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  • Fantasy Novels Re: Dragon Fire

    This was good start; you have some good description and your character is quite realistic. I can't wait to see where this is going. So, here is what I am ...

    Mar 27, 2007
  • Fantasy Novels Re: The Dragon Shield/ Chapter One (rewrite)

    You have a good start here, but I feel like in the first paragraph, you just told me all about King Thane. If your intent was as Meep suggested, to ...

    Mar 26, 2007
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Favourite Fantasy Writer

    Robin Hobb Indefinitely, the writer who has inspired me most. The first book of her Farseer Trilogy was the best, if you ask me, and I simply adore her writing ...

    Mar 24, 2007
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Prologues?

    I like prologues, especially when they include symbolic language or poetry, but I really hate them when they are massive information dumps. I like them much better when they are ...

    Mar 24, 2007
  • Official Polls Re: What do you use when writing?

    I usually use the keyboard, but if there is not keyboard near, definitely pen. I don't trust myself with pencils. I'm such a horrible perfectionist that I end up erasing ...

    Mar 24, 2007
  • Action/Adventure Novels Re: Little Terrorists

    This was pretty good. Your description of action sequences is very crisp and good (which I admire. I am awful at writing actions sequences), and the way you set up ...

    Mar 24, 2007
  • Action/Adventure Short Stories Re: The Rural Ruins

    As DQ mentioned, this needs to be divided into paragraphs. I understand this is a rough draft, but it is extremely aggravating to read this piece if it is not ...

    Mar 24, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Time intervals!

    There are many different methods that work, but the one I prefer is mentioning that x amount of years have gone by within the first few paragraphs. Not necessarily first ...

    Mar 22, 2007
  • Fantasy Novels Re: The Beginning, Chapter 1

    This was a quite good first chapter. You introduce your primary character masterfully and give us some good glimpsese into her personality. This is well-written. The one overarching thing that ...

    Mar 20, 2007
  • Fantasy Novels Re: Prologue of my book

    Hello! Welcome to YWS! You have some good ideas here, so I'm going to give you a few things to work on. You're major problem here is that you have ...

    Mar 20, 2007
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Aging fingers

    As Firestarter has mentioned, I think a fresher outlook would greatly improve this poem. I noticed throughout the poem that you are very fond of similes. Now, I have nothing ...

    Mar 19, 2007
  • Action/Adventure Short Stories Re: Gabrion Skies

    This is the first thing I have posted in a long, long time ~ Gabrion Skies Diluted ink in the form of black rain bled across the canvas of night ...

    Mar 19, 2007
  • Action/Adventure Short Stories Re: Fugitive

    This is pretty good. As BlackDove, said your word choice is very crisp. Your writing style is very intuitive and I am impressed by how much of the character you ...

    Mar 19, 2007
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Which authors/books do you hate?

    Unlike most, I really like Dickens. :D One of the many authors that I really hate thus far is Dee Henderson, namely for her work The Protector. Her entire focus ...

    Oct 27, 2006
  • Action/Adventure Short Stories Re: Forgotten Memories

    Fascinating... you do a masterful job of pulling us into the character so the reader immediately gets a feel for your narrator, which is very good. I love how you ...

    Oct 11, 2006


Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
— Alfred North Whitehead