Monday, December 19, 2011

Can you read this short beginning to my story and rate 1-10?

I'd give it a 6.5. Your descriptions are really good, but there are some problems: Does she stop her bike to get the paper? You don't say. Why is she so intent on writing something at the start of summer vacation, enough to make her "insane?" It doesn't make sense without some explanation. Her mother's ankles are showing or not? Why does her mother keep her ankles covered up? Are they ugly or is she a conservative Muslim? You have some grammar,punctuation/spelling mistakes. I have a problem with the names Maurie and Lissa. I don't know how to pronounce them. Is it Maurie like Marie, or like Maury Povitch? Why so weird? Why not Lisa? Or is it short for Melissa? This distracts me as a reader.

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