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LiquidGenesis 2004-09-24 . chapter 3
Good tension and pacing of the chapter. A bit difficult to read, but the point was good. Bad spelling is all part of the game, most of the time it isn't noticed by the author at all. I personally have to re-read my stuff over and over again and still I find little things. That's why we all post here, to get help from others. If some one brings something to your attention, it isn't a complaint, just a pointer. There's nothing wrong with mis-reading something you've probably looked over a half-a-million times.
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As to the Old English thing...it would be a good idea to add a ' to the "he" to indicate that it's been shortened. The resulting "'he" gives a clue that it's resulting from Old English instead of just a mis-spelling.
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Anyways, there were a few structural things I noticed...again don't take offense, they are just little things I stumbled over.
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"As his benefactor the new ruler of The Great Wood was named daughter of Maj, Queen Vilta," Punctuation: needs a period instead of a comma.
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"The Great Oak however were called upon by High Priest Chansidar too attend the centennial..." Wording: use 'to' instead of 'too' or instert to after too, to mean 'also to'
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"I know not what you mean treason, and I close my *I* to you, so you can open yours to me and see no treason!" Wording: Replace *I* with 'eyes'.
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"Think of the people that died for our peace, and you speak of your own Country’ peace, HA!" Possessive: Country' needs to be Country's
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"Than as the night progressed I heard talk of the council." Wording: "Than" needs to be "Then" to indicate time rather than "Instead of"
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"Besides, we are two different people with different beliefs, and if we can not get together to fight for freedom than how did these years become the years of peace." Wording and Punctuation: "than" needs to be "then" and the sentence needs to be ended with a ? since it sounds like a question, at least to me
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"It was settled than and there that the two were partners for life, or as long as it would last." Wording: "than" needs to be "then": indicates time involvement.
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"It was the largest city of the two countries but in an attempt to raid Red Cedar, the city was burn down." Tense: "Burn" needs to be "burned" to aggree with the past tense of the rest of the sentence.
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"They had no attacked on their first day, which was a beautiful sunny one." Wording and Tense: "no attacked"? I'm not sure what you meant but got the point. It would work with "no attack" or "They were not attacked" to agree with the rest of the tense of the sentence.
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"“Durhast has many ears, and twice and many eyes..." Wording: "twice and many eyes..." 'and needs to be replaced with 'as'
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"“Maybe my sent was correct, but the being is wrong." Wording: "sent" needs to be "scent"
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"I picked up the sent earlier." Wording: "sent" needs to be "scent"
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"Many howls no were sounded from all around and ten more Synphos simultaneously appeared on the mountain." Wording: the 'no' after howls doesn't make sense in context. If it was taken out, the sentence would agree with itself.
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"However, there no worries as I am now your attendant.”" Wording: the "no" after "there" doesn't make sense.
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"Oh thank you peace for taking away the way we live!" Wording: "Oh thank you..." I think 'you' needs to be 'your' to indicate possession or fault.
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Enjoyed the chapter anyways. And I'm interested in reading your info chapter.
~bless.
LiquidGenesis 2004-09-20 . chapter 2
Interesting beginning, althought I would have wanted it to be more lengthy to cover more information. But it is catchy and makes me want the second chapter. I do have some spelling and sentence structure suggetions though.
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I think in the begining you ment to say banquet instead of banquette, since banquette is an upholstered bench...and not really edible...^-^
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"A old man said to himself"...Replace "An" for "A" since another vowel follows it.
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"his beard that stood from face to belt." Don't know if "stood" would be the right phrase. "Reached" would work, but that is completely your decision.
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"He was about three hundred years of age and he looked no older than two hundred." LOL that didn't strike me of being much of a difference. You might want to lower the age he resembles to really make the right impact on the readers impression of him.
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"And in the names of your brothers and sister"...You might want to make "sister" plural.
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"he woman was finished with her prayer"...Add a "T" on the "he". ^-^
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"Chansidar sent out for his lowers to come and meet. At the meeting they discussed many a matter."...The word "meet" is repeated too much, try to replace the second one with gathering or something of the like. It would read better.
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"Besides In past we elected men that
meant nothing of the city." ...Use a comma after "Besides" and lower cap the "In".
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"The meeting continued the same all night with bickering back and forth all night."...You repeat the phrase "all night" twice in the same sentence. Try to replace one of them with something else. It would help keep the sentence from becoming redundant.
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Between the meeting and the next day, when they are mourning Jadar, put some indication of time passing by. It reads strangely.
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"He also wore white baggy pants and also black sandals." ...You repeat the word "also" twice. The second one could be cut out easily and the sentence would be much better without repeating so much.
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Can't wait till the next chapter! Thank you for the review too!
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~bless.
Evivy 2004-09-20 . chapter 1
Ack! This is jumping around like crazy and I'm confused. But thanks for not putting foot long descriptions of the scenery.
LiquidGenesis 2004-09-20 . chapter 1
A very catching introduction. I can't wait to read the first chapter! I did have a few things I wanted to let you know about. They just are little spots that could make this story read better.
You seem to vary between archiac speech and modern dialect when telling the introduction. If this was torn between archiac dialouge and modern descriptions it would work. As a reader I kept having to switch my point-of-view between modern and archiac. It was very distracting from a wonderful reading.
"Than there were shadows where before there was only light." This sentence made me stumble visually a bit.
"Now as far as the mythic mountains were." This seems like it was meant to go further into detail. Also, you might want to keep capitalizing Mythic Moutains if it's a proper place.
"So much for peace now however. Now the once prosperous valley was controlled..." Try eliminating the second now. It's repeated alittle too much. I think "The once prosperous valley..." would work just as well.
"The Prot were an evolved form of an ancient Elvish species." This seems like you are over describing the evoluntionary roots. Taking this sentence out would be fine. It would leave a little mystery to the Prot's origins. It might also help make them more independent from the other people's.
You skip very quickly from the third to fourth age with no description of the first or second. At least you don't highlight that you are describing the first or second age. I don't know if this was on purpose and if you were going to come back later and fill it in. I just felt a little lacking in the history as a reader.
"discuss peace agreements. All agreements..." again repeation, try to replace one 'agreements' with another term.
In the end, go a little more into the details behind the Years of Peace and the Search for the Orbs. That seemed like a very interesting time and you just passed right over it. I wanted to read more about it since the story will start after it. It is good to know more since it gives me a better since of what climate the story starts in.
Like I said I really want to read the first chapter and I hope you don't take my suggestions the wrong way. They are just little things I noticed as a reader. We are all here to help one another after all. Hope to see more stuff soon!
~bless.
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