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gigglingtreepixie |
I'm new here -- Hi Everybody! |
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Posts: 4 (01/14/08 23:23:32) |
i love this site!! |
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gigglingtreepixie |
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Posts: 5 (01/15/08 01:42:56) |
heres a tiny bit of what I've got.. i'm very open to critiques and critisms.. (but don't be too harsh lol) ttys i've better get in bed
The woman lived her last days being tortured and starved for a long time before this dreadful week. Maribel Valeria Rosacia was her name. The girl was born in Beauwood to a very wealthy family. A vast wealth uncommon for these times but she was not known for being wealthy. Actually many did not know her. Her family name was looked upon as being a bad omen. People believed that her family was magical; practiced witchcrafts People would often scurry away if they were about to cross paths with a member of her family. They believed many, untrue things about the family Rosacia. The children even had a little rhyme for them. Girls and boys stay away from the Rosacia name Or you could be the one that they help the Devil Claim They trick They treat Your soul they eat With spells and lies Their enemies die They take they plunder To cross them is a blunder They find their power in the night On brooms and demons, they take flight To your homes to your rooms in your dreams Their darkness looms Not ugly, not scary Tricking the trusting Be sure to run, or its you we will bury. They would sing it in the streets, whilst jumping over their rope or running around the streets. They believed that the family was the source of all bad things that happened. Any diseases or illnesses that came about people or crops that had had gone bad. The stores started long before the birth of Maribel and before her father, before her fathers' father. The story changed over the years. In the beginning, it was the truth people talk; an estranged insane uncle had butchered people and was burned at the stake for witchcraft. |
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Posts: 85 (01/15/08 02:52:07) |
Welcome and nice....
Got one typo
- Frankie -
Dutch ambassador to the Seventh Sanctum. "Vag?" "Yes tall one?" "SHUT UP!" "Ok." "Thank you! Now let me get back to Gunnar." |
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Posts: 29 (01/15/08 07:23:02) |
Hi and welcome to the forums! Story looks promisiing that's for sure.
Keep up and in no time, thou shalt be a part of the creative community here. Promise |
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The Lady of Darkness |
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Posts: 2 (07/06/34 11:00:47) |
Lovely to meet you! The story has an interesting beginning, but no especial quirks as yet? I loko forward to seeing them, if you feel inclined to post them.
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gigglingtreepixie |
heres the part before what i posted earlier, | ||
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Posts: 6 (01/17/08 14:19:59) |
i should have put this first,
sorry!
The maid never reached the top of the stairs before they found her. They quickly covered her mouth, and wrapped her up in a sack then took her back downstairs. She heard others running around the house. First the child screaming is heard. Then the mothers scream. The father yells. A loud commotion is heard next. It is the father and some men fighting. Though, soon it goes silent, except for the loud men voices shouting for the family to be silent.
Soldiers arrive with a carriage in tow just in time, as the men are marching the family out of the home. One by one they are tied and bound and tossed into the carriage locking them inside. The soldiers mount their horses and the carriage and they are off just as quickly as they arrived. The family wasn't seen or heard from again in weeks.
The battle had begun with the silent killing of an innocent. No crime of immoral or wicked act had been committed. A single blade to the neck, and she was gone. No screaming from her lips. Only tears fall from her eyes as she looked on, out at everyone standing by watching her death. She was pressed down into a kneeling position. They tied her down. Then, in moments, the head of the woman falls to the ground without a sound. Out of her eye, two more tears fall.
Screams and cries are heard off in a locked carriage. A small, young voice is crying so vociferously. A girl, the age of 11 is locked and chained inside the carriage along with her father. She just witnessed the death of her mother. The girls' father is to be executed next. He is holding his daughter, squeezing so hard. She is bawling and trembling uncontrollably in his arms. His cries are matching hers. He just watched them behead his wife. He knows what it next to come. His death. He knew his daughter would have to watch that at well. The pain he felt, no one should feel.
