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A Peice of A Love Story (untitled at the moment) ;)



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Mon Apr 07, 2008 10:35 pm
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~Ello, Ello Lovely's =-) This is a piece of a love story I wrote. If it were to be a book it would be the first page or first chapter of the story. I'm not exactly sure if I should finish the story or if I do how should I go about doing it? Critiques, suggestions, and ideas would be much appreciated. :D ( I probably don't have to tell you any of this, since everyone does that already, you'll have to excuse me I'm a newbie xD )~
ZOMYGOODNESS! some ideas for titles would be off the charts rad as well, if you don't me using them if I choose to do so.

"Excuse me Miss, you can come in now."
A sutle voice just merely over a whisper led me down the hall of endless florescent lighting. I slowly lifted my head above an old magazine. I stopped kicking into the shag carpeting and began to walk into the broken cave of hostility. One would say I've been here two times too many. One would say I come here apathetically against my will, or simply to please only one person never caring about the brokenness around me. The aroma of sickness filled the air and found it's way to my nostrils. I didn't even have to take a second glance to know the pain sealed in these walls. It was as if every person that was there, for whatever reason, was all crying out for the one same reason the whole place cried out for. If depression was a scent, it wouldn't dare lurk any place but here.

I finally reached the last room at the end of the hall. The nurse led me in with her hypocritical warm smile, like I was walking into a bakery or something, instead of a patients room. I gazed down at the face I once knew below me. An unbarring tension built up inside me that was now running rapidly through my veins. Right then and there I wanted to give him the world, I wanted to give him a river he could splash in while feeling the crisp wind brush between his fingers and whisper in his ear. I was reaching for a disappearing star, I knew it was there looking down on me. I wanted to touch it, I wanted to grasp it, I wanted to take it down from the sky and hug it close to me. The stars were starting to sleep, and the sun was waking up. I felt there was no hope in me ever reaching that star. Awkwardly, at the same time, I had to keep reaching for it no matter what. As I thought about all of this, he blankly stared up at me. His face was no different then the white wall behind him.

Every story begins with words. Every song begins with a rhythm. Every dream begins with an imagination. Every thought begins with a soul. To hear my rhythm, to read my words, to see my dreams, and to feel my soul I'd have to take you back to the beginning. Back before any of this even happened. Back to the memories so close in the distance. I'd have to freeze time itself, draw in a deep breath, and trace back to the very first footstep.
  





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Mon Apr 07, 2008 11:08 pm
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A sutle voice just merely over a whisper led me down the hall of endless florescent lighting.

Yet somehow she's still sitting? Don't be so abstract, it takes away more than it adds in this case.

Overall, reading this short piece...it felt awkward. Like, have you ever been around somebody who was trying so hard to fit in that they just didn't? Well, with this it seemed like you were trying so hard to sound thoughfull and deep that you just...didn't. No offence. It seemed overdone, a little cliche, and didn't have any stroy in it that I could find.

Even thought it's just the beginning there are still several things you have to add to make it a true story.

Give us a character, a real character. Right now, whoever it is seems so abstract that she isn't real to me yet. She's in a hospital, tell me why. There are ways to tell the story without giving away the plot, it's not easy, but if you think about it, I'm sure you'll find a way.

Give me a story to read. A scene, some emotion from the character herself, thoughts, anything to make it seem real. After all, have you ever not been you, not had feelings or thoughts? I somehow doubt that's possible, so why should your character be able to do it.

You have a good skeleton of what could be great, so fill it in a bit. A prologue doesn't have to be short. Don't worry about breaking the rules a bit, that's half the fun ;)

-JC
But that is not the question. Why we are here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in this immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come. -Beckett
  








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