I glanced down at the person, who happened but once again my brain had found yet another way of stimulating my misery.
That makes absolutely no sense. Take out the 'who happened', for the life of me, I don't know why it's there.
I turned to him and waited for him to speak.
Repitition of the word him. It's not to bad here, but removing one, or even both hims could do wonders for the flow of the story.
“How are you? he questioned, rubbing his hand down my arm.
Missed the second quotation
“I’m sorry for making you feel uncomfortable,”
End this with a period
He grabbed the envelope he had brought with him and headed towards the door.
he had...uew....Not a great tecnique to adopt. He had done this, he had done that, is very unprofessional and it just sounds odd in past tense. The had is unneccesary. "he grabbed the envelope he brought with him," sounds much better in comparison.
‘I-I need to tell you something,’ he stuttered.
why the sudden switch to single quotation marks? You've been using double the whole time.
“Before he got on the plane...he told me he wasn’t coming back,”
Nix the ellipses, and put a period at the end of this.
he wrote me one too[period] [s]telling me he knew that he was going to die.[/s]”
She's know's what the letter is about, and she reads it as well. He doesn't have to tell her it's contents.
Even if I had wanted to forget Rocco,
There it is again...had had had...once again, take it out.
“I’m pregnant.”
nice ending. Unexpected, in a good way. =D
Okay, A few topics I should go over. Dialoge being one of the most important ones.
Here's what I've noticed you do a lot.... (this isn't from your peice, it's just random)
"Hello," I said.
She looked at me oddly and repeated, "Hello,"
See. Where you end of the dialogue, you seem to put a comma. I'm going to guess it has to do with confusion about dialogue rules. So, here they are in a nutshell...
- If you finish a thought and nothing comes after it, there's a period
- If the character say's something, and he said/she said/he muttered ect
comes after it, then there is a comma after the dialoge.
- If an action comes after the dialogue, there's a period.
That's pretty much it on dialogue punctiation...
Something else I noticed you did a lot, and I pointed it out earlier, is the who, he had done this thing. That's not very good for a few reasons. Most of the time you can just take out the had...it's like triple negatives for the past tense writer..after all, you wouldn't say, "She didn't not like to not do that." It would sound better as, "She liked doing that." Simple often outshoots complex .
Yeah, so that was about it for things to point out. The rest was very good, the flow, the speed of things. Very good job, minus the typos. =D
Keep up the great work!!!
-JC
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