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Old 04-20-2008, 10:16 AM   #16
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You have a few choices to go from here, Industrial... #1, make it longer and include Jim or set up parallels with where Jim is now #2 Get rid of Jim (I like Jim, so don't) or #3 Refocus the story to what exactly happens with Jim. What I get halfway through the piece are some huge events which could be their own novels. I mean, you have grandma dying, the mother dying... the house going up for sale, the father happy about all of it somehow. These a big things and Jim is so small and specific in comparison that it really makes this piece feel split.

Still, I was happy to stop and read this.

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Old 04-20-2008, 10:39 AM   #17
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not trying to offend, I think you should tie some of those nice sentences together into something we call "paragraphs."
umm, the title is dangerous, kinda intimidating. maybe thats what your after, though.
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