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Reviews For: The Truth About Fate
TG Muka 2006-06-03 . chapter 2
Very minimalistic in style; would have loved to see a lot more description. Several points that aren't mentioned, really: it's never expressed whether she's _supposed_ to be blind, or if it was, I didn't catch it; what role the wise woman has in the culture; what kind of place they really live in.

The story moves along at a nice clip, although I always find things happening so conveniently--such as the man waiting for her just as she left the wise woman's house--to be a bit boring, because things never really happen like that. Perhaps you might need to even slow down a bit to let everything flesh out.

Open up a thesaurus and use a dictionary when you read. These things tend to help you when you're struggling with your vocab; sometimes, it appears that you run out of ways to describe something and it comes off a bit weak. Don't shy away from metaphors, similes, hyperbole, etc.

You come out of the story, at least of what you've posted, not really knowing any of the characters at all. You know what Mora has been thinking and how she's acted, but you don't have any connection to her. I understand this has to build, but as it is now, you could go through the whole story being detached.
somethingsup 2006-01-26 . chapter 1
Wow, you write so beautifully. The description of the wise woman with the bad breath was great. So much texture! ^_^
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