white shadows. posting welcome → poll up.

Are you a writer or a poet? Come and share your creations with us, or discuss writing techniques with others
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Judging by my style of writing, how old do you think I am?

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Re: white shadows. posting welcome → poll up.

Postby ɾïṿεṉḋεll » Mon Feb 04, 2013 3:16 pm

Thank you, βℓαcκ.Ɩиκ ^^ I'm definatly going to be writing more of this story, at least three chapters here on CS, in addition to the two prologues. If it gets good "reviews" then I'll continue with it in real life and maybe even get it published with a bit truckload of luck c:

I also have to say that I love the story you wrote, Glitch. I stumbled upon it a while ago and thought it was brilliant. Fabulous work!
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Postby INK. » Mon Feb 04, 2013 3:28 pm

Thank you so much!

and I have to say I'm very excited to read more! I have read quite a few futuristic
stories here on CS but I find yours to be the most original and interesting to read.
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Postby ɾïṿεṉḋεll » Wed Feb 06, 2013 3:53 pm

Thank you again c:
Just wondering if you might have any critique on it, I especially have issues with sentance structure. I know that one for a fact x3
I'm always looking for little ways to improve with my writing, and I know that that's one of the areas I tend to be uber flowy in.
Any suggestions?
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Re: white shadows. posting welcome → poll up.

Postby icicle1107 » Wed Feb 06, 2013 4:31 pm

I really like your idea. I have never heard this before or anything remotely simular. It is original and that is awesome!!!!

Okay Critique time.

First Prolouge:
Very well written and very descriptive!
I couldn't find any errors with the sentence structure ;) or grammer.

Second Prolouge:
Her mother, Sophia, wore one identical, except that her dress came down to her ankles,
while her father, James, wore a tunic of the same material, and pants.
I would split this into two sentences. Right after ankle.
A clear blue, with hints
of green and grey lines dashing in between the blue. On some days, her eyes appeared blue, but on
others, green, or grey.
Seems kind of repetative.
Otherwise it looks awesome!

Chapter i:
The only place she felt free. Inside, the young girl felt tethered, trapped, held onto the earth by the sheer will of others. The bonds of the government and their laws held her fast. Ah, but outside, all that open space! Although she only saw them once, she knew they were out there. Stars. When the power had failed during a rebel attack, they had smiled down on her, beckoning her to them. Her parents awoke, doing their daily morning routine, and Irene sat in her bedroom, watching the city come to life. The people, they were what roused it from its slumber. Without them, what was the city? Cold steel trying to mimic the mighty mountains that surrounded it. Visitny was nothing without its inhabitants. Opening the un-shatter-able glass windows that surrounded her seat, Irene sat on the sill, feet dangling out into nothingness. Well, there was a ledge some ten feet below her, but the girl suspected that it wouldn’t hold her weight, and wasn’t willing to try something so stupid. Knowing her mother would be upset with her for trying something adventurous, Irene slunk back inside her room, leaving the windows open.
It had rained the night before, she could tell from the general freshness and rebirth the air seemed to radiate. As Irene walked to school, she couldn't help but notice that the sun was shining brightly, despite the clouds that had invaded its sky during the dark hours. The light glistened off the buildings in a blinding fashion, casting dancing spots to worm their way through the full canopies of the trees. She stooped to pick up a twig and edge a drowning worm onto it. Irene couldn’t bear to see anything in pain, and she was sure that even as small as it was, the worm could feel the puddle filling it’s lungs with water. And though that couldn’t feel good to the worm, helping the life-form did improve the girl’s already normal day.
Compared to your other paragraphs this seems to be gigantic. It also changes topics twice. Maybe add a break after were I underlined. It seems like the place it should break up.

The day passed rapidly, Irene’s mind was elsewhere and she hardly paid any attention to her lessons. History went by fleetingly, as if afraid of her. Chemistry and Biology ran through with hardly a backwards glance. Thinking of Ben the entire time, her mind elsewhere.
Again slightly repetative.

But otherwise I was very impressed with your writing and I can't wait to read more. Hope the critisism helped! :D
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Re: white shadows. posting welcome → poll up.

Postby INK. » Wed Feb 06, 2013 5:07 pm



My critique will sound wimpy now compared to the above critique, but with the way that I write,
I have to be careful of my sentence structure.
So I really feel you there, I tend to write sentences that are generally not accepted to be correct in structure,
but they make total sense to me.
Also, the way with how descriptive you are is beautiful and it flows magnificently to me. My only thing to say about that is,
you are great at describing the world around the character, but you could include a sensory detail {smell, touch, hear, etc}
because you do use sight very well, but sensory details can add some depth as well
#as always, these are just suggestions, you don't need to use them :)

@icicle1107- I disagree a little bit with your first critique, I think the sentence if fine and doesn't need to be split
also the last one about repetition, i found the way she wrote it to be creative and more interesting than if it was
made more simple
{personal opinion} :)
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Postby icicle1107 » Wed Feb 06, 2013 5:20 pm

@blackink

I definitely agree about the descriptiveness of this story. it's simply gorgeous. The two critiques of mine that you pointed out: the first one could be left alone and still be fine. I think the first time I read it I changed the period after the sentence about the girls cloths into a comma so it seemed a lot longer oops. The second one instead of making it simpler I suggest changing a word or adding one instead of saying her mind was elsewhere twice. Although i know that i often purposefully repeat myself on occasion to make a point of it's importance. so if this is what you are doing then ignore my comment in that section.
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Postby ɾïṿεṉḋεll » Thu Feb 07, 2013 7:50 am

That's some wonderful critique you two have there, I found it very helpful ^^
I have added a few more sensory details, though not many because I'll end up bombarding the story with them when we get a little deeper into the plot, because it's gonna be quite. . . interesting. I won't spoil it because I'm not really sure what it'll be like, and I want anyone reading to be suprised ouo
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Postby INK. » Thu Feb 07, 2013 1:54 pm

great! I'm very excited! keep us updated please :3
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Postby ɾïṿεṉḋεll » Tue Mar 05, 2013 3:32 pm

Added some more words ouo
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Postby not zinnia » Wed Mar 06, 2013 2:46 pm

I love this story, ;3;
I'll be sure to give an in-depth critique once when I find the time, but at first glance, there's not much to critique in the first place. My only issue with it upon first impression is comma over-kill.
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