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  • Novel / Chapter » Action / Adventure, General Re: Zombies Want My Brain, part 1

    Ryan, here to do a quick reveiw. Your writing is beautifully done and I would like to see more. I myself do not see a lot of books about zombies ...

    May 24, 2010
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Blank eye

    You wanted an honest opinion and hear it is: I didn't like this piece too much. The characters lacked substance. You did too much telling rather than showing and there ...

    Jan 23, 2010
  • Short Story » General, General Re: A Woman in the Sun

    I'm having mixed feelings on this one. I like how Janilima is attracted to the beauty of nature, but I can't get into your sentence structure. Use more of a ...

    Jan 22, 2010
  • Novel / Chapter » General, General Re: Jump part 1

    Good concepts. Good ideas. However, I didn't like the way you expressed them. You did more telling than showing. It seems more like a screenplay than a story right now. ...

    Jan 20, 2010
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Red

    Almost perfect. Almost. What keeps me from giving you a perfect ten is how Jeremy's incentive was not included. Granted, this is a longer story, and maybe you haven't gotten ...

    Jan 16, 2010
  • Short Story » Romantic, General Re: Alone

    ....You're missing something here. I can't quite pinpoint it yet, but I think that the plot is astray. You can't feed the readers the same idea for paragraphs on without ...

    Jan 16, 2010
  • Article / Essay » Review, General Re: Worst Book You've Ever Read

    The Final Warning by James Patterson. Oh, the horror! It lacked voice, was too cliche, the plot was totally unrelated to the Maximum Ride series and overall, it was a ...

    Dec 25, 2009
  • Short Story » Romantic, General Re: I've Been Meaning to Tell You

    Not bad. It left me in suspense at "I've been meaning to tell you...." I like how you show that the girl is blind rather than telling. It makes everything ...

    Dec 25, 2009
  • Novel / Chapter » Action / Adventure, General Re: Rise From The Ashes: Prolouge

    Yo RyanX Here: Lets see. The nitpicks are already picked out so i'll talk about the peice itself. It's very descriptive and thats a a plus. It's also Very dramtic. ...

    Dec 20, 2009
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Forever

    Technically, this is a scene and not a story. Anyway add feeling to the persons sorrow by using imagery and diction. Similes and metaphors would also be good to add ...

    Dec 20, 2009
  • Short Story » Action / Adventure, General Re: 1st 3rd person stroy

    This story is confusing, but interesting. Maybe you could change the wording around a bit or give us more description. Who is Mallor? What are these gems? Will he use ...

    Dec 20, 2009
  • Short Story » General, General Re: reversed rewind (standalone)

    On a scale of 1 to 10, I'd give this a 7. For me, it was a nice reading experience,visualizing the main character wandering through NYC and interacting with the ...

    Sep 29, 2009
  • Short Story » General, General Re: abandonment

    I think I see what you're trying to do.It's a different approach to writing I've never seen before.......I LOVE IT! Very clever,especially in the beginning. I like how "we" went ...

    Sep 27, 2009
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Pippa

    AT first when I noticed the short length. I didn't know what to think. I thought you might be one of those writers who try to write some quick garbage ...

    Sep 27, 2009
  • Short Story » General, General Re: The Orphan

    Don't get mad or anything, but this piece is amateur. What all the other reviewers are saying is definitely true. You need more voice, more sentence variety,and a more consistent ...

    Sep 25, 2009


The wince that you wince when you see your quote in the quote generator is quite a wince, I tell ya. To know that the whole YWS community has read and judged your quote is quite an awkward feeling like oh noes. *manly blush*
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