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