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how do you like it so far? any sugestions?

Please read my story on http://www.worthyofpublishing.com/book.asp?book_ID... and rate and comment PLEASE!! I welcome any ideas!

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  • 1 decade ago
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    It's definitely promising. It sounds like you have a really great idea going, but it's just not coming out quite right yet - which, of course, is okay. That's what rough drafts are for - getting ideas onto paper. I do, however, have a few suggestions you might want to keep in mind, though naturally, whether you choose to listen to them or not is your choice:

    1) Definitely spell-check your work before you post it for others to read. I'm not able to get through all 5 chapters of the story at the moment, but just in the prologue/summary and first chapter alone I found over 15 grammar and spelling mistakes, which isn't good. If you want to attract readers to your story, you need to make it be as clean and professional-looking as possible.

    2) Take your time introducing the character. A sure-fire way to give a smashing intro to a story is to throw in some action. Make the beginning part of that chase scene you mentioned - make the reader want to know what happens next. You don't need tell everything about the character in the first paragraph, or worse, in the prologue. Make Phoenix's history a mystery - let the reader find out why she is who she is as the story progresses. Characters can get very boring very fast if the reader finds out all there is to know in the first few pages.

    3) The story so far seemed a bit confusing. Again, it takes time to introduce solid characters, and it also takes time to introduce a whole new world. In the prologue, you write "He was one of the important Aesir." What's an Aesir? Some authors are able to pull off introducing crazy subjects before the story even starts, but it takes a super dynamic plot to make that successful. It's much, much safer and more beneficial to make the prologue relate to the reader as much as possible.

    4) Phoenix seems like a bit of a Mary-Sue. Don't get me wrong, sometimes this is smiled upon - take Bella Swan in Twilight, for example. However, most distinguished readers frown on characters who everybody wants for no real, solid reason. You say that Phoenix is the last of her kind? Why is that? Why did everyone else die, and yet she survived whatever tragic incident befell them all? You also say that anyone who kills her gains untold powers and abilities, which makes her a bit too much of a "prize." Why do they gain abilities by killing her? Also, the "woe-is-me" characters, with a sorrowful past, are often disliked as well. You might try developing Phoenix into a character who is oblivious to the full extent of her powers, assuming she is like everyone else until she begins to receive threats from these "Aesir" characters. Also, in the intro, you wrote: "I now have to worry about being tracked down in every country, town, and home. No one wants me." If no one wants her (or him), why are they tracking him/her down?

    5) Prologues are SO important in a story, it's not even funny. A prologue is what captures the readers - makes them stay. Without a decent prologue, your story will never be read by anyone, and after reading your intro, I think you know that. However, you seem to have a bit of trouble putting the suspense and intrigue you want to convey into words. The first sentence is good - "I never meant to kill him," though I would suggest putting a period instead of an exclamation mark at the end. Exclamation marks seem panicked and stressed, which, in turn, makes the reader feel a bit panicked and stressed reading it, and will result in them quickly putting it down and searching for something less unnerving. Prologues should be simple, quick, and to-the-point, allowing the reader a glimpse into the mind of the character without illuminating every unwanted emotion. Thus, I've attempted to rewrite your prologue very quickly here, just so you can see what I mean:

    "I never meant to kill him - it was my life or his. After all, he was my enemy. My assassin. Not that that justifies him tracking me down in every country, town, and home known to man - and even those unknown. Not that it justifies my act of murder towards him. But surely it accounts for something, right? Surely, since I now have the power, the strength, and the will to take them all down with just the flick of my finger, I have every right in hell to do so. They destroyed my home. They killed my family. They took my past in the palm of their greasy, gritty little hands and smashed it into nonrecognition. Now they want my blood on their hands, but they seem to have overlooked one tiny little detail:

    It's my turn."

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    Just a suggestion. :) Hope I helped!

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    5 years ago

    --->>> a million. DRESS - I just like the get dressed, besides the corsette facet the only aspect is going up additional then the opposite and it appears kinda wierd. or else its a lovable get dressed probably you must upload a few colour like blue or pink in there someplace!! two. FLOWERS - i couldnt see the % it used to be "entry forbidden" three. BRIDESMADE - Im now not definite if the orange wings could pass with the white. . . Maybe you must do Black wings with an orange glitter or with an orange contact and a orange headscarf. four CAKE - Cake is awsome five. PLACE -awsome

  • 1 decade ago

    good I guess... but it was a little confusing with all the groups. Maybe its just cause its really late and I'm disoriented lol. Good jobbbb

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