Balloons in Winter C3 /P

by Incandescence

Published July 28, 2006

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Trident
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Trident wrote a review Review · Nov 19, 2006

Incan, I can't believe you think you can't write fiction. Sigh...

This is good. You have a talent for playing with the reader's emotions. Your characters are growing more real with each chapter. I feel this is a wonderful example of character development.

I found little to criticize in this chapter. Perhaps one thing is your tendency to wander a bit too much when it comes to inner-dialogue. I typically despise one line quips when it comes to inner-dialogue, but sometimes large paragraphs are just as bad. I feel this happens a few times here.

You have a talent for showing a scene that may ordinarily be mundane and expanding upon it to include emotion as well as thought.

I am (hopefully correctly) assuming this is told by Donny's girlfriend. I think her name is Janet. Anyway, have you considered naming each chapter after the character that narrates it? I think it would add a lot as well as help the reader know who is speaking at the beginning. If your purpose was to have them try and figure it out by reading it, then I suggest you don't take that route. Agree? Disagree?

I shall try to get to chapter four tonight, if I can.



It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle. The door opened on to a tube-shaped hall like a tunnel: a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with panelled walls, and floors tiled and carpeted, provided with polished chairs, and lots and lots of pegs for hats and coats—the hobbit was fond of visitors. The tunnel wound on and on, going fairly but not quite straight into the side of the hill —The Hill, as all the people for many miles round called it—and many little round doors opened out of it, first on one side and then on another.
— JRR Tolkien