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  • Short Story » General, General Re: How they are all moving on…

    All in all, what you have here is a journal entry, not a story. Unfortunately, we're looking for a story here: exposition, conflict, resolution. But all you have here is ...

    Oct 4, 2011
  • Short Story » General, General Re: On The Adolescent Transformation Out Of Restlessness

    Well, since I don't understand much in the way of plot from this little bit, I'll focus my comment on voice. Indeed, the syntax is odd, but not unwelcome. There's ...

    Oct 3, 2011
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Flora

    Dialogue punctuation. Proper punctuation for dialogues goes like this (and using your single quotation mark, instead of my usual double): 'This is dialogue,' he said. 'And this is dialogue!' she ...

    Sep 30, 2011
  • Short Story » General, General Re: The painter

    I'm going to focus on nitpicks, because there are a lot of little things that we need to work through before we get to the grander scheme. The nights stride ...

    Sep 27, 2011
  • Short Story » General, General Re: A Sense of Decay

    So color me confused. Your general narration (that is, when you discuss exposition and the narrator's thoughts and personality) is quite good. When talking about the grandma, the narrator's hobbies, ...

    Sep 27, 2011
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Folded Up

    So what's there to say? Hmm...probably not too much. This is a very good, thoughtful piece, laden with emotion. Each sentence reads like a sleepy memoir or a wistful epitaph. ...

    Sep 26, 2011
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Empty

    Aww. The emotion was very good. My 16-year-old cat (known for 15 years) died about 4 years ago. I was away at college at the time, but my dad told ...

    Sep 23, 2011
  • Short Story » General, General Re: The painting, the frame and the little things

    Very good writing here, sir. The first paragraph is solid. Establishes mood, the narrator's state of mind, and--even with just that one, first sentence--we're given some insight to "the girl." ...

    Sep 21, 2011
  • Short Story » Science Fiction, General Re: Professor Morgenstern

    Ha HA! Fantastic. It's so wild yet so dark, it's like Grimm's Sci-Fi Fairy Tales. anything is possible with enough time and resources. Then he invented his Matter Converter, and ...

    Sep 19, 2011
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Dreams in Red

    The descriptions are good and thorough, but it often feels like you're describing the same thing or the same kinds of actions, that it begins to feel redundant and like ...

    Sep 16, 2011
  • Short Story » General, General Re: All the People We Loved

    Until I met her I was the kind of guy to roll down his window and start yelling at the other drivers for not driving the way I wanted them ...

    Sep 15, 2011
  • Novel / Chapter » General, General Re: Fog - Part 10/10

    May I give an "in-summary" review instead of 10 little ones? 1) Use contractions more. It's really jarring when they're intense or panicking and they say, "We will do this" ...

    Sep 13, 2011
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Loyalties

    First: Dialogue punctuation. Check out this website. It pretty much contains everything you need to know about punctuating dialogue properly. Go back through and find any and all instances like: ...

    Sep 13, 2011
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Good Boy

    Pretty goood. Pretty good. *clicks follow* Some general comments. 1) I know it might be because we only know as much as the main character, but I just feel like ...

    Sep 6, 2011
  • Short Story » General, General Re: 313

    Just going to give my overall thoughts and impressions, because line-by-line, the story arc is good. I do enjoy the ending very much, how their grudge manifests into wrestling over ...

    Sep 4, 2011


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