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@phoenix

Thank you! You may tell me what I did right (what writer doesn’t want to hear that?), but please don’t hold back if you see something problematic.

@taylorclogston

I haven’t seen ET, and naturally get a lot of fire for that. That being said, the story plot for ET sounds a LOT like my story. They even share wounds? I actually based the monster’s appearance more off of a thumbnail I had seen of Slenderman.

Well, in the early stages of writing the story, I had several directions I could go for…[Read more]

@vivian-grant I’m glad I could be useful! By ET, I meant the movie, not trying to imply the creature was an alien. Like, the “befriend a child, share wounds with it, looong fingers, adults don’t really know what’s going on, hospital tries to contain it, escape, happy ending for benevolent misunderstood creature.” Which is also very different from…[Read more]

@taylorclogston

Thank you for the feedback! It was extremely helpful, and I admit I laughed a couple of times at the way you phrased some of the flaws. I was not ever trying to be corny, but now I certainly see it. The alternate ending with Olivia sounds appealing, but it also sounds a bit convenient, not to mention a tad outside her character to…[Read more]

Good job on not showing the “friend” for a while. The suspense is good. Mentioning the snake made me wonder if it was tied to the monster, and then the ugliness and the burning had me wondering what sort of monster we were dealing with. I like the gradual pace of introducing characters, and that you attach them to a genre archetype so the reader…[Read more]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gdmvzwkkj5z8ndm/The%20Friend.docx?dl=0

@taylorclogston Thank you for the alternatives, and for pointing out that the link didn’t work.

@vivian-grant As far as I’m aware, not in the same exact functionality with editing and commenting and decent privacy settings built into a tolerantly responsive editor.

There’s always pastebin for simple sharing, though other people can’t comment on the page. There’s the online version of MS Word, which probably functions similarly to Google…[Read more]

@taylorclogston

Thank you. Are there alternatives for people who don’t have a Google account?

@vivian-grant That link doesn’t work. It looks like a download link from an email inbox, which isn’t going to work for anyone not logged into your account. Most people around here host on Google Docs and then use the link sharing function in it.

https://dl-mail.ymail.com/ws/download/mailboxes/@.id==VjN-5ddQNCZJVGeCmJqzRi7RTPYFN0Ct03fcSHneDBeV_w3y-2QqdJ6rv83o8jDt6UkYOstHGQ2SvOzuBlPC52QM-g/messages/@.id==AEjNDcdz5Y6iXnAougymSH941jw/content/parts/@.id==3/raw?appid=YMailNodin&ymreqid=e0659ccd-63ec-97cb-1ccb-f8000001a600&token=zitEzqOML3j84e6ealFTT5U7-km5qEQF52lp7AcCuBYwtMyO26yH0Bbh4y5OqUbN0Wq0…[Read more]

@christlover Your story sounds really cool! I would love to read a book like that. 🙂

@the-inkspiller

Thanks for the link! I’ll have to read a story or two sometime.

@vivian-grant

I have not actually written anything I’d call horror yet, although I have some ideas. I could see how that’d be difficult though. I think with other stories I’ve gotten the advice of focusing more on what the characters are feeling, rather than what…[Read more]

Mine is something like “Groundhog Day/ Happy Death Day.

Basically there is a super hero who’s power makes it so that when he dies he will restart the day. The super hero, however, is not allowed to change anything that they do. They simply have to hope that the people around them will notice irregularities and realize what happened, thus changing…[Read more]

@anne_the_noob14 – Yes, the BBC show with Benedict is set in modern London. I was a bit skeptical at first, but they did an excellent job converting the Victorian era in the books to the present day (Watson and Holmes call each other by their first names, Watson blogs about Holmes’ cases instead of posting them on a newspaper, things like that.)

I personally love the Sherlock Holmes books. I have not seen any of the Sherlock Holmes movies or tv shows though.

I also really enjoy the “Father Brown” mysteries by G.K. Chesterton. I would definitely recommend them.

@joshuapior

Oh gosh. I have read very few mysteries XD Like, literally the only mysteries I’ve read are Sherlock Holmes lol. Oh. Actually I take that back. Is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a mystery? Cause I’ve read that. And if any of Edgar Allen Poe’s works are mysteries, I’ve read them.

I shall do my best, though! Let’s see. Oh gee. I’m gonna have…[Read more]

@bigideaskc

I love the books! And the movies with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. The ones with Arthur Wontner and Ian Fleming are ok too, but I like Basil best. And I’m not a fan of Reginald Owen as Sherlock. At all. I’m sorry, Owen… XD

Woah. RDJ plays Sherlock?? *is not sure about this* Not that I think he’d be bad as Sherlock… but I’m…[Read more]