User avatar

silentpages

  • Short Story » Fantasy, General Re: Bloom

    I think this story has potential... It's got some interesting elements to it. Her crazy, serial killer mom, who tried to kill her brother. This new school. The kiss that ...

    Aug 28, 2011
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: Winged Prologue

    "She picked up the music box her father had given her on her 4th birthday" -- Woah, woah, woah. Wait a second. Last I checked, we were in the midst ...

    Aug 28, 2011
  • Short Story » Fantasy, General Re: Possessing Maya

    Your review, my dear. ^^ Congratulations again on winning my blog contest. You deserve it. :) Disclaimer: Reviewing makes me sarcastic. And attemptively witty. And occasionally snarky. XD And I ...

    Aug 20, 2011
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: Trapped - Chapter 1

    "The cold night air raced past me as we moved against each other." Who's 'We'? Her and the night air, or is there another person present? "I was falling from ...

    Aug 10, 2011
  • Novel / Chapter » Action / Adventure, General Re: A Country on Edge-Chapter 1

    "Arthur awoke the next morning, his alarm clock blaring." Since we've changed perspectives, it sounds a bit odd to say 'the next morning'. I think you could just as well ...

    Aug 9, 2011
  • Novel / Chapter » Action / Adventure, General Re: Prologue: A Country on Edge

    Not a bad start. ^^ My notes going through: Most people would turn around when they hear a scream... You say that Drew doesn't because he knows what's happening already, ...

    Aug 9, 2011
  • Short Story » General, General Re: The She-King

    It's a good description... But it's just that. A description. Is this for a contest or something, where it needs to be 150 words? Because otherwise, I would suggest expanding ...

    Aug 8, 2011
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: Lady No Soul (1)

    "Behind the mist my breath makes on the glass, the colours of the dress blur together; pink and white silk and lace trimmings smearing like the paints in a watercolour." ...

    Jul 30, 2011
  • Short Story » Romantic, General Re: Circle

    Dude. I love this song. XD My notes going through: "Maybe I would’ve managed today too if it weren’t for the fact that I’d done the same for the past ...

    Jul 30, 2011
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: In the House with Chicken Feet (5)

    "or the baba'll throw you to the fishes." Ambassador fishes? 8D Something I forgot to say in my last review was how much I like the new information we're getting ...

    Jun 26, 2011
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: Eden's Star (Chapter 2)

    "Mouths passed and seasons soon changed, with no sigh of Seth since that warm summer night. It was now fall and Alex had spent every night on the roof in ...

    Jun 26, 2011
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: In the House with Chicken Feet (4)

    "every single time." Every single time what? When more ambassadors come, when she notices his scar, when they part ways? Tua interests me. :) Is his narrative supposed to be ...

    Jun 26, 2011
  • Novel / Chapter » Fanfiction, General Re: Eden's Star (Chapter 1)

    I'm seeing a lot of telling in this, along with some passive language. "It was sunset in London." Show us the fading day, and the colors, and the London skyline ...

    Jun 26, 2011
  • Short Story » Fantasy, General Re: Words on Paper, Flesh on Bone

    "I was born in a hospital in Washington," This isn't really something she would remember, is it? She can say it, yeah, but it feels weird to have it right ...

    Jun 25, 2011
  • Short Story » Science Fiction, General Re: System Push (REVISED)

    "what it looks like from the inside when a skyscraper is stuck in a cloud." Skyscrapers don't really move, so can they really be stuck? The cloud could be stuck ...

    Jun 25, 2011


I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
— Pablo Neruda