Originally posted by kiekan
I think, overall, its a pretty decent read. A few things, though: The dialogue seems a little forced and the characters seem a little too stiff. Alot of the dialogue is pretty cliche, too. For example, "Don't do anything stupid Arcana. If you do, the guilt will consume you." Not trying to be a jerk or anything, but it sounds like you took that right from Star Wars or something, lol.
I wasn't really trying to be cliche but I ended doing it anyways. LOL I guess some originality always helps.
Originally posted by kiekan
Also, at least for me, it gets a little menotonous to keep reading "the husband" or "the wife" or "the man" so much. Without some form of identification or some other way to bring the reader's attention to the needed character, it really gives the characters a seemingly unimportant role.[/B]
I did that cause I wanted the reader to have a sense of mystery to the characters. Plus the female name is Jen (short for Jenova) and the male who helped them is named ArKana so there are some names thrown around..
Originally posted by kiekan
And finally, there seems to be alot of filler in the story. Does the reader really need to know everything that happens to the people in the crash? It sounds to me, like you added alot of the "injuries" to to take up some space and extend the length. All we really need to know is that the Husband is dead and the wife is dying.[/B]
You would have to blame Dean Koontz for that. I love to right the way he writes. Gives me a full sense on what happened and how. I would've just said,"the 2 cars crashed killing the husband and the other 2 sustained injury." Kinda bland at least in my opinion. When I read something I want some detail and I assumed alot of people are this way too. Oh well can't satisfy everyone.
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But despite my criticism, good job. I'm pretty curious to where this is going. [/B][/QUOTE]
I highly appreciate EFFECTIVE criticism, and you have given me some. Thank you. I have finished this story up but typing it is a pain in ass. (plus it doesn't help that my handwriting is sloppy 😐).
BTW any suggestions on the next chapter. I might just rewrite some of the chapters. Just for heads up this will NOT take place in the marvel universe.