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crabrock posted:chit me with chor best chot One-Eye, Two Eyes, and Three Eyes.
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Entenzahn posted:in with peter pan Novel. Not a Fairy Tale.
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Jan 28, 2015 09:33
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but it's the disney fairy tale version
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Jan 28, 2015 09:51
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In, I'd like a tale assigned.
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In, I'll take Sleeping Beauty.
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I goddamn love fairy tales. I'm in. Hit me.
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Hey Neth, since Fanky allready did a week about folk tales, will you be making a distinction between folk and fairy tales, or would they be kosher?
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Benny the Snake posted:folk tales Your answer is hidden within your question
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Entenzahn posted:ok fine then just give me something Thumbelina. A Classy Ghost posted:In, I'd like a tale assigned. The Bremen Town Musicians. Tyrannosaurus posted:I goddamn love fairy tales. I'm in. Hit me. The Princess and the Pea. Nethilia fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Jan 28, 2015 |
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Line crit for SadisTech's Black Metal Week story. Sorry these are taking so long, everyone.SadisTech posted:Prompt: The Miasma and the Leprosy HIT PROMPT? Yes (The Miasma And The Leprosy) WORD COUNT? Yes RANGE OF EMOTIONS? Not really FLASH RULE? Hit (Arithmetical incontinence) Overall thoughts: You hit the prompt and did a great job with the weird flash rule. You told a story and it was suitably metal. I'm a sucker for the lyrical epic style and I'm glad you made the attempt, BUT... even with a ton of forced phrasing, it still managed to suffer from some stumbles of rhythm. There were awesome passages and dreadful passages. I also kinda wanted to know what happened to the villagers at the end - I think it might have benefited the story to use some of your 210 remaining words in a short epilogue. This might also have helped you hit the "range of emotions" rule, which I wasn't really feeling otherwise.
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I'm in. Ala Baba and the Forty Thieves, if possible.
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curlingiron posted:Ok, I'm in, hit me. 835 words Maria had not expected to see herself when she opened the door, but there she was, breezing right past her and into the house. Good work on the intro. It immediately settles us in to a surreal universe as per the prompt “We need to talk,” her doppelganger said, heading for the kitchen table where she sat down with an authoritative air. Maria followed, pulling a seat out for herself and sitting tentatively. “I’m sorry, but… What’s going on?” “Come on, Maria, don’t be stupid,” her other self said, glaring fiercely in a way that Maria vaguely remembered once seeing in the mirror. reinforcing that this is indeed herself in a subtle way, good job “You’re miserable, and I’m tired of it. It’s time to get out.” “What? Get out of what?” “This!” the other her gestured around herself angrily. “The misery, the lying, the trappings of a life you never wanted! What on earth have you been thinking this whole time? Did you really manage to convince yourself that you were happy?” Maria looked around herself at the house. The walls and furniture seemed suddenly too vivid to be real, as though the place that she had spent the last ten years of her life was an advertisement printed on an over-glossy page. She wondered how she had managed to not notice before now. (I’m not much into surrealism, but that bit about how everything looks too vivid like a glossy ad is a really nice touch) “Hadn’t it occurred to you that you’re not who you meant to be?” Maria glanced sharply back at herself, who now appeared substantially younger, in her twenties, with the traces of worry and care that had begun to dog Maria’s face now rewound and erased. That was really akward. Try breaking it up into two different sentencesMaria reached out to her and recoiled in alarm at the sight of her own hand - wrinkles and veins suddenly sprouted across it in a web, and spots of age marred her knuckles. “What are you doing to me?” Maria said, touching her wizened hand to a face that was sagging and shriveling beneath her fingers. Her other self, across the table, smiled sadly at her. “Nothing you haven’t done to yourself.” (Dorian Grey is facing his own image) Maria stood and rushed to an ornate, full-length mirror in the hallway, it’s too-bright glass reflecting her face in perfect, harsh detail. Wrinkles that had started near her eyes and forehead blossomed across her face, deepening and spreading their tendrils in fractal folds. A bruise appeared along her jaw and faded; a livid scar flushed one cheek and then washed to a pale crescent. “Has he hit you yet?” her other self asked from behind her, a teenager now, with dark, imploring eyes. “No,” Maria said, tracing the scar with a bony finger. “He would never.” “Wouldn’t he?” A child stood behind her, her eyes wide with fear. “I…” Maria turned around. A baby lay behind her in swaddling clothes, eyes closed in a fitful sleep. A note was pinned to her front like a foundling: Save us. She picked up the baby in trembling, arthritic hands, and held the tiny bundle to her