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Review of Haunted Hallway  Open in new Window.
Review by Jaye P. Marshall Author IconMail Icon
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Rated: ASR | (4.0)
Hi, I'm Jaye. I just found your story in the Horror/Scary Newsletter dated July 8 and was intrigued by the description.

General Impressions: This is a story that really gets the pulse rate climbing. I do believe that some explanation should be given for their presence in the darkened room.

Characters: Natalie and her fears are entirely believable.

Dialog: No back-and-forth dialog is employed.

Grammar & Punctuation: I found no errors.


These comments are only my personal opinion. My suggestions are made in the spirit of making a good piece even better. Keep writing!

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Rated: ASR | (5.0)
Hi, I'm Jaye. I just found your story in the Horror/Scary Newsletter dated July 8 and was intrigued by the title.

General Impressions: This is a very chilling story where the ending confirmed my suspicions. It certainly kept me on pins and needles.

Characters: You have done an excellent job of portraying Heather and making her entirely believable.

Dialog: Dialog was realistic and natural.

Grammar & Punctuation: I found no real problems with either.

Specific Suggestions:
In this sentence, ‘“Come on Heather.’
Suggest: “Come on, Heather.;


These comments are only my personal opinion. My suggestions are made in the spirit of making a good piece even better. Keep writing!

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Review of Are We There Yet?  Open in new Window.
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Rated: 13+ | (3.5)
Hi, I am reviewing this item per your request.

General Impressions: This is an enjoyable little story, though it does need some editorial work.

Characters: You done a very good job of portraying your main character who comes across as very believable. You’ve also done a good job of getting a lot of Aunt Debby’s character across with her reactions to the things your protagonist says and does.

Dialog: The spoken dialog sounds very natural.

Setting: There is little setting but that seems okay since much of the story is internal dialog.

Format: Suggest putting thoughts into italics in order to differentiate them from regular narrative.

Grammar & Punctuation: There is some confusion between “then” and “than”. Also suggest watching sentence structure for awkwardness.

Specific Suggestions:
In this phrase, ‘who's birthday had just passed.’
Suggest: whose birthday;

In this phrase, ‘another of her looks. I’
Suggest: deleting the extra “I” at the end;

In this phrase, ‘I could possibly be related to these people when we were so obviously different then I.
Suggest: deleting the last “then I” since it is already covered by the previous “we”. (If it were needed, it should be “than” instead of “then”.)

In this phrase, ’life then the small minded, overly religious people of my hometown.
Suggest: life than the small-minded, overly religious people;

In this phrase, ‘to what he became to be.’
Suggest: to what he became.;

In this phrase, ‘My eye’s were getting misty’
Suggest: My eyes;

In this sentence, “I am sorry I am so late daddy” I sobbed.
Suggest: I am so late, Daddy.


These comments are only my personal opinion. My suggestions are made in the spirit of making a good piece even better. Keep writing!

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Review of Kidnapped  Open in new Window.
Review by Jaye P. Marshall Author IconMail Icon
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Rated: 18+ | (4.5)
Hi, I'm Jaye. I am reviewing your piece as a selection for this week's Simply Positive Newbie Reviewers Group.

This is a gut-wrenching poem where you've put the reader right into the mind of this poor little girl. It gave me chills.

I found no errors in spelling, grammar or punctuation.

These comments are only my personal opinion. Keep writing!

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Review of Deception  Open in new Window.
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Rated: 13+ | (4.5)
Hi, I'm Jaye. I am reviewing your piece today as it is a selected item for this week’s Simply Positive Newbie Reviewers Group.

This is a sad poem that bespeaks of the problems lying cause in a relationship of any sort. I was glad that it ended on a happier note with a change in the degree of acceptance of the status quo.

I found no errors in spelling, grammar or punctuation.

These comments are only my personal opinion. Keep writing!

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Review of Rahu's Game  Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (4.5)
Hi, I'm Jaye. I am reviewing your piece today as it is selected item for this week’s Simply Positive Newbie Reviewers Group.

This is a very neat poem that paints a memorable picture of this "god", which I am very glad you explained in your description.

I found no errors in spelling, grammar or punctuation.

These comments are only my personal opinion. Keep writing!

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Review by Jaye P. Marshall Author IconMail Icon
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Rated: 13+ | (3.0)
Hi, I'm Jaye. I am reviewing your piece today as it is a selected item for this week’s Simply Positive Newbie Reviewers Group.

General Impressions: You have a very important message here, but I’m not sure you got across the urgency you seem to feel.

