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originally posted in: The Darkness Within - Prologue
4/16/2015 9:30:14 AM
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A few grammatical things. Always be sure to keep your punctuation marks inside of your quotations. [quote]"I will go after the attacker, you go back to the tower.", I walked towards the door...[/quote] Should be written as, [i]"I will go after the attacker, you go back to the tower," I said as I walked to the door. Then, I felt his hand grab mine.[/i] [i]"We have to report this," Garth said.[/i] Whenever, [i]I said, he said, she said, etc.[/i], follows a speaker's dialogue, you use a comma at the end of their sentence and keep it within the quotation marks. That's it. And I try not to nit pick because I make grammar mistakes all the time, just some things to keep in mind. Oh, I did get a little confused when the main antagonist (the guy talking in first person), says about finding out why his friend (Jimmy) and Garth were killed. It's one of the last lines, isn't Garth investigating with Sky? Your story is solid, though, and I look forward to more. One more thing, any critique or corrections I make, I would expect from you to say about my own writing. I'm giving constructive criticism and I don't want you to take it personally because it's well written.
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  • Edited by JarodColdbreak: 4/16/2015 10:03:56 AM
    First of all, thank you for reading and thank you for commenting in such detail! Your post is exactly what I need. You see, I am not a native English speaker. I have been told that my English is quite good BUT I do not write professionally in English, usually. My English language education is a long time ago so things like speech patterns, comma etc are sometimes hard for me! With your comment I have learned something, thank you!! This is the first time in a long time that I try to write a consistent story in English! It is a challenge but with detailed comments like yours I will be able to make it! Also, the last thing you said with Garth, yeah that was an oversight I meant to say Jim. I corrected it. I will also correct the Grammar when I get to it tomorrow, unfortunately right now I am a bit busy. But thank you very much! EDIT: Never mind, I tried to correct it right now. Hope I didnt mess it up haha

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  • It looks good. I try to give as much feedback as I can because I know how tough it can be when you aren't getting the responses you are looking for. Your story is too early in the beginning for me to make any comments or suggestions on it, but I try to give helpful tips on development and different things. I just try to give feedback and be supportive. :)

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  • Thank you, i really appreciate it. I will post more tomorrow!

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