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Old 04-16-2008, 09:20 PM   #16
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    The disgusting irony of words never escaped Tiegan as she woke up to Dane gently rubbing her shoulder. “Wake up… We are home(.)” The words seemed to fall from Dane’s lips like gentle drops of water. She wanted to jerk away from him but as her body tensed to move panic filled her that Dane might take her actions as rebellion and punish her. Yes, indeed we are at your Home Monster, but this will never be MY home! She cursed at him in silence,(.) a(A) home as a place you felt secure in, felt loved in, a refugee (I think you mean refuge?)from the torments of life. This place was going to be nothing but a life of torment! Just another prison for her! Another cell she would be caged in until this owner got tired of her screams.
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She hated Dane so much at this moment,(.) h(H)is touch was gentle and his features seemed to be both soft and caring(.), w(W)hy couldn’t he be ugly and deformed and spewing forth spit and venom at her like the hideous thing she knew he was inside.(?) She fought back her revulsion and submitted fully to his touch like a good little slave. The sale was done and she was his possession now, his little helpless slave,(.) t(T)here was no point in putting on this façade any longer.

Dane let out a minor sigh as he dropped his hand from her shoulder and climbed of the carriage. Once he was on the ground he smiled up at her. “Come… it is time to meet your new master.” He extend(ed) his hand to help her out of the C(c)arriage(,) but Tiegan looked at his outstretched hand like it was some strange object.

Masters don’t offer Slaves helping hands and kindness(,) so seeing Dane stand like some moronic stature(statue?) with his hand held out(,) she could not stop the fear of distrust as it flared openly across her face. Hope was a fickle mistress never truly letting you go and pangs of wanting to trust Dane crept into her. He seemed different, for now. The few times she had received the illusion of compassion it was always to try and drop her defense, to find a weakness within her that could be exploited to intensify her trauma and suffering. You can’t Break what is already Broken(,) Idiot! You can’t rape the willing either! Just do it! Or is that your stupid Problem! I am too willing for you! She wanted to scream at him ‘You want my tears and my fight? Too Late!(,) Stupid!’ her mind filled with the words but her lips fell dead silent.

Dane stepped back and gestured in a rather showmen ship(showmanship -- but this is a noun and there is no adverb, which is what you need here) manner towards the ground (.) “By all means(.)”

She fumbled her way out of the carriage(,) trying to avoid Dane in every way afraid that touching him the slightest manner would be enough (of -delete word) trigger to excite or anger him. ‘Please, just put me in a corner and I’ll be quiet, I promise(.)’ She wanted to beg but knew such pathetic pleas for mercy always feel on deaf ears. Dane let out a long sigh as he held the door open for her.

“Careful now(,)” he cautioned to her as she fumbled her way to the ground while clutching the carriage handrails as best her broken and deformed hands would allow. Every movement was a vicious fight for balance, her ankles had been shattered long ago preventing her from walking correctly. As if that was not enough to appease her long list of sadistic owners of the past(,) her toes had been broken and folded over under the pads of her feet preventing her from supporting herself on anything but her heels. A cynical smile crossed her lips at Dane’s words of concern. How hollow it sounded for him to say ‘(C)careful now’,(.) w(W)as he worried that she might break something new on the way down and deprive him his on (one?)single joy upon (are you sure you want this word?) her? “Don’t worry your ugly little head Monster, every inch of my skin has felt the pains of abuse, inside and out,(.) t(T)here is nothing left for you(.)” s(S)he wanted to curse his mock kindness, but such fire has(had) long been extinguished and she nodded(,) focusing on the ground, trying to be careful like Dane told her to,(.) s(S)he was a good slave after all, she obeyed her masters('s) commands.

Tiegan let her mind wonder(wander) a bit,(.) that (delete word)m(M)aybe he wanted her to be careful was(delete was) because her new master did not want her whorish blood on his nice clean streets,(.) a(A)fter all(,) they were very clean streets,(.) n(N)ot even the hint of dirt or bundles of horse hair on them,( they looked pristine like they had just been swept.

Most of the time however new owner wanted the sadistic glee in being the first to hurt her. Have these imbeciles realized not realized they were too late, over a hundred years too late.

Getting out of this Carriage was going to be a task as for as foppish and easygoing as Dane appeared wearing a moronic looking puffy aqua and lavender shirt trimmed with lines of gold tassels which made him look like someone slapped a rainbow sail over his head and tied it on with some rope he had the annoying skill of being able to surround her without seeming to move.

No matter what she did he was always just inches from wherever she moved. “GAH ! Drag me out and rape me or let me do this on my own!” she screamed mutely at Dane wishing that her eye could talk but knowing that if it could she would have neither of them left. Dane stepped back from her with his eyes burning intently towards her feet, such concentration on so soft a looking face seemed surreal to Tiegan.

