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I think my first recommendation to you would be to read extensively on the Salem witch trials -- read about the victims and the perpetuators, and the circumstances that surrounded ...

I found myself enjoying this story a lot, particularly because you have some clever ideas and neat mythology packed into it. I'm also a bit of sucker for family betrayal, ...

It's hard to tell whether this is the first chapter of a longer work or the first half of a short(ish) story or something similar. No matter what the case ...

I tend to advocate against prologues, mainly because the majority of them are superfluous and kind of dull. This prologue is not particularly an exception to that rule. The first ...

I love your title and enjoyed your occasional nods to Doctor Who-related things, but I found this piece to be all over the place and incoherent. I am all for ...

So I didn't love this, which is a pity because it has lots of my favourite sci-fi flavours, and some really pretty writing to boot. The starred text drove me ...

Tossed in a semi-recent blog entry, got David Foster Wallace (who is this?). David Foster Wallace is the brilliant albeit dense writer of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men and (more ...

In case you haven't seen it already, there's a ridiculous new gadget circling the internuts: I Write Like Copy & paste an excerpt of your writing and it will tell ...

Kitty15/Babanuuk > Whaaaat, there's a TYWC usergroup?

(1) Make your novel fantastic. I'm sure it's great already, but shop it around to various people whose criticisms you trust. And who will be honest , and critical — ...

Okay, seriously, how is Don Mills on this list?! It's barely a place!

1) Can you think of any cool sci-fi fan user names? So far I've only got LaserPhaser22 and 0solarflair0. Everything else sucks so I need something else XD Um, as ...

Hey! I'm just dropping by mid-exam study and I just wanted to quickly(ish) mention a couple of logic things that were bugging me about this story. 1. Commissioner's assistant - ...

Okay, done! Anyone want anything else critiqued?

Hullo, there! Here as requested. I'm going to go through the nitpicky things first and then talk about one or two (or maybe just one) of the issues I had ...