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  • Short Story » General, Fantasy Re: Bold Kings

    Thanks for the review, it was very helpful! It was a great pick on "sufficiently procreative". I think I'll rework it as "fertile" which speaks back into the gardeness's profession. ...

    Mar 1, 2016
  • Short Story » Fantasy, Action / Adventure Re: The Failing Light; Part One

    There is no virtue in treating everyone equally badly, and you will never be thanked for it. I would welcome an honest review on your part. Regards, Rubric

    Oct 20, 2015
  • Short Story » Fantasy, Action / Adventure Re: The Failing Light; Part One

    I'm not sure you're aware, but I can see your reviews, even the one's you deleted, under the "review" tab on your wall. I can therefore see that of the ...

    Oct 20, 2015
  • Short Story » Fantasy, Action / Adventure Re: The Failing Light; Part One

    Turning getting caught cheating on reviews into an uninvited attempt to evangelise has to be one of the most disrespectful, if audacious, things I have ever seen on YWS. Thank ...

    Oct 20, 2015
  • Short Story » Narrative, Fantasy Re: Diary of a Deicide, Part One.

    Thanks a lot for the review, it was very helpful. The comments about adding dates and more description in that specific mural/garden comment were particularly insightful, I'll take that forward ...

    Feb 12, 2015
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Eventide

    Also, the whole thing about Blodwyn being a sailor/ship captain confused be greatly. Is a lighthouse keeper usually on their own like that? It seems very irresponsible for such a ...

    Apr 26, 2013
  • Novel / Chapter » Horror, Science Fiction Re: Love Like Clockwork 2

    I apologise for taking so long to get to this. University commitments and such. I must say I adore your style, and am loving your characterisation; the constable and narrator ...

    Sep 5, 2012
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, Action / Adventure Re: Enslaved. Chapter 1 Scene 1.

    Thanks for your feedback, it's both specific and detailed. Arvad's character will develop over time but I may have tried to cut back too much. I was trying to put ...

    May 28, 2012
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, Action / Adventure Re: Enslaved. Chapter 1 Scene 1.

    It may come up later, but the father was essentially a representative of the village, which has to pay a tribute of slaves to the Ulusami nomads. The reasons for ...

    May 28, 2012
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, Action / Adventure Re: Enslaved. Chapter 1 Scene 1.

    Scene 2 is here:

    May 28, 2012
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: The Dark World Chapter 1-Indect Reasoning

    Testing

    May 25, 2012
  • Short Story » Fantasy, General Re: That awkward moment just before you go into a magic world.

    Thanks for the input guys! I *may* have written it at five am after just having walked home and a bit drunk, so it's a bit stream-of-consciousness. That's why there's ...

    Jun 23, 2010
  • Short Story » Fantasy, General Re: A city dies

    Thanks SaraAnne and everyone else who reviewed this work! At the moment I'm considering it to be an epilogue for Exiles, though it could find itself being a prologue for ...

    Nov 1, 2008
  • Other » General, General Re: An experiment in indirect speech.

    Thanks Meevs! I've always been interested in (and appalled by) how the West deals with moderns genocide. I would love to write about it, but don't think I have the ...

    Oct 20, 2008
  • Short Story » Historical Fiction, General Re: Last stand during the Warsaw Uprising

    You're right about the Vistula, as the uprising went from August until October, the Vistula's state would have been common knowledge. I kind of imagined it being the scout taking ...

    Aug 10, 2008


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