Hello! Morrigan here to review your piece!
First of all, this seems very personal, so it will be difficult for me to review. Since you posted this as a literary work, I am assuming you want suggestions for refinements so it can be read by an audience. That's what I will do!
Wow, you don't wade in to the deep end at all, do you? I appreciate the progression in this piece from bad to Bad to BAD to rebirth, however it can be difficult for a reader to accept a narrator who, right off the bat, is wallowing in their own poor decisions. I recommend writing the beginning a little more gently so readers aren't slapped in the face and turned off by the bluntness of your prose.
Let's talk about passive voice. Please take a look at the first post in this thread, which contains a definition and great way to fix passive voice: Passive Voice
Now one thing that post doesn't mention is that you don't always have to have "by" and then the subject at the end. The subject can be nothing mentioned in the sentence. One good test one of my professors always liked to use is that if you can add "by zombies" to the end of any sentence and have it make sense, it's in passive voice.
I allowed bad things to be done to us [by zombies],
I found an example of passive voice in your piece. One way you could fix it is to say,
Bad things happened to us, and I allowed it.
Make sure you're on the lookout for passive voice!
You start the first four paragraphs with I. This can create a feeling of repetition that might not be intentional, so try restructuring a few of those opening sentences to create a nicer variety for the reader.
This is a cliche. Cliches are bad because while they might have held power or imagery the first time they were uttered, they now mean a singular thing. The reader skips over this in their mind, and any imagery included in the cliche is lost.the devil in disguise
I am a little unsure why you put this into the short story category. I feel like it would fit better under "other," since it's a letter to yourself.
I hope that this review proves useful to you! Hopefully this letter brought you healing! Let me know if you have any questions, and happy YWSing!
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