Purpose: My feeling is that you are trying to wake people up to the ongoing war in the streets. You might make your message more powerful clarifying what you are meaning in your opening sentence and by including some scenarios of the happenings there.

Grammar & Punctuation: I found no problems with the grammar, but some with punctuation, particularly commas and apostrophes.

Format: This is all one long paragraph. I believe it would benefit from breaking it up into shorter ones.

Specific Suggestions:

In this sentence, Its messed up jacked up and nobody notices.
Suggest: 'It's messed up, jacked up and nobody notices.;

In this sentence, At least try who knows it may work it may not but at least give it a shot.
Suggest: At least try. Who knows it may work, it may not, but at least give it a shot.;


In this phrase, If nobody stops it how many people
Suggest: If nobody stops it, how many people; and,

In these two sentences, How many parents have to lose they kids? How many little kids have to walk in there big brothers and sisters footsteps? ';
Suggest: How many parents have to lose their kids? How many little kids have to walk in their big brother's and sister's footsteps?


These comments are only my personal opinion. My suggestions are made in the spirit of making a good piece even better. Keep writing!

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Review of You Bleed Me Dry  Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (4.5)
This is such a very sad poem that seems to me to be absolutely full of pain. To me it speaks of the addiction, and sometimes fear, that keeps a person in an abusive relationship - whether physical, phychological or emotional. This is a very moving piece.

I found no errors in spelling, grammar or punctuation.

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Review of Narcissus heart  Open in new Window.
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Rated: 13+ | (3.5)
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General Impressions: This is a very different type of story from anything I’ve ever read before. There did seem to be a lot of “telling” rather than “showing”.

Characters: Characters could be made more believable, I think, by showing them in dialog and action.

Dialog: Dialog is sparse and feels a bit stilted.

Grammar & Punctuation: I found no errors in spelling or grammar. In punctuation, beginning quotation marks should immediately precede the first word of the sentence.

Specific Suggestions:

In this phrase, ' this very good looking man,'
Suggest: "good-looking man" as a compound adjective;

In this phrase, 'but many beautiful women crossed his path before.'
Suggest: "had crossed";

In this phrase, 'planes and forests with butterflies.'
Suggest: “plains and forests with butterflies”;

In this phrase, 'That neither you nor any other woman I will steal my heart?”
Suggest: rewording, perhaps simply removing the "I";

In this phrase, 'you can have as much as a golden as a chariot could carry.'
Suggest: "as much gold as a chariot"; and,

In this phrase, 'where the. Love of the woman you desire can reach it “ '
Suggest: "where the love of the woman you desire".


These comments are only my personal opinion. My suggestions are made in the spirit of making a good piece even better. Keep writing!
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Review by Jaye P. Marshall Author IconMail Icon
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Rated: E | (4.5)
Hi, I'm Jaye. I just found your article in the Static Items listing and was intrigued by your description of it.

General Impressions: I think you did a good job here of getting across how we are each in control of how we react to occurrences and the actions of those around us.

Purpose: Your intended purpose was well served, I believe, and you back up your statements by examples from your own experiences.

Grammar & Punctuation: I found no errors in grammar or punctuation.

Format: Some of the sentences here are very long. You may want to break them into shorter ones.

Specific Suggestions: Suggest spelling out numbers one through ten.

In this sentence, 'I made the choice to belive the things he said.'
Suggest: shouldn't this be "believe the things"?

In this phrase, 'After four years with husband/abuser number 2,'
Suggest: suggest it be "Number Two".

These comments are only my personal opinion. My suggestions are made in the spirit of making a good piece even better. Keep writing!
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Review by Jaye P. Marshall Author IconMail Icon
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Rated: E | (3.5)
Hi, I'm Jaye. I am reviewing your story for The Ten 4 Ten Summer Reviewing Workshop.

General Impressions: I found this to be a very sweet story of young love being unrecognized when the person is too close.

Favorite Part: My favorite part was Jake's response when he was asked why he had fought.

Characters: Your characters are believable and seem to be typical teenagers. You did a good job of showing their relationship through their dialog and actions.

Plot: The plot is clear although your title rather gives away the ending..

Setting: Setting is rather lacking. You may want to add in some description to give the reader a feeling of "being there".

Dialog: Dialog seems natural for teenagers.

Grammar & Punctuation: I have listed several specific items below. In this sentence, 'It could have been that I liked a jock and I Jake and I were emo, but that was beside the point.'. you may want to clarify the meaning.

Format: You may want to tighten up the description of the attire, including only what moves the story forward.

