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  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: The Turquoise Scarab#1 *PUT ON HOLD FOR COMPOSTING*

    Yay! Rohsair finally! :-) Well, here goes: I stumbled, my bare feet slipping and sliding in the desert sand, and stubbed my toe on a hidden rock or pebble. Yelping ...

    Jun 1, 2007
  • Short Story » Science Fiction, General Re: Apathetics

    I loved it! For me, it was like watching a champion figure skater competition, every move graceful and flawless, every piece coming promptly and perfectly after the one before it--bravo! ...

    May 29, 2007
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Desert Rain

    Very much a good poem, darling! It had the rythm and taste of narrative, but you never got stuck on story-like details, you kept the flow going in a very ...

    May 24, 2007
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Thinking of Things Unsaid

    I'll admit it's difficult to get into a short poem, but I found this one especially hard to "click" with. Perhaps try starting out with something that gives us more ...

    May 24, 2007
  • Short Story » General, General Re: A Pillar of Salt

    I enjoyed it - how could I not? - but for some reason I find myself feeling that it promised so much and failed to deliver. I kind of got ...

    May 24, 2007
  • Short Story » Historical Fiction, General Re: Two Paces Wide, Four Paces Long.

    Well, I saw that you had done something in historical fiction, so of course I jumped right over here to see! It is very long, though, and also about one ...

    May 24, 2007
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: The bird in the tree.

    It wasn't so much the repetition itself that bothered me as the fact that you ended three lines with "sorrow." Also, there was a lot of straight-up description here, maybe ...

    May 24, 2007
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: Blooded Ch. 1 - Slightly edited (still a work in progress)

    I started reading it, and your beginning certainly hooked me (though I changed your rating to PG-13, call me old-fashioned but this isn't something I'd want my 12-yr-old sister reading). ...

    May 23, 2007
  • Novel / Chapter » Action / Adventure, General Re: Prolougue =] age 16 and up

    While there's nothing wrong with your story, it does have a lot of what you get with your basic raiding accoung--lotta violence, rolling heads, and yes, ravishing town women. I ...

    May 21, 2007
  • Short Story » Fanfiction, General Re: Prophet

    Personally, I've never played the game and I don't know that much about it, and yet I really did enjoy it! You didn't put too many things in there that ...

    May 21, 2007
  • Article / Essay » Review, General Re: The YWS Recent Books List Nominations

    Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow , both by Orson Scott Card The King of Attolia by Megan Whaelen Turner (also in series: The Thief and The Queen of Attolia ) ...

    May 19, 2007
  • Article / Essay » Review, General Re: Keys To The Kingdom

    Hey, I guess I'd better check these out. My little brother's an avid Garth Nix fan and he's been pestering me to read them for AGES. I always thought they ...

    May 18, 2007
  • Novel / Chapter » Science Fiction, General Re: Genisis - Chapter 1

    Okay, I'm going to have to take this in little chunks. Please know that I crit because I care--I wouldn't even glance at this if I didn't think it was ...

    May 16, 2007
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: College Rule

    Incan, your poetry is not what I'd generally call my style, but I've grown to love it as I love fine wine. I'm afraid I don't have much of a ...

    May 14, 2007
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: Compilation: The Variety of Me

    I read the first poem, really liked it, started to read the second and thought "what the heck, what does this have to do with sirens?" It would be really ...

    May 13, 2007


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