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AGE: 27
LOC: Denver, CO
GEN: Female
LAST LOGIN: December 31

It’s amazing.  I know it’s time to change my password when comments appear in my profile that I assuredly didn’t write.

Anyway.  I’m a lawyer.  I write fiction because I love it.  I only post when I’m on a last draft and need the initial reaction to (usually opening) chapters before I send them into the wild world of rejection that is querying agents.  So I do write, and all of you that I may have critiqued will get your shot at me eventually.

But I do check my email if you have something to say to me.

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Journal, Diary, & Blogging / Six Word Memoir
by alexianx
Priceless. I have now copied this, pasted it, and will keep it forever to remind you. You are best when you are more like this and less like your usual self. And yes, I know this isn't a proper review, but I couldn't pass up the opportunity. -cc
Novel Treatments / Prologue
by Alice_Headband
Hi. I'm struggling for the right way to say what I think about this. So if sometimes I'm a bit harsher or more blunt than I mean to be, don't take it as an affront. What I see going on here is a complicated tangle of good and bad, and a hard problem to verbalize. There is some genuinely nice language in here. I like the reversal on the usual saying in the first line. It takes an otherwise overused platitude (never mistake compassion for weakness) and gives it a hard edge. "Meaning flits somew...
Horror / Conflict in the Night
by Anonymous
What can I say? Sometimes even I get bored. This could be better. A lot better. In fact stylistically, it's a mess. Sure, it's better than most of the internet writing dross--but you know that you're better than the herds, so spare me the standard dose of arrogance, hm? Would you sell this? I wouldn't buy it if I were an agent, but I know you, so I may be biased. I will say that the writing is amateurish by your standards, however, and you've passed the point where you get precocious points (...
Short Story / Poetry Killed My Dog (Revision)
by onlywish
Well... this is a workable beginning. I can tell that you primarily have written poetry in the past, because it has many of the things that can make poetry work, which, in this case, seem a tad bit awkward in a short story. By that I mean experiments with language, carefully chosen words, alliteration ("subtle yet superior scent") and a stylized presentation of teh subject of the story. My advice - keep that stuff, becuase it gives you an interesting style and some technique tricks unknown to...
Short Story / A Lucid Moment
by jlcampbell
J.L., This is a difficult review to do, knowing how close you are to the story. On a purely objective level, there are things I think would make this stronger as fiction. On a personal level... only you really know how that story's supposed to go. In a way, I think this kind of story is almost more dangerous to the writer than anything else because it's impossible to get distance and you're always struggling with the right way to show real people. There are things I like. I like the use of th...
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