Published June 11, 2009
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Well, kinky waffles, if you are so good at writing why do you have only 0 points. please elaborate when you say i fail.
you fail at writing
Very detailed. But at certain points, I felt that there was a little bit of confusion. It seemed like you were switching your point of view from 1st to 3rd, which kind of pulled me off track.
Hi there huggybear! I'll be critiquing this today!
Nitpicks;
You are writing this in past tense, therefore, 'hear' should be 'heard.' Don't capitalize 'her' unless if it's a proper noun, and I have a feeling that Her isn't her name.
I don't think this works, because it cuts off the flow. There are some cases where things like this do work, but I don't think it's working here. Why? Well, it made me stop and go back because I missed something and that's the last thing you want. So, this sentence is unnecessary.
six-years-old. Oo, I can see something coming.
I don't really think a baby is capable of that. Maybe a toddler, but not a baby.
This seems kind of rushed in a way (I know, I'm not much help). I'm sure no 7-year-old would care if they could wear Abercombie or not. I know for sure that my little brother doesn't, and he's eight. There are also a few words spelled wrong. "completely" and "each other."
I thought she was human, not a demon. Maybe 'she acts like a demon'?
Is 7-11 some kind of date? Joking, but somebody else could think it's a date. I think that's her age? You should change it to something along the lines of: Since she was seven, she would...
Siblings, meaning she has more than one? All we've heard of is that she only has a sister, so I"m not sure if this is a typo or not, so I'm just pointing it out.
I think workahollic has one 'l.'
You need to describe the scene, so it wont' leave the reader hanging.
You can't change from past tense to present tense - keep it at one.
Uhm... Weird way to end it. Doesn't make sense all that much. You can explain it more like, "She just sat there at her vanity table...' :]
Description;
You seemed to lack this. It mostly seemed more of a flash back than anything. What did the chacarters look like? What about the smells, the scene?
Just little things like, "The carpets were blue" or something is better than nothing. Description = good! :]
Overall;
I didn't feel like it had all that much emotion - you never really expressed what she was feeling. You did at the end, but that was telling. Show us her anger towards her mom and sister; she threw something. Show us that she's sad; she cried. Get it?
I want to point out something, too:
This would be a perfect time to put in feeling and thoughts, she has to feel something and has to be thinking somethings.
Oh, one more thing. You're second paragraph was way too long. Break it down. Big blobs of text can make one's desire to read it go away.
I think this has potential!
Keep writing,
Becca
Hi huggybear. I am Conrad, and I will be reviewing your work today.
That makes no grammatical sense. I know what you're trying to say, that she's looking intently into her own eyes. But you need to clean up the way in which you say it, maybe combine those two middle sections you've offset with commas. As it is, it's difficult and clunky. Readers won't like that.
That was really the only nitpick I found, mostly because it was that crucial opening sentence. As for overall stuff, I'm really going to recommend that you go back to the first rule of writing: show, don't tell. As it is, you're just telling us how horrible it is. You do attempt to show, but the last anecdote seems very out of place. You might consider working on integrating it better. Oh, and people don't get MS because of stress, so you might want to edit that so it doesn't appear like the mother's getting MS was a result of the baby's nearly choking.
Well, that's all for me. This story does have potential. You just need to work with it a little. Good job, and good luck.
-Conrad Rice