Hello. This is my review.
Is there really a minister of sports in Australia? I don’t think there is here in the just okay U. S. Of A., if there is, I don’t know about him/her (which, considering most of the leadership here in America seems to make the news because they are complete nincompoops, I think I should be thankful that I don’t know). Starting with the good, this was a very funny satire with some excellent caricaturing reminiscent of political cartoons, I especially liked the how you portrayed the sports minister as a commentator, I also liked this little bit: “David groves, minister of agriculture, let out a small sob “not the agapanthus’s”” (sidenote: did you intentionally make his last name agriculture related?). There was another fine bit where you satirized how independents were treated: “the independents remained on the outskirts, walking [past] the hubbub as if it wasn’t there. It felt good to turn the tables for once.” I feel this could be made a little more clear and a little shorter though.
I will use that to transition into my negatives: for the sake of being a jerk I want to mention that you misspelled mic as mike, so I mentioned it just now. Most of my criticisms center around your description. First was a rather mini but slightly annoying one: “…dry clean only shirt” this isn’t really needed, and if you really wanted to keep this, you could probably just let us know through dialogue or thought. Another one in a similar vein is “the gaggle continues to goggle and squawk” my issue with this description is that it doesn’t tell us enough, this can easily be fixed though, just add in “the reporters” into the description. Another odd description is “ The commotion was drawing a larger number of spectators in the form of members of parliament”, this is very wordy I think it could use some reworking.
This was a good story and I hope to see more from you in the future.
Points: 169
Reviews: 44
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