Published April 13, 2008
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I love the pure, raw grittiness that this has. It was rife with errors - mostly punctuation - but the potential of this thing just blew me away. Absolutely knocked my socks off.
Ink seems to have caught a lot of nitpicks, and I really don't have time to go through it myself, but there was a lot of punctuation errors, mostly commas and the like. But like I said, this is just plain awesome.
The formatting is a bit weird. Put an extra space in between each new paragraph and each new line of dialogue by a different character.
For example, my review is being broken up into paragraphs separated by spaces. And as for the dialogue:
"Hey, I caught a fish!" Peter couldn't believe it. His pole was jumping around in his hands as if it had a life of its own. "What do I do now?"
"Don't just stand there, you idiot! Get the net!" Henry was coming as fast as he could, but the long grass kept catching at his legs, so that he had to do a little hop-skip rather than a run.
See how that works? An attractive formatting draws in more readers.
In any case, a huge *thumbs up* from me for the rough edge this story has. Lovin' it.
~GryphonFledgling
I was drawn in by the title, and I've been trying not to read anything too long today since my pain killers don't seem to be working, but I did anyways.
Personally, as for the opening sentence, I wasn't confused at all. I, for one, found it highly amusing, and chuckled out loud in the midist. Sometimes the story was a little racey and unclear though, so my warning would be to distinguish the characters as we meet them. There wasn't much of an introduction, and I had a hard time just getting the narrator's story set straight.
So I would suggest slowing your pace a little, don't go so fast to get to the ending. The parts that were done, however, were wonderful. I really did enjoy reading through this.
But overall, that's the main problem that I seemed to find. The motions, settings, and action descriptions were absolutely fantastic. You fell short at alerting us of the characters themsevles, and particularly the narrator. There were a couple times I had to go back to find help in distinguishing her between a boy and a girl.
Hopefully I'll get to read the rest sometime.
Thank you for the critiques but thats not the end of the story I just didn't want to make ot too long.
Wow...
Honestly, I'm confused.
Ow. This sentence hurt my head. And I had to reread - not a good sign.
Punctuation maybe?
There are too many adjectives and adjective phrases.
Also, I have put in bold one possible way of punctuation.
I think the sentence's seams are bursting. Cut over half of it and let it breathe.
I like this sentence, but I'm not sure what you mean by block.
Descriptive
I think you meant she instead of her...
Little things like this make it so much easier to read...
Perhaps this could be rearranged and punctuated.
This is so much easier to read, yeh?
A question mark...or ellipsis points, or even a comma?
I think maybe some spaces between the dialogue in this paragragh...? It would make it clearer.
Is this the end? It's so sudden...so unexpected. So disappointing. I was enjoying the story lol. Also, I'm not too sure what actually happened. Did he die? Was it a car accident? You have described it very abstractly, which is different from everything else in the story which has been fairly concrete and material.
Overall, I think you have amazing story-writing skills.
Just go easy on the adjectives - it's easy to go ever-board with them. And work on the punctuation...it'll benefit your work beyond what you could imagine.
Good luck and all the best,
Peace V
Inky