I'm not a skilled enough critic to be nice. To be nice while telling someone their work is crap takes a degree of finesse that takes years of...
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In that case, I think it works. Those characters don't need to come up again. That opening scene was more to help set the tone or some elements of...
That could work, too. It could be made that the violet tv stuff is a metaphor for the otherwise mundane happenings or something. Point it, it...
Is the petrol station scene more indicative of what the rest of the story is about than a guy watching tv? If your story was more about this guy's...
The beauty of the new age is they don't have to because they'll be dead and their kids will grow up familiar with this technology. My brother...
It helps if you make the reader care about them. It also helps if they don't die arbitrarily or to artificially raise the stakes but that the...
Wikipedia knows all. Funny thing about werewolves is that they don't have a Dracula. Closest to a classic novel with a decent amount of fame is...
I don't write, unfortunately. I haven't written anything of substance in years. But ideas keep popping into my head. They don't stop. So I look...
Fixed that for you.
The sentence describes a year teeming with miracles and natural disasters. I think the reader will think that was an eventful year without needing...
This is probably worth noting because it's usually where poorly written story become "illogical." When a writer fills a story with unlikable or...
You have a weird definition of "good story."
Man, even complaining that there is nothing original isn't original anymore.
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