 haruko sohma 2008-09-02 . chapter 2An interesting story idea. But there is some critique that I'll be offering:
First of all, try not to add parentheses with your own comments in the middle of the story, it's very distracting. And likewise, try to avoid using "I" and referring to yourself while telling the story altogether. Unless you're going for a casual, sarcastic approach, it makes the writing seem unprofessional. If you have comments to say or things to explain, you could try to do so before the chapter starts, or you could place a number next to the part you think needs explaining and get to it at the end of the chapter. But don't worry about this too much, I used a lot of parentheses when I started writing fanfiction, too :)
Second, please try not to switch points of view too much. Unless it's necessary in order to fully understand what is going on in the story, it's annoying more than anything, in my opinion. In this chapter's case, since we need to know that Matsuda messed up in giving Misa L's room number, you could simply write the story in third person by saying something like, I dunno, "While Misa waited impatiently outside the door, Matsuda realized that he had given her the wrong number and prayed she wouldn't kill him" or something like that.
I'll overlook that this story scenario is completely impossible given that it amuses me so much, but I also have to mention that I think L is a bit out of character. I realize that the government's on his tail, but I think he respects/likes Misa too much to even *think* about resorting to rape. If he did give her a certain amount of time to get over Light, he'd give her some more time than a week, he knows how much she cared for him, and also since he's not too crazy about the idea himself, he'd probably want to give himself some time to get used to their new arrangement. Which reminds me... what did happen to Light? Could you touch up on that in the next chapter?
But I will say that in chapter one, I started cracking up when L asked why they didn't just make him a statue and Watari asks "Of what, a giant L?" Hilarious XD Can't wait for the next chapter :) |