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Old 02-16-2004, 12:02 PM   #1
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An Epitaph

i'm deleting my short story due to some personal reasons...
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Old 02-16-2004, 02:11 PM   #2
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Hey, few things:

You need to clean up your grammar a tad here, 'and' and 'but' etc. The connecting words are being used far too often to start sentences. Also the word too instead of to, but thats a simple typo.

"Perhaps I have been carrying the coffin of our friendship’s corpse… " This was really out of the blue, I didn't expect the character to say something as angsty as this.

"Dia was Saumya’s best friend. Though Ria was not in contact with Saumya, but Dia used to tell Ria what she thought she should tell." ... huh? Might just be me, but that didn't make much sense...

It has a lot of loose ends, which need to be filled out and then you'd get something very good to read.
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Old 02-16-2004, 10:32 PM   #3
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Old 02-17-2004, 12:24 AM   #4
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“…haan?”. And she again heard someone calling her name “Ria…”. But as always there was noone. She shrugged her shoulders. And questioned to herself Am I going insane? And in reply she just heard an echo of her own sigh. Earlier she used to think that if you hear an invisible voice calling your name… probably someone is missing you. But later she understood it as her own soul wants someone to call her name. But now such an illusion, like hearing her name in solitude is followed by nothing more than a shrugging of shoulders and then a sigh.

“…Haan?”.< (Capital H and No period)

"Ria," the voice called again.

Ria scanned the room again and asked, "Haan, is that you?"

No answer. Nothing but silence. She felt a cold chill shimmy through her body, raising bumps across the surface of her skin.

"Am I going insane?" she asked, her voice echoing off the walls. She let out a heavy sigh and reached for her diary. A friend had told her once that 'if you hear a voice but there is noone around, that means someone misses you.' She wrote down the date and time of the voice, noting the conditions of the weather as well. Perhaps it really was someone that missed her, perhaps it was nothing more than an over-tired mind playing tricks, perhaps she was ... Nah! She dared not think of that possibility.


~~[Prini, you need alot of work on your story telling- You have the basics, but it comes out flat because of how you word things. Look up on the internet about "Show don't Tell" to find some real good advice about writing, it will help your style tremendously- Please don't get discouraged, you have a good imagination, you just need to develope your grammar and character development skills better. Read lots of books and note how the writers form their scenes and note the words they use.]~~
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Old 02-17-2004, 08:38 AM   #5
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Hey Nazareth!

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Prini, you need alot of work on your story telling- You have the basics, but it comes out flat because of how you word things. Look up on the internet about "Show don't Tell" to find some real good advice about writing, it will help your style tremendously- Please don't get discouraged, you have a good imagination, you just need to develope your grammar and character development skills better. Read lots of books and note how the writers form their scenes and note the words they use.
I’m feeling very stupid at my mistakes.. and I love what you’ve come up with… my god! U’ve written an awesome piece … I’m really gald that u dropped in to comment on my story. Ya! Now I know exactly what I need to do with this. Probably I was quite in hurry to complete this story. U won’t believe but I completed it in 15 minutes. Phew! And I guess that was a major reason behind its drawbacks. At least now I know what to do with it.

I’ll revise it soon. And will be looking forward to ur view on it. It’s nice meeting u Nazareth.

By the way! “Haan!” is a Hindi word which means “Ya!” . It’s not a name or anything. It’s like when u hear someone calling ur name u reply “haan?” –it means “yes?”.

I’m grateful to u for ur help!

Thanks a lot.

Wishes,

Priya
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Old 02-17-2004, 11:47 AM   #6
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please don't feel stupid- that's not why I wrote the critique I did- It just sounds to me like maybe you're struggling with the english language? Nothing wrong with that, it will just take alot of work to conquere but will be easier if ya join writing groups & post often- Again, read alot of books too to get a feel for how they phrase scenes and actions etc.

Ah, Haan = Ya?, k that makes it a bit different then- Doh! I thought it was a name hehehe.
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