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Field report: Grace Watson and Cooper Berkley
Operatives have successfully completed their mission to rescue Prime Minister Blake Wesley. Known terrorist Damian Till held him hostage for five days before the operatives rescued him. Till demanded six million dollars for the safe return of the prime minister. Till gave us six days to pay the ransom, and the operatives arrived just in time. Wesley is now safe, under 24 hour surveillance.
Grace sighed, pushing the field report across the table to Cooper. They were sitting at the kitchen table in Grace’s apartment, reading the field report from their latest mission.
“I’m so glad that mission is over with.” Grace said.
“I am too,” Cooper replied, “the prime minister was such a jerk when we rescued him.”
“I know right! He was fighting us, and trying to get back to his kidnapper! Why would he even do that! He was the stupid one who got himself kidnapped in the first place!” Cooper knew better than to interrupt her when she was criticizing her least favorite person, the prime minister, so Grace continued ranting about the prime minister, until a knock on the door interrupted her.
“Who is it?” Cooper called.
“Kennedy and Austin,” Cooper walked over to the door, unlocked it and let their best friends in. With them was their 9 year old son, Sean. Grace abandoned her rant, and ran over to hug Kennedy. She bent down to hug Sean, and leapt into her arms.
“Hey Sean! What’s up buddy?” he grinned in answer. Sean was like the son Grace didn’t have, and she loved him like he was her own son.
“Kennedy! I’m so glad you’re ok! How was your last mission? We never heard from Jonathan about how it went?”
“Well, he’s my boss, so he’s not supposed to tell you, is he?” Kennedy pointed out. Grace laughed.
“Oh yeah, ‘cause its ‘top secret’”
“According to him, it is top secret!”
“Like he doesn’t know we’re going to tell each other all the details anyways!”
“Well…I don’t actually think he knows we tell each other everything.”
“Of course he know,” Austin put in, “He just pretends he doesn’t so we don’t get in trouble. We are his best spies; he doesn’t want to loose us!”
“Of course he doesn’t,” Cooper added, “He hasn’t sent anyone but us on a mission in over a year.”
“Why is that?” Grace asked
“Some kind of punishment for a failed mission maybe? I’m really not sure.”
“So are we going to be going on all the missions now?”
“I’m would assume so, considering we’ve gone on the last six.”
“You would think the others would be complaining by now.” Kennedy said.
“They’re too scared off what Jonathan would do to their family if they complained. He’s not too bad when he’s not mad at you; but when he is, you better watch out.” at that happy thought, the phone rang, causing all five of them to jump.
“I’ll get it!” Sean screamed, jumping down from Grace’s arms to race for the phone.
“No, Sean don’t!” Cooper ordered, not unkindly.
“Why not?” he whined.
“That’s Jonathans line.”
“You just got back from your last mission…” Kennedy whispered. Cooper slowly walked to the phone, pausing before he answered it.
“Hello?”
“Is Cooper?” Jonathan asked.
“Yes.” he replied nervously.
“Well Cooper, I’m assuming Grace is with you, as well as Kennedy and Austin?”
“Yeah they are, why?”
“I need you to go on another mission for me.”
“But-”
“Are you arguing with me? Do you want to end up like Dirk Potter?” Cooper gulped, trying to remember what happened to Dirk. It hit him, Dirk had refused to go on another mission, and Jonathan had order to have him and his family killed. Jonathan interpreted his silence correctly.
“So…having second thoughts about going on the mission after all?”
“Yes. I’ll do it.”
“What about Grace, Kennedy, and Austin? Will they go?”
“Grace? Kennedy? Austin? You up for another mission?” he asked, fully aware that Jonathan was listening to every word he said. He grabbed a nearby piece of paper and a pen, and started scrawling something down. Grace, Kennedy, Austin, and Sean leaned over to look at it.
“Sean, honey?” Kennedy said, “Can you go in the other room?”
“Why mommy?”
“Just go,” she gave him a look. He seemed to understand the meaning of it, and he sullenly walked out of the room.
He threatened to kill us if we don’t take the mission. I don’t know what it is yet, but I know he’s serious about killing us if we don’t do it.
Grace and Kennedy had equal looks of shock on their faces. Cooper glanced at Austin, and he nodded.
“We have to do it.” he whispered.
“All right, we’re all in.” Cooper said to Jonathan.
“Good. Come to my office tomorrow at 2pm for the rest of the details.”
“Ok. We’ll be there.” Cooper heard the click as Jonathan hung up, and he slowly set the phone down.
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- Remus LupinLv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
Your writing could be divided into two parts: the field report and the dialogue. The field report, unfortunately, did not sound at all like a field report. A real report would say:
Operatives: Grace Watson and Cooper Berkely
Mission Status: Success
That would be more accurate, and it would then be the job of the writer to explain the drama with the Prime Minister. If you want to keep the whole "Prime Minister" bit, you need to put some serious work into that report. You said, "Till gave us". That is what sealed your fate in my book. A report would not speak in first person! It need to be harsh, and to the point.
As for the dialogue itself, it sounds very amateur. These operatives need to sound like professionals, they wouldn't say things like "The Prime Minister was a jerk." They would most likely not discuss anything at all, and if they did, it would be their next mission.
And finally, silly and obvious grammar mistakes make it seem even more amateur. Things like, "he doesn't want to loose us." Can easily be corrected.
Look, I know more than anyone that critiques are hard to hear. But don't give up! Fixing you mistakes and moving on is the only way to learn!