chest. She turned around, searching, lost. Her eyes settled on the door, and she took her first, agonizing step towards it. Her bones ached, but she kept moving. Her joints screamed, but she kept moving. Her muscles tore and stabbed at her, but she kept moving. good descriptions of her physical state The paper veneer of the life she had been living crinkled and tore around her, and from the blackness behind it burst chains of gold and diamond, rings and bracelets, and wreaths of lilies, her favorite flower. They twined around her legs and sang to her, stay, stay. Her wedding ring burned on her finger like a torturer’s iron. She felt herself slow. This sentance should be part of the following paragraph A mewling came from the precious cargo she carried, and she looked down to see the baby fade and disappear, leaving nothing but the blanket she had been wrapped in. The ring on her finger burned a dark hole through the soft material, until it began to smolder and singe, finally burning away into nothing. All that remained was the ring, tightening like a vice around her ancient, care-worn hand. Maria screamed, a sound that started deep within her and that reverberated out and through the cardboard diorama of her life. It shattered the chains that bound her, melting the gold and burning the lilies. Diamonds and jewels turned to dust and blew away. The magazine ad furniture, the house, the garden, all melted like spun sugar left too long in the sun. She wrenched the ring off of her finger, and with it, the years fell away, peeling off like a shed skin. She threw it to the floor, and her old life crumbled around her, subsiding into nothing. It started to rain, softly, a warm shower touching her new skin. She stepped out of what had once been her house and gazed at the sky. Slowly, dazedly, she fished her phone from her pocket, surprised that it was still there after all that had happened. She opened it and dialed a number she knew by heart. “Hi, Mom? Um, would it be okay if I came and stayed with you for a while? Yeah, I thought it was about time.” Somewhere inside her, her other self smiled. If surreality is dream logic, then for me personally it’s supposed to be uncanny--real enough to fool yourself and yet slightly off, just enough to put you at unease. This story is a really good example of that and it’s a really heartfelt story of a woman coming to terms with her abusive relationship which is an unfortunate reality for many women made more unfortunate in how many still remain. The only flaws that really stood out to me were the run-on sentance and some paragraph condensing. Otherwise, this was a good story.
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Is it too late/am I disqualified from getting a critique? I haven't written anything in a while and want to see how I stack up.
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contagonist posted:Is it too late/am I disqualified from getting a critique? I haven't written anything in a while and want to see how I stack up. Link me to your piece and I'll crit you. Hillock and SH your critiques will be up tomorrow.
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LOU BEGAS MUSTACHE posted:benny maybe you should learn how to read before you learn how to write dude relevant: Benny the Snake crit
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LOU BEGAS MUSTACHE posted:benny maybe you should learn how to read before you learn how to write dude anyone can crit e: viz: The marks are from my initial speed read when i judged. They have been revised where they were over-generous. Further judgebelches to come, and line-by-lines for everyone i gave a flash rule to. Benny Profane: The Last Corpsewitch Lots of good words and texture and Maga is a fine old DGAF apocalypse biddy but really who cares? Witch wants to end world, witch ends world. C+ Hammer Bro: The Screaming of Goats I’ve got something of a powerful loathing for trick endings, and having your ending be ‘lol she’s a goat’ definitely counts. You’re robbing actual story peter to pay dumb trick ending lulz paul and it pains me, Hammer Bro, it pains me in the bit where I keep my feelings (points to heart). Pretty solid words and dialogue, though. B- Hotsoupdinner: Insufferable Commandments of the Pagan Shrine There’s enough yattering on about wounds and stitching in it that this is like a black metal first aid course you go on to get a $0.50/hr bump in your pay grade or something, and the ploddily laid out world building takes up time you could have spent developing imore of an actual story. AND THEN I KILLED AND THEN I KILLED AND THEN I KILLED might be metal but it is definitely dull. Tolerable words, though. C+ Megazver: Insufferable Commandments of the Pagan Shrine My joke story meter is honking its ridiculous clown horn and spinning its rotating bowtie right there in the first para, haha, the town of Polka-Mazurka, oh my stars and garters that’s just goold my brother. But then you just sort of loll around in the joke and it’s faintly embarassing like a drunk uncle at a wedding. But I like the way you hang your sentences together, and the Crimson King marching in an irrational polyrhythm is actually pretty funny so you can have a B- ZeBourgoisie: P-Type Engineer Hm, cutting, cutting, this flensing knife I’m holding loosely between two fingers is really sharp and I hope I don’t OH NO I accidentally cut the first eleven paras of your 600 word story and made it better, how about that. You have 1 (one) worthwhile thing in this story which is the image of the carcases suspended by sinew. I gave you a C+ for that, for some unfathomable