During the sixth attempt to widen the universe, a creature named Flip Jupiter created the newly frightened and incomparable Kale Arugula!!
While not completely sure why he existed, Kale decided to take a break and sat on a fake chair, and from that position he orchestrated an act of kindness.
Kale kept at hand one of the most beautiful suit, and inside one of the pockets he always found a nice piece of Reggiano cheese.
Bad formatting makes this a little difficult to read. An intriguing start though.
If you now flip this story upside down, you’ll discover the reason why Kale Arugula was created.
What story? This was a big disconnect for me. I hadn't read a story, just a few introductory sentences, certainly insufficient to be flipped upside down.
There was once a girl by the name of Hammerlina Smith. Kale thought she was very beautiful but she really wasn’t, and because she was very little interested in marriage, Hammerlina induced Kale Arugula to complete three difficult trials: recover a potent explosive situated in the basement of Magellan Lasagna, the warlock; paint an abstract work of art (up to a point), and last, create a title of a famous thriller!
The old cliche, "show don't tell". You do a lot of telling here. It come across as exposition, and given that I am not yet hooked it is not the good kind of exposition. You are also head hopping and using authorial intrusion to a degree, in that your POV is Kale, but you are telling the reader things that Kale could not possibly appreciate. The head hopping is acceptable if you are writing in omniscient rather than first person limited, but the authorial intrusion is not.
The house of Magellan was near a gigantic cliff, and easily spotted because its half was missing.
Kale arranged (or placed) a machine gun right by the front door and then stationed himself on the roof and waited.
Again, explain this from the POV. The fact the house is on a cliff provided him with a natural defensive position, maybe.
Meanwhile, but not at the same time, a tree house broke completely and fell on the ground several times; Magellan Lasagna, the warlock, visibly anxious, sparked off a furious thunderstorm that fellatio on the poor Kale Arugula, perplexed only on one side of his face. However, the power of the warlock did not last very long, due to an illness that he was dragging for years, caused by the use of tainted spells.
I think "fellatio" might be the wrong word here, but it made me laugh (unintentionally). "Meanwhile, but not at the same time" is a contradiction. Again, you are telling, this is all tedious exposition.
Kale did everything he could to retaliate, but the poor boy did not know that Mr. Lasagna was protected by two skillful trapeze artists that on their days off were working as sound engineers at the home of chief of police Lieutenant Alonzo Poowhistle.
Telling.
Kale at that moment was wearing a two piece suit very “ciucc’ame’ucaz”, and it gave him the untold strength to knock out one of the flying acrobat with a one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven punch combination.
Telling. We are too removed from the characters. Pick a POV and stick to it. This is trite but: "Strength surged through Kales body; the suit, it was doing its job". See how it is more immediate, see how it gets me inside the character's head? You filter a lot, filtering is when you remove the reader from the character by explaining in turgid detail rather than allowing the reader to experiance the character's emotions.
The left over trapeze artist, who read minds, added the number of words that Kale Arugula was thinking; then, subtracting from the ones that didn't make any sense at the end of each phrase, obtained a number of letters equivalent to the conversation that took place between Magellan Lasagna and him 3 days ago. Enigma solved.
Again, telling.
Honestly, it is a nice idea but it needs a lot of work. You need to pick a POV, and write from that character's viewpoint. You need to cut out the authorial intrusion, the filtering, and you need to get the reader into the action. |
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