 Mona 2005-11-01 . chapter 3 :)
I like it a lot.
you're a great storyteller, good at keeping me completely immersed and interested in finding out where this is all going to end. It's well written (word choice, sentence structure, etc.) and readable, and the dialogue flows naturally. Oh, and it's pretty well balanced out non-dialogue passages, which is nice.
ok ok, "it is extremely helpful...blah blah blah ...aspect of the story...improved...blah blah blah...well rounded critique... blah blah blah..." Yeah. I'm trying, here.
If you want to work on anything, I'd say the characters can be a bit inconsistent. A few times I found myself thinking something like "wait, wasn't he thinking just the opposite a minute ago?" Although you did do a good job of making them believably consistent with what we already know about them in the canon, and I certainly can't say it stopped me from enjoying the story any.
but yeah, if I were editing it, I'd clear up a few minor inconsistencies, or places where just a bit more explanation could make a huge difference between your readers really getting it and them just gliding over a passage on the way to the next part...and I'd reread it and run a spelling/grammar check of course, but I think you actually did pretty good on that. (what am I thinking? I mean "pretty well", of course :) )
All in all, I really liked it. You really have a gift for storytelling and skill with words. And the imagination to make use of them, which is a great thing.
Keep writing!
(update soon. please? :) I'm dying to read more.) |