A single thought wailed though Tiegan’s mind“He heard me!as cold fear rippled deep into her chest taking away her air as she began to silently grovel towards Dane “No ! No I didn’t mean it!” praying that Dane could also hear the deepness of her remorse as She tried to step down from the carriage. She dropped her foot down trying to touch ground with her heel.

Panic clouded her judgment of things while her eye was focusing on the overbearing colors of Dane shirt her grip on the carriage handrail slipped throwing her off her balance just enough that her bent over toes rammed into the cobblestone pavers.

Pain exploded though her body. Her knees buckled as her vision blurred. She wobbled trying to fall back onto her heels while jerking her other leg down for balance. Delusional from pain she unwittingly slammed her other foot into the ungiving stones. Her vision filled with bright spots of light as the taste of rust filled the back of her mouth.

She bit hard into her lip to stop her tears and the acid that was bubbled up inside her mouth from spilling forth in fear of messing her new master’s nice clean roads. “Let me pass out and die here you monster!” She wanted to curse at him as she dangled from the handrail of the carriage. Dane said nothing as he glided under her, shifting her arm over his neck and cupping her hips with his hands. Dazed but now supported Tiegan let her entire body go limp to Dane’s touch.

”It’s ok… I have you” he soothed to her. “Please, I’ll be good, I promise, please” she wanted to sob to him but she knew better then to speak out towards her masters. It would only excite them on. Dane let out a minor huff as he shifted his grip and then tossed her over his shoulder. His shoulders were hard and wide for how weak his outfits made him look but gave her a broad platform to rest across as he carried her up the stairs towards the massive doors of her New Masters keep.

Tiegan closed her eyes trying to escape this world wishing that she could just leave behind a lifeless husk for these twisted things that passed themselves off as human.

Tiegan’s world spun and her mind filled with a dense fog as she bounced along on Dane’s shoulder while the two of them passed though the ornate craved black doors. Slamming her eyes shut after looking at the heavy gothic doors for only the briefest of moments. She did not need to see this world around her or that doors had images of daemons and faces frozen in pain craved deeply into it. Tiegan knew exactly what the face of Daemons of Pain looked like; She has been calling them “Master” since she was twenty years old.

Tiegan could not generate enough care to even open her eyes when Dane lowered her off his shoulder. He had not dropped her, quite the contra he dangled her off the ground by slipping his arm under her armpits and holding her in the air like the meat puppet she was to him.

“Let me go! You imbecile!” she wanted to curse at Dane but her flare of bitterness burned out as quickly as it came and all that happened was she dropped her head submitting this display by her Masters. Hold me, Pease, I’ll be good! Don’t drop me! Please!”she begged Dane with nothing but a soundless tremble of her lips once She finally opened her eyes and realized that her bent over toes where just an inch from dark hard oak floors.

To Tiegan a hard floor right under her pain ridden feet was immensely important, so much so, she began to cling to Dane’s arm. However she could just not drum up enough care about the rest of this place to even look around the room. She learned the truth of her world a long time ago and that was; No matter what location she was at, she was always in the same place; At the mercy of some cruel sadistic owner.

Mercy that would never come.

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Hi UG,

I don't have time to finish, and I don't know how to work this correction stuff very well, but put some things in brackets for you. I do mechanics and yours do 'suck', as you so charmingly say. This is a sad story and it is taking awhile to get to the point. Can you shorten it up a bit? I'd like to know what the point is.

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Hi UG,

I don't have time to finish, and I don't know how to work this correction stuff very well, but put some things in brackets for you. I do mechanics and yours do 'suck', as you so charmingly say. This is a sad story and it is taking awhile to get to the point. Can you shorten it up a bit? I'd like to know what the point is.

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First off, thank you very much for your assistance I will be looking into what you have provided me. Every Bit helps, even things I don't want to hear.

I can see where you have pointed out where my Grammar is messed up and now you realize why I don't correct others!

Just to clear up perhaps a confusion issue:

The Story is not an action packed thriller, it is about a slave that is getting her life back. A story of hope, redemption and romance.

It is a womans story of overcoming her past and dealing with her present, with some hot steamy love scenes thrown in for good measure and several people getting split in half towards the end, all staged in a Medieval setting of swords and magic.

A very typical romance novel.

Perhaps the expectation that I was going to write something more 'over the top' is throwing people because of my posting style is setting an odd feeling?

Perhaps I'll put up something that has a bit more "Grudge/Edge" to it later.. but I don't feel a call to write those stories. I am trying for a sweet tear jerker... am I failing?

Thank you again, very much, for your Critique, it is greatly appreciated and enlightening.

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P.S. Why does this "I do mechanics and yours do 'suck', as you so charmingly say." worry me a bit?
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Old 04-21-2008, 01:14 AM   #18
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Sorry if any of this has already been mentioned, but here's what I saw.

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She cursed at him in silence, a home as a place you felt secure in, felt loved in, a refugee from the torments of life.
Two things with this. One is that I think 'as' there is supposed to be 'is', right? Two is that you spliced two complete sentences with a comma. (She cursed at him in silence - A home is a place you felt...) You do that a lot. Don't. Established writers can get away with it sometimes, but unless you're Hemingway, stay away from it. If you absolutely must have those sentences grouped, use a semi-colon. Otherwise, separate them.

