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Pen&Paper Wordsmith
Posts : 121 Join date : 2008-07-06 Age : 31 Location : The International Writers' Institute
| Subject: Out Of My Mind (WaywithWords) Thu Jul 10, 2008 7:09 am | |
| The story's really engaging and intriguing and provides much scope for all sorts of storylines, and the idea of the stone and the mystery surrounding it is developed well, but I think that perhaps you should develop your character further. It's nice that you mention she's a psychiatrist (I'm not wrong, I hope) but maybe you can elaborate more on her lifestyle, her personality, her appearance and maybe create another mystery about her. It'll lengthen the short story a little bit but it'll make the story seem more profound. | |
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WaywithWords Admin
Posts : 87 Join date : 2008-06-30 Age : 34 Location : right now, at my computer....
| Subject: Re: Out Of My Mind (WaywithWords) Thu Jul 10, 2008 1:48 pm | |
| Thank you very much.
And, you guessed correctly, she is a psychiatrist. I'll have my next edit posted in a day or two... | |
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Pen&Paper Wordsmith
Posts : 121 Join date : 2008-07-06 Age : 31 Location : The International Writers' Institute
| Subject: Re: Out Of My Mind (WaywithWords) Sun Jul 13, 2008 6:02 am | |
| I like your second draft! It adds so much more feeling and atmosphere to the story! I see nothing that needs to be improved. | |
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DayDreamer Student
Posts : 26 Join date : 2008-07-12 Age : 34 Location : Face-down flat on the floor with my leg caught in an interdimensional wormhole.
| Subject: Re: Out Of My Mind (WaywithWords) Sun Jul 13, 2008 7:17 am | |
| I also liked it. Despite the apparent uneventfulness of it, there was continual compulsion to keep me interested. I also liked the way the title (working though it is) seemed to suggest the character was driven out of their mind, when in the end she resolved to drive the stone out of her mind instead. There's only one thing I have a problem with, the ending... I MUST KNOW WHAT THE STONE IS But seriously it definitely has much more impact and meaning when you leave what the item is as a mystery. It links the reader to the character in that both want to figure out what it is, but neither does by the end of the story. I guess I'll just have to try to put it out of my mind as well | |
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WaywithWords Admin
Posts : 87 Join date : 2008-06-30 Age : 34 Location : right now, at my computer....
| Subject: Re: Out Of My Mind (WaywithWords) Sun Jul 13, 2008 2:17 pm | |
| Thank you both so much! I'm going to do a quick edit (spelling, grammar, etc.) and then post in in the final draft. | |
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Phoenix Student
Posts : 16 Join date : 2008-07-02
| Subject: Re: Out Of My Mind (WaywithWords) Tue Jul 22, 2008 6:41 am | |
| I love the message this sends. After reading this, you keep thinking to yourself, "what the heck it that thing?" Then you realise you have to do what she did, and forget it.
Can you tell me anyway? Thats if you have an answer. If it was me, I wouldn't have thought of one to go with the theme of the story.
Anywho, it was great. And there wasn't a single dingle thing wrong! | |
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Pen&Paper Wordsmith
Posts : 121 Join date : 2008-07-06 Age : 31 Location : The International Writers' Institute
| Subject: Re: Out Of My Mind (WaywithWords) Tue Jul 22, 2008 7:18 am | |
| Need I say more? Your final edits makes the story draw to a close naturally. Yay! | |
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WaywithWords Admin
Posts : 87 Join date : 2008-06-30 Age : 34 Location : right now, at my computer....
| Subject: Re: Out Of My Mind (WaywithWords) Tue Jul 22, 2008 9:16 pm | |
| Thanks sooo much, Pen.
And to answer your question, Phoenix, I don't have an answer as to what the stone is. In the literal sense, it is just a mysterious stone. I made no back story for it, because I wanted to remain as befuddled by what it could be as my main character was. Symbolicaly, the stone is the main character's repressed stress and her "know-it-all" tendencies all coming back to haunt her. But other than that, it is basically nothing. | |
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