Contemporary short fiction, poetry and more
Monthly Archives: December 2014
Lose all the semi-colons.
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Are you telling two stories, or one?
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I love the title, but hate the story. |
Try re-writing this from a different point of view.
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Show. Don’t tell.
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Is this important?
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Get rid of the ellipses.
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Break this down into shorter sentences.
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This paragraph tells the reader nothing he/she doesn’t already know.
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You seem to be engaged in what is known in cricketing circles as, ‘Taking a long run-up’.
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The foot of this page is where the story really starts.
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Get on with it. |
I hate this character. Well done. |
Good use of detail. |
Why isn’t this in a standard format? |
Yes. |
I love the story, but hate the title. |
Death to all modifiers. |
Now I am getting interested. |
I wish I had written this. |
Your limited-omniscience third person narrator has ideas above its station.
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Have you considered writing for Mills & Boon (no irony)? |
Now we are getting somewhere. |
Publish.
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I’d like to buy this character a drink. |