He had one last option. He would use his death to free his daughter; he holds her head in his hands and looks down at her. "Auvi, I need you to listen to me now. I know it hurts, you can cry later I promise, I just need you to listen to me now. I'm going to undo your ropes, turn around, toward my back." She does as she told, but still upset. Now, "when they pull me out of here, I want you to jump out behind me as fast as you can. I'll cause a distraction, to try and give you time. You need to run. Run as fast as you can. Get away from here. Stop crying now; I need you to do this! Can you do this my girl?" "Yes Father, I can. I don't want you to go like they did Mother. Please, run with me!" She pleads. "I've got it; pull your right arm, there. Now get over behind the door there" He says, pointing at the corner with his head. "I cannot run with you. I'm tied up, you can run faster than me, I'm an old man remember?" "No, I did not mean it. You can run fast!" The child is still crying. Her father was referring to a joke she used to make before any of this happened. When things were great and she was happy. "Please come with me father!" "I'm sorry, but I need to go take care of Mother, you will be fine. Reeves will come for you. You can trust he will. I know he will. He will take care of you. No tears come now." He was staring at her, the way fathers do. He only cared for her life and safety. His only job now was to ensure she got a chance to run. She was an extremely fast runner. He was sure, if she got the chance to run, she would make it. |
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The Lady of Darkness |
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Posts: 9 (01/17/08 15:57:18) |
Hmmm... well, you have a good atmospheric setting, and the action is pretty intense, however, I think that there are some things that you should look at quite
seriously.
The first is tense. Personally, I find that present tense is very cumbersome, and hard to use properly, unless you are using it for a special sort of effect, i.e. in a flashback. This may be your plan, in which case, go for it, it will probably work really well and will ramp up the tension quite nicely. However, you're usage of the tense is not entirely consistent, and there are parts where I think that you struggle to get your meaning across because you are stuck in the present. For example, The soldiers mount their horses and the carriage and they are off just as quickly as they arrived. The family wasn't seen or heard from again in weeks.Here, your use of the past tense is very awkward, and even though I understand your meaning, it is still quite jarring. The second thing is that you are trying to do too much at once. It is an incredibly easy trap to fall into, but amongst all the wonderful detail you are putting in, it becomes a little convoluted and confusing in places. Sometimes, when you're really excited about getting something down, and it is all ready in your brain, whirling and waiting to spread itself over the paper, it doesn't quite settle down into something easily understood by others. You know what you're writing, and what happens next, and which character is which, but your reader does not necessarily have this knowledge that you do. The third thing is really just to keep working and fleshing it out. Each paragraph has so much potential, but it is easy to see your excitement in the speed at which it all happens. It doesn't need much, but a little extra work would really make the world of difference in transforming this from a really good piece into something quite fantastic. Sorry about all this. Someone should have warned you that I tend to go on a bit and be a little harsh sometimes. I really do like this piece and hope that you find something helpful in what I've written about it. You seem to be having some really interesting and wonderful ideas - best of luck with them all! |
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Posts: 89 (01/17/08 16:07:03) |
The Lady of Darkness wrote: You're royalty so you're allowed to do that Edit: I like it allthough it's hard to read for me(2nd language). I don't think I've ever seen that tense before. Atleast not in this amount :P But I like it and your short sentences give the situation the right amount of tension. They make me a bit jumpy too.
- Frankie -
Dutch ambassador to the Seventh Sanctum. "Vag?" "Yes tall one?" "SHUT UP!" "Ok." "Thank you! Now let me get back to Gunnar."
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01/18/08 07:53:49.
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gigglingtreepixie |
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Posts: 7 (01/17/08 21:27:08) |
o wow. i really appriciate the feedback. i will work on it. it really moved me to read your feedback Lady of Darkness. Thats exactly the type of things I
needed to hear so I know. Thanks again. And thank you Frankie as well.
Take care all |
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Posts: 2710 (01/18/08 02:05:33) |
Welcome, welcome. Doubly welcome because you may be the first to arrive after the ezBoard/Yuku change over.
Everything we do is a choice. Oatmeal or cereal, highway or side streets, kiss her or keep her, we
make choices and we live with the consequences. If someone gets hurt along the way we ask for forgiveness, it's the best anyone can do.
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The Lady of Darkness |
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Posts: 12 (01/18/08 03:00:33) |
Thanks for not being angry. I've edited that many essays and short stories by now that I just can't help myself any more! But I am looking forward to
reading more, if you would care to post it.
"You're royalty so you're allowed to do that " I really hope you know that I am going to take advantage of this new authority you have chosen to award me, Monsieur Constantine! |
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