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Critiques Needed: First pages of Project Styx. Content Warning.
Authors note: I would like constructive critiques on the first pages of a sci-fi fantasy book I am working on. I would like to know first impressions and things that need to be worked on. This is so I can get an idea of what an agent or editor might think. I also know that this is long—no need to read the whole thing, in fact, tell me when you lose interest.
By K. Kocheryan2 years ago in Critique
My Coworker, Death
Death and I work very closely, but never together I see death in passing about once a week, but we've never actually met. For most people death is an obscure thought, something that rarely crosses the mind. For others, it is the prominent shadow that runs past our peripherals. Tonight, death worked over time. He was not a blur that ran past as I was turning away, but was a prominent shadow in the room I stood in and the floor beneath me. I didn't see him at first, he's easy to miss if you want to. My focus was on the muddy veins of my patient's right arm, attempting to finagle one last good one to draw from. It was never my forte, but when I did get it, I enjoyed watching the smooth red liquid collect into the tubes; the simple movement of it was relaxing to me in a sense. It was a reward, an earning for my blind pokes that eventually caught what I was looking for.
By Kelsey Winds2 years ago in Critique
Strategies to Make Your "Vocal Writing Awards" Submissions EVEN BETTER
You’ve poured yourself into creating an amazing story. You've read it through several times. Yet perhaps you hesitate before pressing “submit,” wondering: What could I do to make it even better?
By Sonia Heidi Unruh2 years ago in Critique
Ten Writers I Need to Recommend
I seem to have stirred a pot a little too hard for some of you. In a previous piece entitled “Ten Writers I Can No Longer Read,” I listed the names of authors that I now avoid, with some fair reasons for my choices (I even included a list of other runners-up that could have made the list longer).
By Kendall Defoe 2 years ago in Critique
College Degrees
The most expensive piece of paper one may ever own. Signed off and sealed, making the empty promises that higher education brings extra official. Garnered after many nights of justified tears and many words written on topics one can't even remember. C's get degrees, but good jobs are never promised.
By Ashley Lima3 years ago in Critique
Lady and The Tramp
In this heartwarming romantic mythology, an adequate re-telling of the 1955 invigorated time-honored Story, Lady, an overachieving, pampered American Cocker Spaniel house dog, and Tramp, a formidable but charming, fast-talking stray, embark on a spontaneous adventure and, despite their dissimilarities, cultivate nigher and come to apprehend the significance of home.
By HandsomelouiiThePoet (Lonzo ward)3 years ago in Critique
Critique Challenge Critique
50 words to critique whatever you want. A lesson in brevity. You can critique anything. novels, albums, movies, sculptures, paintings, online content, hats. No not hats. Unless it was a very famous hat. Then you could critique that hat.
By Paul Stewart3 years ago in Critique
Vocal Creators Choose to Critique These Books
Animal/Farm Oliver/Twist LOTR Harry/Potter(s) Lovely/Bones The/Giver Earth's/Children/Series Ulysses Frankenstein Candide Bible Coraline Outsiders Belgriad Moby/Dick Pride/Prejudice Catcher/Rye If/This/Is/A/Man To/Kill/A/Mockingbird Never/Let/Me/Go Oryx/And/Crake Gone/With/The/Wind Catch/22 War/and/Peace Thirteen/Reasons/Why The/Old/Man/And/The/Sea Romeo/And/Juliet Robinson/Crusoe Fahrenheit/451 The/Giving/Tree Don/Quixote Wuthering/Heights Crime/and/Punishment
By Judey Kalchik 3 years ago in Critique