reason, I’m downgrading you to a D because wtf is the point of this wibble bibble WeLandedontheMoon! The King of the Whores Haha you sneaky saidbook twatnugget, look at that. You basically get away with it, but it’s a thing we grumble about for a reason, always consider swapping a saidbookism for ‘said’. This is good heavy metal album cover fodder and there’s a decent narrative throughline but as my negro sittinghere pointed out you cut before the actually interesting bit where not-rumpelstiltkin comes back to get his whoregelt. I liked GATHER YOUR ARMY FOR THE BLOOD-ORGY, too: B- Necrosphinx: Coffee disintegrates the night So there’s a sort of word salad in media res thing you got going on here that really doesn’t work very well, and that muddles the impact a bit when you’re throwing around jawbreakers like the perfidious peaks of splendid engorgulation or w/e but I actually rather like the gore-clotted hypergothic vibe you’re running with here, so I’ll bump your C- up to a C+ then knock it back down to a C for tense errors because they rustle my cyberjimmies no end SchneiderHeim: The Royal Scam This one bored me somewhat poss because of all the ceaselessly raging eructations of screaming midnight etc in the previous, but it’s a tolerable enough tale; more on the ‘what happened next’ side of things than the FEEL MY THESAURUS ROAR side iygmm. A bit too much as-you-know-professoring and endless bland rows of dialogue without much in the way of interesting voice, but I will allow that my initial B- was correctly allocated. Benny the Snake: The Screaming of the Goat Fyi I just read crabrocks crit of your space story, and for a crab who is also a rock he makes some good points, that scarecrow line was killer don’t you think? Let’s have another read… (note ellipsis) huh. So there’s your usual clumsy phrasing and cardboard characters, and some kind of strained thing about the sheep and and the goats (from tv’s famous the bible) and then bam literal judgment day. C- Nubile Hillock: Agitated hunder of the kittens of grandiloquent infinity Haha jesus check out that title A++ would smile faintly again. Then frown because TAUT =/= TAUGHT HILLOCK U ILLITERATE MOTHERFUCKER. But that said, this actually has solid juice and a nice flow to it; pity you didn’ t quite stick the landing because that’s more the beginning of the story than they end, you feel me. Cut a hole in your side and pull out a B, I implanted it in you earlier (sorry should probly have asked 1st) Leekster: Black sea Dude I’m super glad that your wargaming night went well but here’s the thing come in close because I’m gonna whisper this in your ear all quiet and menacing like I thought I was gonna get a story not a badly written and unfinished AAR do you understand me C- downgraded to a D Auraboks: Embers of the Xenocidal Queen Haha this actually owned pretty hard, because black metal really is ridiculous, isn’t it? And more important you actually had an actual believable human emotion at the core of it that was clear and incongruously sweet. Lots of clunkers in the words, mind, and you didn’t quiiiiite manage the tone all the way through but I’m minded to chuck another + on the B+ I gave you first time round no need to thank me Tenniseveryone: revealing cthulhu Dude how do you make cthulhu working in a strip club dull just how? It’s like a master class in loving up a deranged premise. I mean not spoiling it in the title is one way I guess but NOOOOOOOOOOOTHING in this story actually matters, does it. A guy sits in a loving chair then sees The Joke (which you spoiled in the title remember) then the story ends. You could have called this story CTHULHU IS A STRIPPER (4 words) and it would have, been, if not better, at least not much worse. Go and ponder your sins in a tibetan monastery or s/thing tennis, you disgust me. C, revised down to a D. Ironic Twist: Serpenteen Ahhhh I just worked out why this puzzled me the first time I read it you switch characters 300 words in then do it again. If you’re gonna do that (and probalby you should try real hard not to in a sub 1k story) at least give me a *** to let me know ok cool glad we had this chat but that aside wtf, dude. There’s decent words but as you know that only gets you so far; I’ve read this three times and I’m still basically befuddled about what happens and I just stopped caring about it it is straaaaangely liberating B- revised down to C PoshAlligator: the hunger that burns Sorry gdoc, couldn’t be bothered, but you’re not terrible so it was porbably ok I guess? Have a B- Crabrock: some artificial raspberry flavouring comes from the anal gland of a beaver This was really good but the ending was too cheesy, I think you could have done the second to last para in a way that kept the unsentimental tone of the rest and kept it in sync with the narrator’s voice up to then. A- Newtestleper: Revenge of the Crimson King It’s is only short for it is, newt. DM Screaming idiot: void vampires This is competently written 40k fanfic that hits the sub-Pratchett mark it was aiming at. Doesn’t stick the landing, though, don't spend all your time setting up the pieces then run away giggling. B+, revised down to a B Grizzled Patriarch: Body of the host Oo yeah this is tight and nasty, and sells both the present tense and the richly nasty voice of the posessor. Doesn’t quite justify its contextless approach but the overall effect is strong enough I’m still happy with an A- sebmojo fucked around with this message at 06:35 on Jan 29, 2015 |
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You're all illiterate.  In with Koschei the Deathless.
