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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
