Published December 28, 2007
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In the future, please don't use attachments for your work, okay?
But I got the download to work, so here's your critique:
This sentence doesn't work grammatically, I'm afraid. I think you should try something like: The ghostly moon shone brightly in the midnight sky. The trees swayed violently in the threatening wind, and a figure cloaked in black waited in the trees.
Here are some articles about prose and rhythm/sentence structuring:
• http://www.fictionfactor.com/articles/style.html
• http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/sentences.htm
• http://www.achievementtech.com/files/OR_Writing.pdf
With such grace that what? When you say something like 'such [insert word here]' you generally need to include....oh rats, I don't know how to explain it. >.< But here's an example:
He smiled with such warmth that she felt as if a miniature sun had come to earth.
Yeah, I know it's cheesy, but I hope you get the point.
This is a bit garbled...I must clarify:
He's thinking, 'why use the door when I can climb walls'. Well, those phrases should look like this:
When he figured how stupid he was, he thought, why use the door when I can climb walls?
Thoughts usually go in italics. You savvy?
There should be a semi-colon or a colon after 'incredible', and the second sentence doesn't make sense. It would if you were writing in 1rst person, but you're not, so you should just get rid of that sentence.
I've already reviewed this whole bit; you can see it here if you haven't already: topic23851.html. (Mine is the most recent critique.)
It would take me forever (or a very long time, like all night. Not be rude or anything) to point out and fix every sentence structuring mistake I've seen here. That's why I've underlined them all; hopefully you'll be able to fix them using the links I've posted, among other resources.
There is also many other occasions where you've used an odd word in your sentences, or said something taht doesn't make sense. I've pointed them out below:
Isn't Jessica's brother called James? I'm sooo confused. This whole part of the story is very garbled.
Also, no offense or anything, but that seems like a very stupid thing to scream before killing someone. Just something to consider.
I believe it should be 'with frightening speed'. Also, this is a very long run-on sentence. You can fix it by saying this instead: James sprang to his feet and lunged with frightening speed at the blond man, His hands gripped around his neck and twisted until it snapped like a twig, leaving the man to crumple to the floor. The other hunters gasped in shock and lunged at James, but he dived for the crossbow and gripped the handle. The rest was easy.
Unfortunately, there are other run-ons in this story. Here are some links that [I hope] will help you fix them:
• http://www.northstar.k12.ak.us/schools/ ... rbrule.htm
• http://faculty.washington.edu/davidgs/Prose.html
Okay, firstly, you need to have two quotation marks. You can't just have one.
Secondly, the N in 'not' needs to be capitalized.
And thirdly, this doesn't seem like a very appropriate thing to shout, once again. >.<
Why did you write it twice?
I'm afraid that this needs a ton of work. You've made numerous mistakes in both the grammatical and punctuation aspects of literacy, and your ideas aren't very interesting or original. Sorry for the harshness, but I hate lying in critiques. And you'd never improve if people just said 'Great work! Keep writing!' all the time, would you?
As much as I'd like to discuss your ideas, I haven't the time and you'll probably already have fallen asleep reading this insanely long critique. But if you want idea help, PM me and I'll see what I can do.
Never give up!
- Camille
Where is it?
Ah, it's a download. Why, though? Usually, people only have those in the 'Advanced Critiques' forum.
Well...I was going to critique it, but the download won't work. Why don't you just post it the way everyone else does?
any ideas for what?
Err... it's not showing up... ?