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She hated Dane so much at this moment, his touch was gentle and his features seemed to be both soft and caring, why couldn’t he be ugly and deformed and spewing forth spit and venom at her like the hideous thing she knew he was inside.
Again, comma splicing out the wazoo. Plus, there are a few redundancies. "Spewing forth spit and venom at her". Nix the 'at her'. You've already told us that she wants him to be spewing forth, so the addition of 'at her' just tells us something we already know. Also, the phrase 'spewing forth spit' is redundant. Spit comes out of your mouth anytime you spew anything forth, so it's pointless to say it. Just spewing forth venom is a much more compelling way of putting it.

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She fought back her revulsion and submitted fully to his touch like a good little slave. The sale was done and she was his possession now, his little helpless slave, there was no point in putting on this façade any longer.
Another comma splice in the second sentence. Plus, a little bit of repetition. Nix the 'little helpless slave' in the second part--we already get it.

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Tiegan let her mind wonder a bit, that maybe he wanted her to be careful was because her new master did not want her whorish blood on his nice clean streets, after all they were very clean streets, not even the hint of dirt or bundles of horse hair on them, they looked pristine like they had just been swept.
Terribly convoluted sentence because of comma splicing. You don't need such long, painful sentences. They're like barbed wire around the neck of your writing. Simplify!

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Most of the time however new owner wanted the sadistic glee in being the first to hurt her.
Typo, perhaps? 'owners'? Or maybe 'a new owner' or something the like.

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Getting out of this Carriage was going to be a task as for as foppish and easygoing as Dane appeared wearing a moronic looking puffy aqua and lavender shirt trimmed with lines of gold tassels which made him look like someone slapped a rainbow sail over his head and tied it on with some rope he had the annoying skill of being able to surround her without seeming to move.
Here's another painful sentence to read. Not a single comma splice in sight, but so many dependent clauses that I forgot the first part of the sentence by the time I got to the end.

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Panic clouded her judgment of things while her eye was focusing on the overbearing colors of Dane shirt her grip on the carriage handrail slipped throwing her off her balance just enough that her bent over toes rammed into the cobblestone pavers.
The only reason that this isn't a comma splice is because you forgot to put the comma in there. I suppose that's a step... erm... maybe. Plus, I think you mean that to be 'Dane's shirt'.

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She has been calling them “Master” since she was twenty years old.
You switched to present tense there for no apparent reason.

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She learned the truth of her world a long time ago and that was; No matter what location she was at, she was always in the same place; At the mercy of some cruel sadistic owner.
Too many semi-colons for one sentence. Plus, you didn't use them right either. A semi-colon joins things (like your comma spliced sentences, for example) whereas a colon tells you something's coming. Like, "There was only one thing I could do: hide."

Now, all that said, I like this story. And I already figured out that this wasn't going to be a high-action, shoot-em-up, torches and pitchforks kind of story. Nothing wrong with that. The romance genre really needs some new angles, and if you keep polishing this one up, I'd say it'll turn out to be a pretty good read.

You have some serious punctuation issues, though. You use commas where they're not needed and don't use them where they are needed. You should probably google it or something, or check out this thread here. I should mention that I didn't point out nearly every comma splice I saw or place where a comma was needed, so you really need to go through this on your own to find them.

I think there was more I wanted to say, but alas, I've forgotten what it was. Oh well. Pretty good story. Keep writing.
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Sorry if any of this has already been mentioned, but here's what I saw.
Thank you !

Any critique is good and this has been insightful. anything you can say is a good thing and I am thankful that you took this time to look this over.

I have already re-written this and had someone correct the grammar for me. I just have no talent or skill with grammar for some reason or another.

Which is why I don't go picking on anyone else

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You do that a lot. Don't. Established writers can get away with it sometimes, but unless you're Hemingway, stay away from it. If you absolutely must have those sentences grouped, use a semi-colon. Otherwise, separate them.
Noted, I'll go through my work and check this again now. Very good point and it does indeed seem to be a problem of mine.

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Now, all that said, I like this story. And I already figured out that this wasn't going to be a high-action, shoot-em-up, torches and pitchforks kind of story. Nothing wrong with that. The romance genre really needs some new angles, and if you keep polishing this one up, I'd say it'll turn out to be a pretty good read.
Thank you very much for your insight and points. I will now take this and apply it as best as my skills will let me to my current manuscript.

And thanks for the Motivation on that part that this might be a good story, I was kinda feeling that this might be a lame story to write as it did not fit the "Fantasy" genera.

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You have some serious punctuation issues
I know it! But it is your efforts that allow me to see it. Thank you again for your time and efforts!

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I think there was more I wanted to say, but alas, I've forgotten what it was. Oh well. Pretty good story. Keep writing.
Thank you again!

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