Symmetry's Illusion: Prologue

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Just the prologue to my almost-finished novel. May seem a bit...rough ^^'. Any comments or sugguestions are welcome and will be of use! And could you see this as an actual hold-in-your-hands novel? Thank you in advance!

this has been deleted. thanks again for you help, people!
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Apologies for the bump but I just wanted to say that any comments are welcome. I will be satisfied even with a "This Sucks", if it really does. I'm not sure if no comments means"ew, I don't even know where to start with this" or that it just doesn't sound interesting. Too many babies have been pinched TT-TT
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Especially during autumn nights
-- i would take this out,

This night
-- say: tonight instead of this night

Hardly audible over the crashing water was a gentle,
yet heartless sound.
-- what exactly do you mean by heartless? I think that words awkward in this context
Someone was waking through water.
walking instead of waking
If anyone had taken the time to look that night, they would’ve seen black, and only black--- black water, black sky, and a tall black figure slowly stepping into the river.
-- take out if anyone. Say instead. Everything was black, the black water, a black sky, and a tall black silhouette steeping into the river

Only a trained night eye could have spotted the little breeze that ruffled the figure very slightly.
instead of figure, say trees or something else
The cascading cloak it wore was blown backwards for one fleeting second, and revealed the frame of a tall, slender woman, a flash of her thin auburn hair hardly visible.
say: the frame of a tall slender woman with a flash of thin auburn hair.
When the windstorm
-- i didn't really get the feeling that this was a windstorm
But this figure was different. The first had been just that---a figure. This new one had a chilling aura around it, an aura considerably dark, and the sophisticated poise I held was almost eerie.
-- i think you mean the sophisticated poise it held




Wait is the witness the pair of children or no? That sort of confused me so you might want to talk more about it. I loved it. Maybe a little too much description but other than that I thought it was great. I'm hooked. I would have done more corrections if I had more time. Anyway well, done. remember two things
1) Always cut down on adverbs
2) show don't tell
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Ooh! I like this! Especially this part...

The Aris ran deep for several hundreds of miles, mild, emerald. Very rarely did it stir, its dully rippling waves usually tinged with the unwavering glow of the moon. Especially during autumn nights, the river would lay still, lazily content, reflecting moonlight in a perfect ring until it was time to make way for morning.

But this was a night like no other.

This night, the Aris churned with contempt, black waves rising, fraying, falling like rain. There was no moon, no benign gleam in its center, no tone to the water, just bottomless, unfathomable black.


It's very disciptive and a VERY good start.
I, myself, couldn't find any mistakes...
But, someone with better writing skill than I might be able to
How you ended it makes me want more!
Please continue!

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Wow, thank you everyone! I was starting to give up on ever getting sugguestions XD

I really, really appreciate all your help, and I will take everything into accounts. Thanks again!
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An interesting read for a prologue. I like the description on the first part, although I was a bit confused about your first line. But this is fantasy, so my bad. I did come to terms with it when I reread it along with the second and third ones. ^^

There are typos present though, you need to be extra careful.

The first conversation between the pair was also quite confusing. There was a part wherein I didn't know who was speaking what...

Good luck on your novel!
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This makes me want o read the rest of the novel. I hope you post some. The only critique I have is that it gets a little confusing regarding who is who, but you catch it back up eventually. If you wer going to change anything I'd say to make it more obvious which wman is speaking at any given time. I didn't know which one was Aisya untill you mentiond "The dark haired one".



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