Specific Suggestions:

'My gaze lingered on the pink heart shaped patch that cover the rip in the knee. I remember how it’d gotten there, you see, my best friend Jacob Christopher and I were walking in the woods one day. '

Suggest: 'Heart-shaped patch; Ending sentence after 'there' and delete 'you see' as this sounds to me like "author interference".

In, 'We were playing around and Joke accidentally pushed me too hard.'

Suggest: Name should be "Jake"

In, 'picked up my book bag before turning off my bedroom and leaving for the school. “Hey Novalee!” yelled Jake from behind me.'

Suggest: Should this be "bedroom light"? The quotation should begin a new paragraph.

In, 'I was half way out of our neighborhood.'

Suggest: "halfway"

In this sentence: 'And there fought Jake and Joey.

Suggest: Reword to perhaps, "And there were Jake and Joey, fighting."

In this sentence:' “It’s whatever,” he said.

Suggest: Would this be more realistic dialog if you deleted the "It's" and said just "Whatever"?


These comments are only my personal opinion. My suggestions are made in the spirit of making a good piece even better. Keep writing!
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Review by Jaye P. Marshall Author IconMail Icon
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Rated: E | (4.0)
Hi, I'm Jaye. I am reviewing your article for The Ten 4 Ten Summer Reviewing Workshop.

General Impressions: I felt this was a very good piece that should provide a lot of good advice and inspiration especially for beginning writers.

Favorite Part: I loved how you ended the article with the reminder to proofread one's work.

Format: I only noticed one minor glitch in the formatting. In this phrase, 'change the names and places to disguise the characters you are writing about.' There are severl extra spaces between "the" and "characters".

Specific Suggestions: I only have a couple of specific suggestions that you may want to consider.

In, 'all the parents to-be are sure to be interested.'.

Suggest: Making this "parents-to-be".

And in, 'Proof read or better still get some friends to proof read your work.'

Suggest: It should be "proofread". I noticed that SpellCheck does not catch the separate words since they are both good words.

These comments are only my personal opinion. My suggestions are made in the spirit of making a good piece even better. Keep writing!
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Review of Valentine  Open in new Window.
Review by Jaye P. Marshall Author IconMail Icon
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Rated: 13+ | (4.5)
Hi, I'm reviewing your piece on behalf of the Simply Positive Review Forum where you are listed as one of this week's selected reviewees.

The is an interesting poem that sort of gives me the feeling of a near obsession with a person's writing. It wasn't clear to me whether this was a person you actually knew personally, or if it was the writing itself that was so attractive.

Since I don't write poetry, I'm not sure how far "poetic license" goes. However, the grammar and punctuation in the following lines disturbed me:
In, 'A Valentine poem or song I have never write', technically this should be "wrote" but that wouldn't rhyme with your next line;
In, 'You’ve captivate me can’t control myself', "captivated would be grammatically correct, but would change the meter;
In, 'Cupid Cupid where ever you are' there are missinig commas after the "Cupids" and I believe "wherever" is correct; and,
In, 'With this beautiful soul you have entwine me' it should be "entwined".

These are only my suggestions that you may want to consider.

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Review of I'm Special Too  Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (4.5)
Hi, I'm reviewing your piece on behalf of the Simply Positive Review Forum where you are listed as one of this week's selected reviewees.

This is a very sweet little poem that shows what an ego boost just a small compliment can be. I think you've stated it very well.

I found no errors.

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Rated: 13+ | (4.5)
Hi, I'm reviewing your piece on behalf of the Simply Positive Review Forum where you are listed as one of this week's selected reviewees.

This is a very sad, almost depressing, poem of what seems to me feelings of worthlessness because of aloneness.

I found no errors in spelling, grammar or punctuation.

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Review of Mary  Open in new Window.
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Rated: 13+ | (3.5)
Hi, my name is Jaye and today I'm reviewing this piece that I found on the Newbie Listing for the Simply Positive Newbie Reviewing Group.

First, let me welcome you to the WDC family. I hope you find this as enjoyable an experience as I have.

This is a very eerie tale that certainly grabbed my interest and carried it through, but the ending left me with some questions. Did Mary have some sort of clarivoyant talent that she knew these people would be killed? What effect did the old house have on her - the whispering inside, the renovation and never inviting him there again?

In the last paragraph, you mention four people being killed in the car, yet it was mentioned earlier that he was waiting for his mother and father to pick him up, so that would be only three.

You might want to add a line between paragraphs for easier reading.