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Only way to get better at critting is by doing more crits. While I know y'all have reasons to be hating on him, give Benny a break here.
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In.  Beauty and the Beast Dr. Kloctopussy fucked around with this message at 07:00 on Jan 29, 2015 |
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Jan 29, 2015 06:34
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:Only way to get better at critting is by doing more crits. While I know y'all have reasons to be hating on him, give Benny a break here. 
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Thanks for the crit sebmojo.
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Hey, it's not what I meant, but thank you for the crit, Benny! I appreciate it. 
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Broenheim posted:relevant: Benny the Snake crit curlingiron posted:Hey, it's not what I meant, but thank you for the crit, Benny! I appreciate it.
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Black Metal Week crit for Your Sledgehammer (note: My offer is still open to DQed people from that week to request a crit if you want one) The Acolyte So a man is in a trashcan being forced to say terrible things, and then another man says a terrible thing and the crowd of hecklers turns on him. Then the protagonist tiptoes away. I can only imagine him creeping cartoonishly offstage while staccato, ascending piano notes play each time he takes a dramatic sneak step. But so ok, then you shift gears and inform us, in a lot of detail, that he's actually a cult victim in some Scientology compound. He packs for his trip and we learn his background in detail, and then he walks up to a fence, AND THEN! a conflict appears. In the form of a cigar smoking guy. Only he just lets the protagonist go. Helps him, in fact. The end. So the story is, "A guy walks out of a place." The background stuff doesn't even give a clue why he was in The Hole, or really what The Hole is. I assume it's like some sort of prison or shaming facility, but there's not much to go on. He just walks out, so it can't be too locked down. And like I said, I've got no clue why he's there. Disagreeing with Scientology I guess? But that's his only real character trait. Scientology is also pretty low-hanging fruit in terms of "stuff your reader will instantly feel negatively about." You should've introduced David earlier. I mean, you mention him, but without any context whatsoever. Why not show the protagonist in The Hole. Have David come talk to him. Maybe David is the devout leader, but privately, to his prisoner, he gives small signs that he's not feeling so zealous about body thetans anymore. Then when the protagonist makes his escape and finds David at the fence, there'd be some genuine tension, and it would be a pleasant surprise when David lets him go. I kinda hate saying "this is what I think you should've done," but honestly plot was really unbalanced and didn't really feel like a standalone sequence of events. Sitting Here fucked around with this message at 10:00 on Jan 29, 2015 |
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Judgeburps part the first I will do some longer crits later of stories I feel I can offer the most insight on. The stories mainly fell into three categories this week. There were ark stories which tended to be the worst of the lot, all exposition and not much else. Then there were some sci-fi action adventure stories which were mixed. Then there were high concept pieces which I generally found incomprehensible. My two favourite stories were notable exceptions to this. JCDent - Two wolves yadayada Liked the dilapidated spaceships, appreciated the attempts at humour but they mainly fell flat. Biggest problem was that the story took forever to happen, and there was so little plot to it. 732 words before anything happened, and only one thing happened in the whole story. Schneiderheim - Let There Be Light The concept of folding sickness was cool, but cool concepts were plentiful this week and there had to be excellent execution to stand out. The close was clunky in some places, but I think it was hurt more by a few places where the plot fell over a little. I thought this was very competent and made good use of the wordcount with its story arc. tenniseveryone - The Last Man in Space This fell somewhere between the space adventure and high concept camps. My main problem here was that the tone was really off, a really weird combination of hamfisted retro-nostalgia (hoverboards) and a sort of horror ghost story vibe. Also the prose was overwrought and you tried to fit way too much stuff into a small space. leekster - Shifting Sand I thought there was quite a lot of bad writing in it, I especially thought the first and third sentences both had clanging errors. I did like the setting and tone. The reunion was more interesting than some of the others here, and being a bit different is probably what saved you (barely) from a