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Re: Highly appreciated to whoever reads this

Postby SparK8 » Mon Apr 16, 2012 12:33 pm

Welcome. I love to help out a fellow writer. By the way, you have some wonderful names in this. I may name one of my characters some variation of Lysander some day, if you don't mind.
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Re: Highly appreciated to whoever reads this

Postby LunaWolf7 » Mon Apr 16, 2012 12:45 pm

No, I wouldn't mind. I actually got the name from my brother at the beginning of my story when I had no name for him.
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Re: Highly appreciated to whoever reads this

Postby SparK8 » Mon Apr 16, 2012 11:37 pm

Nice. Names can be difficult to come up with sometimes. It took me months to name all of my characters.
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Re: Highly appreciated to whoever reads this

Postby ~West Wind~ » Tue Apr 17, 2012 8:55 am

Hey Luna! Shadow here. I got to reading your story, and I have to say it is VERY good! I have some adive, if you'll accept it.

Here is something you wrote:
'I made a mistake looking up, because as I look up, my foot slips and I fall, the fall turning into me rolling down the hill.'

Sentences like this are ones you write often, and I like to call them Awkward Sentences, not because they are awkward, but because there are much better ways to write them.

When you write, you tend to not like to start new sentences and then the sentences stretch. You're good at making them make sense, though they are long, but you need to be able to make it flow better, and make shorter sentences.

In the sentence above, you extend from one idea to the next without making a new sentence. You'll want to avoid this. Another, better way to write this sentence would be : 'I look up, which turns out to be a mistake, because my foot slips on the slope and I fall; my clumsy stumble turns into a roll as I come down the slope.' Yes, it's longer than the sentence above, but it makes more sense.

Another thing you tend to do, and this isn't a grammatical error, but rather one having to do with interactions and the way your character thinks, along with your writing style. You're eager for characters to meet, I can kinda tell, because that keeps the story rolling. Characters aren't unsure of other characters, but instead act almost like they've met them before, and they talk and interact like they know the other. For example, when Lysander knocks on Claya's bedroom door and she opens it, she isn't as suspicious of his intentions as she should be, and acts in a way that though she is suspicious, she is completly able to talk to him, and she shouldn't be. For pity's sake, a strange boy knocks on your door with unknown intentions (he could be seeking to kill her for all we know!) and all you accuse him of is sneaking about before moving on to a completely, unrelated topic?

Sorry for squealing at you, but this is something that happens to me a lot and I want to stop it before this turns into a full-scale infection.

Also, maybe this is simply your writing style, but your paragraphs would flow better if you linked sentences that are similiar with
; s, - s, and more commas and periods. You don't need a whole 'nother sentence to describe the sky, when you link it up to the sentence that happened before, that describes the weather.
To simplify it:
Sentence about a dog <-----> Sentence about dog's fur
Link them and they become a perfectly happy couple that helps the story flow.

Sorry again for harassing you with all this picky stuff! Don't have any doubts about it's quality though; it's very good!
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Re: Highly appreciated to whoever reads this

Postby LunaWolf7 » Wed Apr 18, 2012 4:58 pm

No, its fine, I appreciate it, and it made me laugh(even if it should not). Ya, I`m VERY inexperienced, and I have trouble with paragraphs/sentences. Thank you for explaining the 'awkward' part, I did not understand what SparK8 meant by that. This is a rought draft, Its going to change a lot. I see how that part about the knocking at the door is weird, and it will most definitively change a little, if not completely. Thank you :D
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Re: Highly appreciated to whoever reads this

Postby Qiokkabee » Fri May 18, 2012 6:12 pm

I bookmarked your story a month ago, maybe less and to me, it's great! Just edit a bit more sinc it's a draft and then you mgr even get to publish it.^^
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Re: Highly appreciated to whoever reads this

Postby Freedom! » Thu Feb 21, 2013 6:45 am

this is simily amazing! i will be following you and your stories, lets hope it gets pubished!
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