Some editorial suggestions that you may want to consider: 'I remember how much(many) toys she had;'; 'body would convulse as if she was(were) on fire.'; 'talked to me as had we(as if we had) seen each other every day '; 'so I decided to play Mary a small prank.' (play a small prank on Mary); 'The reaction I got from her was un-expected(unexpected).'; ' “I’m sorry they’re all dead(,) Pete.'; and, 'The truck driver, a 48(-)year(-)old man,'.

This story has a lot of potential and deserves the additional work it may need.

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Review by Jaye P. Marshall Author IconMail Icon
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Rated: 18+ | (4.0)
Hi, my name is Jaye and I'm reviewing your piece on behalf of the Simply Positive Newbies Review Forum where you are listed as one of this week's selected reviewees.

First, let me welcome you to the WDC family. I hope you find this as enjoyable an experience as I have.

This is a very expressive poem that I feel does a good job of describing the resulting feelings of this behavior with which it is very hard to deal.

A few editorial suggestions that you may want to consider: 'Cowardly and well(-)orchestrated acts'; 'A wolf in sheep(')s clothing'; and, 'in my face to this long(-)term assault.'.

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Review of A Girl Like You  Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (4.5)
Hi, my name is Jaye and I'm reviewing your piece on behalf of the Simply Positive Newbies Review Forum where you are listed as one of this week's selected reviewees.

First, let me welcome you to the WDC family. I hope you find this as enjoyable an experience as I have.

This is a beautiful and moving piece where you've done a really good job of "picturing" the feelings of meeting that Special Someone and falling in love. Nicely done.

One editorial suggestion that you may want to consider: 'And the world seemed brand(-)new.'.

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Review of Rainbow Moon  Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (4.0)
Hi, my name is Jaye and I'm reviewing your piece on behalf of the Simply Positive Newbies Review Forum where you are listed as one of this week's selected reviewees.

First, let me welcome you to the WDC family. I hope you find this as enjoyable experience as I have.

This is a good poem where you have painted some beautiful pictures of natural wonders. I am interpreting these as a comparison to the feelings between two people in a relationship.

I found no errors in spelling, grammar or punctuation.

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Rated: E | (4.5)
This is a good poem where you've done a good job of getting into the baby penguin's point of view.

I also liked the way you sort of drew a parallel between the chick and a human child - or grownup for that matter.

In this line, 'Like the black feathers on my back, that only show when I turn around,', would he/she know this? Perhaps on "others' backs" would be better.

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Rated: 13+ | (4.5)
This is a terrific, and very insightful, story that is very well written and flows nicely.

Tell your son that I think it's a great story and I sincerely hope he continues to write as he gets older.

I found no errors in spelling, grammar or punctuation.

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Rated: E | (5.0)
Hi, I just dropped by your port to begin fulfilling the reviews offered in my Package in the Hearts from Heaven Auction.

This is a beautiful and moving story where you've done an excellent job of showing the struggles that a problem such as this creates for all concerned. Henry's complement brought tears to my eyes.

A few specific editorial suggestions that you may want to consider: 'third grade there was a chair(-)throwing incident,” '; 'Trying to prepare myself to(for?) the challenge '; and, 'I will not do word(-)find worksheets.” '.

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Rated: E | (4.5)
Hi, I found this piece in this week's Author's Newsletter where the title and description really intrigued me.

This is a beautiful little piece that brought a lump to my throat and tears to my eyes, it was so moving.

In your desciption, 'How can a person answer that question form a voice on the cell phone?' should it read "from a voice"?

A few editorial suggestions that you may want to consider: 'I have a hands(-)free cell phone '; 'Are you there(,) God? '; and, 'and you’ll(I'll?) give you my favorite dolly. God(,) I love my Benny, could you help him(?) Please? ';

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Rated: 13+ | (4.5)
Hi, I found this piece in this week's Author's Newsletter where the title attracted my attention.

This is a beautiful story that I found very moving. So much so that it brought tears to my eyes. I loved the overall feeling of positivity that was evident in the care given.

Suggest putting thoughts into italics in order to differentiate them from regular narrative.

A couple of editorial suggestions that you may want to consider: 'its modern and up(-)to(-)date Victorian decor'; and, 'I am at yet another cross road(crossroad) in my life.'.

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Rated: E | (4.0)
This is a really cute story. You've done a good job of assigning all of the animals mentioned personalities that were very interesting.

Some editorial suggestions that you may want to consider: 'long ago when the world was knew(new),'; ' “I say(,) mate, but you could use a tail'; and, 'Croc yawned as he though(thought) of an idea.'.

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