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Prescott fry

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yesterday, I walked into the local library and told them that I wanted to schedule some sort of author reading in order to promote my work. Not only was the librarian extremely helpful, but she also told me that she would go as far as to help me promote throught he daily newsletter. For all those would be authors like myself, who are on the way yet no quite there, use your local libraries to promote whatever the f**k you care about. IF you live in maryland, Prescottfry will be coming to library near you. Shalom!
 

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Do you have any links to your work?
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Van Blaricum

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First of all, the story was hard to find. Your authors page has several tabs to it and even boasts a "community " area. Authors who don't have a lot of work to share yet don't really need to have a " community " so if you are not already receiving daily visits to your web community from a variety of different people, I would remove that, it makes you look like an over eager amateur. Removing unnecessary tabs and areas will only highlight your work and make it easier to find.

Once I finally found your story, it wasn't too bad. I felt like the dialogue was sloppy the new titles were nonsensical. Papers don't really title articles about killers the way they did in your story. If you want it realistic, it wasn't. If you want it cliched dark comic novel goth noir then that's fine. In a dark world of your own, newspapers say whatever you want them to ;)

What I really enjoyed about this story was two things: the way you use descriptive writing to show things, I really dug the train being described as a centipede. I also really enjoyed the ending. Although a little twisty, I did not see it coming, and I did think about it afterwards, it sort of clung to me like when you touch something greasy and then can't wash it off your hands. I remember shuddering later on and thinking about how their really are people out there as crazy as your killer.

Although having a slightly sloppy feel, I liked it a lot. If you keep it up you can be a very solid writer, with your descriptive imagination. Writing dialogue and making things up can be very hard, seeing as how they have to be fake, yet ring true.

When I was reading, the crazy killer newspaper titles reminded me of the newspaper titles in a comic book. I could totally see you developing some hard boiled goth crime stuff with a mindset like this and I like to read that stuff.

All in all, I would say a B. I really liked and was taken by surprise by the ending, I didn't even see it coming.
 

Prescott fry

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First off, I must say thank you for reading the story. As to your suggestioms, I was a bit confused as to the what you mean by sloppy. I had another person say a similar remark and Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you mean the incongruity of the killers rational? How he thought and reasoned was a bit sloppy.

Also, good idea about the. Community tab. I just have it there once I get things. Goin and people wanna really interact.
 
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Van Blaricum

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I'm not sure what I mean by sloppy. I do NOT mean the incongruity of the killers rational. I mean he is a crazy killer so that makes sense, to not make sense. No, I'm just thinking of how the ending is way better than the beginning. The way you write the beginning, his conversation with the lady police, the part where he is reading the news headlines, it just doesn't seems very interesting or strong. In that part, I should like him more or hate him or something. I dunno. It seems sort of boring. I feel like I don't really dig it until its over and resolved.

When reading at first, aside from some great descriptive language I was kinda feeling like it was bumbling along, and boring me. Once we go to the eventual ending, which I didnt see coming, it got more interesting. It's not a terrible story, I really enjoyed how I just didn't see the end coming. That redeemed how bored it made me initially.

Im not sure what to tell you about how to make it seem more interesting, but the intro seems loosey goosey. That's the best I can say I just woke up :sleeping:
 

Prescott fry

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Ok cool. I'll have to put some time into it and think about how I can't make it more dramatic so that I'm not just pulling the reader along on something he doesn't want to ride. Thanks bruh for the advice.
 
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Prescott fry

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I got another story up. Bout to post it in self promotion if you wanna check it out. I def need some advice on this one. There are def certain areas of the story I need resurfaced. But i think it holds together well with what I got.
 

Prescott fry

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I should start by thanking the SKcommunity for all the feedback and advice I've gotten since I joined. Helps out a bunch. Anyhow, this is a short story I recently got back from my editor. It's about thirty novel pages, a little on the long side, but it's centered around a haunted mansion in the town I live by, clear springs maryland, and I did allittle investigative work before I began the writing process.

The Haunting of Stafford Hall - Prescott Fry

Hope you decide to read, and enjoy:)

Prescott Fry