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  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: Hate You for Loving You

    I think the best way to go about handling this poem -- the concept of lost love and betrayal is so rife with emotion it can always be used for ...

    Nov 26, 2010
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: We Fall Upon Deaf Ears

    Hello! I found this lacking. I got nothing out of reading this. Poetry has the special ability to draw a unique emotional response. However, this elicited no emotional response. the ...

    Apr 25, 2010
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: The End

    Hello! Matt Bellemy mentioned semi colons. I'll address those first. They are basically a conjunction and a comma; they combine two sentences (independent clauses) together without the extra words. No

    Feb 27, 2010
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: uriel prologue and chapter 1

    I am going to be brutal. Consider it tough love, because this needs it. This is in a similar place as the other piece of yours that I reviewed today. ...

    Feb 13, 2010
  • Novel / Chapter » Romantic, General Re: Nemesis Chapter 2 (edited)

    Hello again! I'm looking forward to getting to critique something all the way through its development as a piece of writing [bounces] Okay, on to the critique. Unfortunately, this wasn't ...

    Feb 13, 2010
  • Novel / Chapter » Romantic, General Re: Nemesis Chapter 1

    Hello! I usually don't stumble into the romance forum, but I figured, it is Romance Fiction week, so I may as well. and I stumbled into this. I agree with ...

    Feb 13, 2010
  • Novel / Chapter » Science Fiction, General Re: That time again chapter prologue and chapter 1

    Unfortunately I did not finish reading the first chapter. I couldn't. It wasn't engaging. Truth be told, as a reader I found it unbearably annoying. The reason I tell you ...

    Feb 12, 2010
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: loving, hating and missing u

    Hello, xoxo! My first bit of advice for this is to proof read. You have some grammatical typos and spelling mistakes that could easily be fixed by running it through ...

    Feb 7, 2010
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: I Wish it Hadn't Happened

    This has it's own value as an autobiographical account of girl-betrayal. However, as a piece of poetry it has a long way to go. It reads more like a diary ...

    Feb 7, 2010
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: Void

    Hello! I think this poem shows potential, but it's not quite there yet. The major thing it's missing is imagery. You have hints of it at the end, with the ...

    Feb 7, 2010
  • Lyrics » General, General Re: Found

    The major problem is not that it's over done. This lyric has potential -- you have an ear for sounds and rhythm -- but everything about it seems forced. I ...

    Feb 6, 2010
  • Short Story » Fantasy, General Re: The Perfect Fairytale

    Roflcopter. I found this incredibly amusing, and there's no one really obvious problem with it. What I did notice is that it feels like it's missing something, and it's hard ...

    Oct 29, 2008
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Beautiful and frozen

    The spacing strikes me as odd. Not the format, but the way you've spaced your lines and stanzas. They're so spread out! Grammar: You can choose whether or not to ...

    Aug 26, 2008
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: Summer Waking; Chapter One

    Hi! I'm going to critique this as I read. So, critique ahoy! The morning was a quiet one, the forest only beginning to awaken. The sun crept lazily over the ...

    Aug 23, 2008
  • Short Story » Romantic, General Re: The story of the unnamed full

    Hi, Spike! Before I start, most people make two critiques before they post their own work. You should probably do that too. I agree with Clograbby, it was very wordy, ...

    Jun 18, 2008


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