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  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: The Turquoise Scarab#2 *PUT ON HOLD FOR COMPOSTING*

    You tend to use very long sentences... see the second paragraph for an example. Which is fine, in moderation. Short sentences help to break things up so they don't become ...

    Jul 16, 2007
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: The Turquoise Scarab#1 *PUT ON HOLD FOR COMPOSTING*

    I like the second language additions, and especially how you've added a glossary at the end; very helpful. Did you make the language up yourself? Oh, the poem at the ...

    Jul 16, 2007
  • Short Story » Romantic, General Re: Pianist

    First off, I'd suggest going through and editing out for wordiness. Sometimes that alone can clear up many problems. For example, in the first paragraph or so: It came, sometimes, ...

    Jul 15, 2007
  • Novel / Chapter » Action / Adventure, General Re: Kismet #3...flagged for deletion

    Things I've mentioned in other chapters still apply, like info blocks and such. Yeah, it's a bit of an odd chapter, but no worries. That's what makes it fun to ...

    Jul 15, 2007
  • Novel / Chapter » Action / Adventure, General Re: Kismet #2...flagged for deletion

    I found Sitar wandering around moonily . No doubt he’d gone into the city that surrounds my offices, and found some girl at his favorite haunt. Moonily doesn't give off ...

    Jul 15, 2007
  • Novel / Chapter » Action / Adventure, General Re: Guardian of Heaven Chapter 1

    Things like "Mwahahahahahaha" aren't generally used in a story that isn't intended for satire because they're often too... immature. There are other ways of describing a cackling laugh that will ...

    Jul 15, 2007
  • Novel / Chapter » Action / Adventure, General Re: Guardian of Heaven

    This doesn't seems so much a story as a plot outline in prose format. Take ideas like "This guardian angel will try to save the moon child" and flesh them ...

    Jul 15, 2007
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Duncan: Superdog

    You really don't need all that stuff at the beginning. Maybe a brief comment about the grammar thing, but I was so bored by the end, I almost didn't read ...

    Jul 14, 2007
  • Short Story » General, General Re: John Smith

    The room didn’t even present the option of spoons, with signs like “No Food or Drink,” and the receptionist behind her desk who looked like she was pensively chewing gum ...

    Jul 12, 2007
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Waiting for Tomorrow

    For so many words, I didn't catch a whole lot being said. The last two lines were drifting towards somthing interesting, but what leads up to them was a little ...

    Jul 12, 2007
  • Short Story » General, General Re: A4 White

    I like the style, but it was a little too... intense... for me to read all at once. Too bad you didn't post them in different threads, or it would ...

    Jul 12, 2007
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: Untitled as of now

    Phew. That first sentence was long. I'd suggest taking out some wordiness: "When I saw her, sitting on a bench close to the cafe I was currently sitting in [ ...

    Jul 12, 2007
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: The Weeping Willow

    You repeated the idea of loneliness, and you should use your 17 syllabals to expand on something rather than say the same thing twice. Also, adding some punctuation would be ...

    Jul 11, 2007
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: Child, Child

    I kinda thought you spoiled it by prefacing the poem. I felt pretty disconnected from this poem. Like I had to know you to really get it. "It pains you ...

    Jul 10, 2007
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: Veiled Words

    It seemed to me like the rhyming got in the way; it doesn't seem like the type of poem that needs to rhyme. I liked where you were going with ...

    Jul 10, 2007


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