Reviews for The Epitome of Innocence
waitingforwhatever chapter 1 . 7/30/2010
Congratulations on breaking the writer's block! I'm sort of just coming out of something like that, too.

"...freshman, he was gay..."-change it to *freshman and gay* because that would flow better.

"That I didn't know how to respond."-cut out the *that*.

"But I still couldn't tell my friends to stop because I was too afraid of being called a 'fag' too."-so true to real life...

"getting IT pregnant"-I liked how you had the character refer to him as an it-it makes the whole scene more intense.

I liked the whole beginning-it was a great way to jump into the story.

"I met him a year ago when basketball season started."-this doesn't really belong with the rest of the passage. It sounds like an afterthought, plus it isn't italicized like the rest of the passage-like further proof it doesn't belong, you know? I'd say cut this sentence unless it's really important-then try to work it in somewhere else.

"of short"-of *a* short

"anorexically"-I don't think that's a word...

"I remind myself."-*reminded*-remember to be consistent with tense.

"wanted try"-wanted *to* try

"Scoring a basket."-fragment! Connect it with the sentence before it.

I feel bad for red-fro already.

"awkward looking skinny, red-head"-comma confusion! put it between "awkward-looking" and "skinny" instead (commas go between adjectives describing a noun.

"I grabbed his arm,"-replace the comma with a period. (I dare you.)

"Tod"-judging by wherever else I saw his name, this should have two d's.

"him being was wrong"-being doesn't make much sense here...I think you meant *smiling*.

"dying bloody nose:-*drying*-though it would be cool to have a story about a dying nose...

"Then remembered"-Then *I* remembered-this makes it so the sentence isn't a fragment.

"...hard." I-replace period with comma after a character speaks (random punct. lesson...)

"His eyes jumped to me, almost like he was making sure I hadn't left him to whatever demons he believed to be lurking in a nurse's office."-awesome sentence! (cookie?)

"You look too pale to be healthy. And skinny!"-ha, that's a "nice" nurse.

"she patted his arm"-*S*he

"become of"-cut this "of"

"like he was looking for Blue's clues."-aw Blue's clues! (sorry for my random, uh, outburst).

"I guess."Todd-SPACE between *"* and *Todd*

"though, his body"-a semicolon would make this look/sound better.

"sure, he"-again, use a semicolon-or in this case, you could also use a period.

"...I found myself thinking he was almost cute. Almost."-hmm intrigue..

I can see where this is going to go. I liked it, though I would also like to find out more about Reggie. Keep up the good work!
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