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Re: A Crappy Bus Trip
Hi there. My first suggestion to you is going to be to work on your syntax. The majority of your sentences are '[noun/pronoun] [action/thought]' beginnings, and the sentence length remains, ...
Mar 19, 2016 -
Re: Coffins
Hi. I'm going to make this short. I like how you've used end-stopped lines; they create the appearance of imprisonment, which echoes the whole 'we-are-trapped-in-coffins' message pretty well. The poem
Mar 18, 2016 -
Re: I Will Never Forget
Hi there. I saw this was under 'historical fiction', and because I have a profound love for this genre, you're going to have to deal with my yammering here. I ...
Mar 17, 2016 -
Re: Thrallmagic: Chapter 12
It's been a while. Hello~ PRINCE ALEXANDER is such a hottie gets a scene! On that note, I'm not sure how I like him as a character. There have been ...
Mar 13, 2016 -
Re: Elodie Bones: Prologue
Hello~ Pomp here to review, as promised. Sorry for the delay! Also, my apologies if this review comes off as harsh in any sense; that is not my intention. The ...
Mar 12, 2016 -
Re: The August Province - 1.2
Hey, love. Happy Review Day~ I think I'll start out by saying that I adore your narrative voice--it's not just quirky, it's strong, and it has a diluted Huckleberry Finn ...
Feb 28, 2016 -
Re: Thrallmagic: Chapter 11
I am back! I shall take this chance to reprimand you for not getting your LMS in yet (although I haven't either, so yes, maybe it is a little hypocritical ...
Feb 28, 2016 -
Re: Heavens Calling to the Earth
Your images skid into one another and there is not enough breathing space. I like the imagery you employ, but you need to scatter it out and be selective. Commas ...
Feb 22, 2016 -
Re: Ah! Shingles! (editing in progress)
Hi there! Pomp here for a review. I'll be reviewing as I read, with a general summation of my thoughts on this at the end. Please bear with me. On ...
Feb 22, 2016 -
Re: Untitled Novel : [Chapter 3: Somewhat Vegetarian]
I liked this chapter, so I don't really have much to say here. I think this is the best instalment by far--the prose has this quiet honesty to it, and ...
Feb 20, 2016 -
Re: Daddys Greif
Yo, Pasta. Welcome to YWS~ I'm going to make this quick. There's a typo in the title. 'Greif' should be 'grief'. Thanks for mentioning in your author's note that this ...
Feb 17, 2016 -
Re: When it was you, me, and the sea
Hi there. Welcome to YWS! You have a good sense of internal rhyme, but it's not working out in this poem, simply because the rigid scheme of rhyming in couplets ...
Feb 15, 2016 -
Re: Thrallmagic: Chapter 10
Hi there. Right! So I meant to review this earlier, but didn't--partly because I really can't think straight these days, and partly because THIS IS GETTING VERY INTERESTING and ... ...
Feb 15, 2016 -
Re: Days of January- Chapter One
Hey there. I saw chapter two skulking around in the Green Room and figured I'd skim through chapter one first. ('Course, that ended in me reading all the way through, ...
Feb 6, 2016 -
Re: Thrallmagic: Chapter 9
Yo, back again. Again, not much to add here that hasn't been said already. Your writing's acquired a fluidity and the voice is strong--the only actual complaint I have is ...
Feb 5, 2016
