Reviews for The Epitome of Innocence |
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![]() ![]() ![]() 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! |