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Reviews For: The New Blue Moon
Steeleafan 2007-10-02 . chapter 5
I love you! This was beautiful! and it stayed true to the charactors! YAYAYA at the end I had to skim because it's getting late..but otherwise I adored it to death! Thank you thank you thank you!
Maggy 2004-12-14 . chapter 5
This is a terrific story. Your plots and sublot are engaging, your take on the characters (including Bert and Agnes) is excellent. I especially appreciate all the "in" jokes and dialogue reminiscent of specific episodes.

I notice you don't have any other reviews yet, so I'm going to take the plunge and offer what I hope is some constructive criticism. Unless I missed something at the beginning, there was no warning that what I was going to read was not "conventional fanfic" in the sense of having a continuous prose narrative interlaced with dialogue. Consequently, on the one hand, I want to suggest that you either label it as a "quasi-screenplay" or rewrite it following the conventions of written fiction. The places where you "take shortcuts" smack of this being a draft rather than a finished piece, as do the inconsistencies of verb tenses, the typographical errors, etc.

On the other hand (with the exception of the typos), one of the hallmarks of the _Moonlighting_ tv show was their unconventional approach to presenting their stories, so perhaps I am doing you a disservice. If so, I apologize. Still, some of the breaks are distracting.

Either way, you would surely benefit from the services of a beta-reader.

I look forward to reading more of your work. You are obviously talented and the fact that you wrote a five-chapter story about a long-cancelled television show means you are also persistent. These two qualities are a *requirement* for success. :-)

Thanks again for the pleasure of another visit to the Blue Moon universe.
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