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A nice (but very strange) ode. XD

Oh dear... I feel so cold and callous and (worst yet) critical today. Um. Yeah. So if this critique sounds moody and whatever, I don't hate you. Honest. It's just... ...

I'm guessing that this was passed in at school a long time ago and you're just curious about how the story was, probably so you can improve in your subsequent ...

Hmmm... I think you're being overly vague in the beginning. Okay... so Joy's perfume and pleasant faces. That's nice. Still, it doesn't give us an image in our heads where ...

How dirty... Still! Pretty good! Talking about the triangle thingy?

I think this is one of those weird things that I have to read more of before gaining an opinion. O_o Though I will say that, as of yet, it ...

Well...I love my characters a lot, but I really have no problem killing them. I suppose that makes me pretty cold-hearted, but there it is. :? Well... there ARE things ...

I met smaur on the internet. ;) There are plenty of writing buddies you can team up with who will love to critique your work. All you have to do ...

Get a writing buddy! Or at least a reading buddy. For instance, without the lovely smaur beating me on the head, I would have NEVER written more than 15 thousand ...

Very much so. It's the same way when I write these brutal scenes. It's like, "NOOOOO!" And then you want to kill the bad guys, but I can't because it ...

Hehehe... Tamora Pierce is really the author who got me into writing for fantasy. :)

The more research you can do, the better. You'll find that, as you get deeper into a subject, that it begins to connect with the world and that it's not ...

Never plot. Ever. Ever. Ever. Plotting doesn't let your mind create things which you didn't originally think of. Plotting limits what you can do with a story. No it doesn't. ...

Oh dear... this was written when I believed the first draft should be the final draft... O_o I forget what I finally put, but yeah. The problem's been resolved. ^_^

This was really hard for me as well. What I ended up doing was making each chapter an episode, or a short story within itself. So there is constant conflict, ...