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  • Poetry » Other, General Re: The Dragon's Park

    In the first line, I wasn't expecting it to say "the eternity"; it's usually assumed that there's only one eternity, but if you meant a certain eternity, just disregard the ...

    May 8, 2007
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: Black Water

    No, the continuous metaphor wasn't too much. I like how the sentences/ideas didn't end at the end of the lines because that made it seem smoother to me. The only ...

    May 8, 2007
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Properties of Yeast

    You crawl through the back door and knock on the side of my cell phone. I'm not sure why someone would knock on the side of a cell phone. If ...

    May 8, 2007
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Traveling Light

    Some of the word choices in the lines bothered me; if I had been reading it aloud, I would have tripped on some of these phrases such as "it's exactly ...

    May 7, 2007
  • Short Story » Romantic, General Re: You Are Drowning

    My first thought after finishing this was "that was really sinister" my second thought was "yeah, but I kept reading, didn't I?" :D I liked it; I liked how the ...

    May 6, 2007
  • Short Story » Romantic, General Re: Smile

    What really stuck out for me was how you varied the sentence length (whether consiously or unconsiously), which is good because it keeps the reader engaged in what they're reading. ...

    May 4, 2007
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Thoughts of an Unsound Mind

    Woe, surging like some misbegotten wave, I like the soft sounds of the "s" following woe, then the hard sounds of misbegotten Wrenchingly ripping the limpets Here, I like the ...

    May 4, 2007
  • Article / Essay » General, General Re: A Letter

    I liked it! It made me think, and I really did start noticing things more. My only suggestions are format: if there's specific line breaks, separate paragraphs with a space ...

    Apr 10, 2007
  • Short Story » Action / Adventure, General Re: Gabrion Skies

    This was absolutely wonderful to read. In your first paragraphs, I liked how you mixed very long and very short sentences, it was helpful, drawing the reader back to reality. ...

    Apr 7, 2007
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Story starts

    Lottie, I'm not sure if you meant for each of these to stand alone, or for each to be expanded (I'm assuming it's the second one). I'm also unsure if ...

    Apr 6, 2007
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: Syradrum 1 (Falling)

    Knowing that I was going to die made my mind rush faster than ever before. I could hear the evil voice in the back of my mind saying "You're going ...

    Apr 6, 2007
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: The Seal of Falaurin Chapter 1

    Try to spread out your synnonyms for "said"; a character spits, asserts, rebukes, insists, etc. every paragraph, and it weakens the impact those words can have. The sentence "He had ...

    Apr 5, 2007
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: Untitled

    "Two people out to do only their best. " Hmm, the word "only" tripped me in this line, most because it's another in a quick succession of short, connecting words. ...

    Apr 3, 2007
  • Novel / Chapter » General, General Re: Prosthesis #17 /P

    Okay, so I skipped a few chapters (twelve or thirteen, actually) but this was right there, on the YWS homepage, and I liked the first line, so I read the ...

    Apr 3, 2007
  • Novel / Chapter » General, General Re: Prosthesis #4 /P

    My only complaint about this bit was that you used the pronoune "he" to start most of your sentences, and it was forboding for the first paragraph you used it ...

    Apr 3, 2007


There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
— William Shakespeare