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  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: View from the Crack in the Wall

    Much agreed with Wooster's critique of your wordiness and your "I'm sure you can imagine" stuff. The forty-plus sleepless hours showing like a broadway musical on my face. ...What? The ...

    Mar 7, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: From the Ashes

    [Thanks for reading]

    Mar 4, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Can We Still Be Friends? (After This)

    Major points: First: "The End." Don't say that, unless you mean it ironically, like you're spoofing an old-timey movie that usually says "The End" with a positive feeling. If you ...

    Mar 3, 2011
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Character Description

    Don Matteo was no Don Juan, as much as he wished. He was more of a Don Quixote. He lived on the shore of reality, sometimes dipping his feet into ...

    Mar 2, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Short Story UPDATED

    Pretty good. Your general foundation is good, so I won't bother with the little things. Pain courses through every inch of my body like a wild fire Just a bit ...

    Feb 28, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Barbara

    First off: It's customers, not costumers. I was about halfway through the story when I realized it wasn't Halloween and no one was wearing costumes. So proofread. Even if it ...

    Feb 28, 2011
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Character Description

    First person, past tense...anecdote/story as description? ---------------------------------- Obviously, his name wasn't John Fist. That would just be stupid--like a hot-tempered, loose cannon detectiv

    Feb 28, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: The Time of Goliath

    Well, in general, an interesting story. Your spelling and grammar and story direction were good, but there are some overarching problems that I'll discuss. 1) It reads as extremely formal. ...

    Feb 25, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Purple World

    This isn't a story. It's a list. A list of reasons why you like to wear purple-tinted glasses. I like the "Hello Darling" part. Then everything after that is just...well, ...

    Feb 25, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: The Fisherman

    Just a suggestion for the opening paragraph of his story. I assume the narrator wants to make it suspenseful. You can use line breaks to this effect. It would also ...

    Feb 17, 2011
  • General Articles Re: Musings on the Fourth Dimension

    I took way too long to write that -_-

    Feb 4, 2011
  • General Articles Re: Musings on the Fourth Dimension

    Some thoughts. So I think what one of your basic assumptions is that Dimensions are independent. That you can exist in a higher dimension without existing in a lower dimension. ...

    Feb 4, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Helpless

    First and foremost: Paragraphs. Use paragraphs. Times to use paragraphs include: 1) When different people speak. "What's wrong with your face?" (some time later) "Fight fight fight" (later still) "Why

    Feb 3, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: L'Hiver Approche (1/3)

    The opening paragraph is great. Hook line and sinker. Present tense, second person narrative. You're tiptoeing a fine line between bold/daring and making me annoyed. For the most part, it ...

    Feb 2, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: The Nature of Change

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    Feb 2, 2011


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