Merricat

Alright here is the first part to chapter two. It turned out longer than I thought it would. Now, I just thought I'd let you all know that I really, ...

Earlier critiques caught most of the grammar stuff, so I won't rehash that. I am curious about two things: 1) How old are the brothers? They sound like fairly young ...

Hiya! No major critiques yet, just some minor nitpicks. (I'm mostly reading this so I'll be ready for the latest chapter you posted.) The fountain’s water rippled. The man leaning ...

Yay, more writing! Keep an eye out for anachronisms: "circus freaks" and "milk chocolate" are both fairly modern concepts, so it's unlikely a medieval fantasy world character would use those ...

Nice start! I'd love more information about the world and the characters to anchor myself, though -- you throw a lot of names and a lot of plot at me ...

It was definitely not illegal -- I don't know a lot about American female novelists, but Jane Austen published her novels in the early 1800s, and the Brontes published their ...

Hiya! Music_lover took care of most of the grammatical corrections I was going to suggest, so I won't rehash them. I will comment that sometimes your sentence structures were repetitive ...

9. Have children, but don't get married Haha, I thought I was the only one. I always daydream about having children, but those daydreams never involve a serious romantic partner. ...

I don't think it'll do any harm to start researching publishing while you're in the final leg of editing, and start making a list of agents and publishers who might ...

Have any of you three actually finished a book? That tried and true method is usually standard issue, but for those who have trouble writing a book the best bet ...

Neil Gaiman's got a great essay about ideas and inspiration here: Novels are really long and complex, which means that they're hard to write. If you don't have an idea ...

Second person is tricky because it's such an unusual style that it draws attention to itself, instead of letting the reader focus on the story. Really good second person is ...

Any books I want to read, I want to read before I die. That's all there is to it. If I've got to be undead, I intend to spend eternity ...

DLD: Last night I was having the same problem (only with a short story, instead of a novel). Finally, I ended up starting the story in the middle of the ...

My other favorite recent "remix/travesty of famous literary works":