DM. One of my least favourite stories of the week. Crab Destroyer - Seedship Stowaways Stowaways on an ark ship could be interesting I guess, but the plot here was laughably bad. Like his parents I hated the protag he seemed like a loser. No wonder they didn't want him on their ship. Plot = Man looks for wife. He finds his parents. The end. What a load of crap. When I had finished reading this I had it down as a loss, though I changed my mind for reasons that will soon become clear. Jitzu_the_Monk - The More Things Change The spaceship wasn't very interesting, and neither was the relationship between the protag and the girl. I think there was a story in here about the protag realizing his sexuality, but I found it very confusing, and not in a good way. Whichever way you slice it his kissing the bully at the end was creepy, either he was pretending to be gay to creep him out (homophobic) or he was sexually harassing him. The end was rubbish here too, umbrella ex machina. Benny the Snake I was thankful that this was a lot better than your brawl entry. Guerrero's (terrible name) decision to go to war seemed like bull crap. The cheating seemed to come from nowhere. The c-section made no sense. I do feel like the prose was slightly less naive feeling than some of your other stuff, but only a little bit. This didn't hit the prompt either. There was a reunion but if there was a spaceship you could barely tell. asap-salafi I mean I think there was quite a bit that wasn't great about this, but apart from one thing it probably would have been a safe mid. That ending was loving horrendous. I've talked a bit about bad endings but this was the only one that made a lie out of the rest of your story. Telling us that the pilot is the daughter by mentioning her eyes and then pulling the rug out from under us by having it turn out she's not is not a plot twist. It's loving lying you bastard. When M Night Shmaylmanlan finds a backer for his fiftieth film he'll still be struggling to write a 'twist' this rubbish. The thing is I actually think you might have thought it was somehow clever. I hope this clears that up for you. I immediately had this as a DM but it festered in the back of my brain and ended up disgusting me so much I had no choice but to give it my vote for the loss. ZeBourgeoisie - A Wizard in Space I didn't like this because the spaceship wasn't neccesary to the story. The wizard could just have well been getting energy from Mount Doom or whatever. It wasn't A Wizard in Space it was a Wizard in Fantasyland with a space sticker. Also this piece hinged on having amazing vivid descriptions of all the crazy energy poo poo. They were just boring. It was still a middle of the road effort, I liked his wizardfriends. Entenzahn and Benny Profane These stories both stood out to me, and I'm going to talk about them together. They were both rollicking space adventures that made incredible use of the word-count. So much happened in both of them, they were both riveting. They also used the prompt extremely well, with both the reunion and spaceship aspects absolutely necessary to making them work. They both had good characterization and an interesting setting that we only saw glimpses of- there was no unwanted exposition. The reason that BennyP got an HM and Entenzahn didn't was that Entenzahn's had quite a few writing inaccuracies, enough to take me out of the story. It was a very close thing though.
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I'm out this week. If you want a reaction from me for your story, pm me with it. I'll only do it once, so make it your final draft.
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leekster posted:Link me to your piece and I'll crit you. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3691539&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=17#post440732430
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I know that my spaceship story was late by half an hour (for which I'm still kicking myself) but if anyone has any thoughts on it they might offer I'd be grateful. Not looking for a line crit or anything in depth. By the way, blanket thank you for any crits received on my work so far; I'd thank you each time but I'm trying not to poo poo up the thread.
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SadisTech posted:I know that my spaceship story was late by half an hour (for which I'm still kicking myself) but if anyone has any thoughts on it they might offer I'd be grateful. Not looking for a line crit or anything in depth. you're fine geezer, i thought it was pretty good. I'll do you a crit tomorrow.
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December Octopodes posted:I want in. Since you didn't pic a fairy tale, I pick one for you. The Red Shoes Schneider Heim posted:In this week, can I have a fairy tale, please? The Goose Girl
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LOU BEGAS MUSTACHE posted:it was just funny is all lol  Fight me, bitch
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