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Undereducate
10-25-2008, 03:34 PM
My first post on dodian as well as my release of the opener of a novel

-----I actually remember that day like it happened yesterday. The shrill terror that rode down my spine like a roller coaster. The aroma of burning flesh floating among the soot filled air. The way I couldn't see two feet in front of me. I had my right sleeve torn off from shoulder down and tied that over my mouth and nose to protect myself from any toxic chemicals. And I ventured through the streets of Beijing toward the evacuation point seven and a half miles from the disaster. But as I soon found out as I closed in on the point, what happened was not what I expected and I soon found out that I was not alone on my trip.
-----What happened over the Past Twenty-Four hours was horrifying. Before it happened thirty some military fighter jets, fifteen air force helicopters filled front to back with troops and hundreds of humvees went trough and over Beijing. Soon there after the radio informed us of a possible breach on the International Astral studies space station which at the time was supposed to be orbiting the moon. But due to solar tremors and our former planet Pluto's catastrophic eruption into a star everything was out of wack, even the night stars weren't visible all we could see was a murky purple glow. About thirty-five minutes after that radio broadcast the daytime sky was being torn open by millions of these small black specks, they weren't falling they were just floating there. I quickly went to the closest enclosed space I could find which was the nearby massage and spa building, I went downstairs and then it happened. Looking through the window each black speck lit up one by one and plummeted at nearly the speed of light and small explosions across the city were visible. In a matter of twenty seconds the whole city was up in smoke and I was out like a light soon there after.


A minor preview :]

RockOnDude
10-25-2008, 03:44 PM
pretty good keep up the work

Undereducate
10-25-2008, 03:49 PM
thank you, yes i will keep working on it, this is the second Novel i have attempted, the first novel got lost when i put it on a USB drive and then deleted it when i transfered it over to my old comp which broke down.

The Zaven
10-25-2008, 03:52 PM
I like the start of it. But remember not to use numbers in context, please spell them out. Also alot of the words were mispelled.

6/10

aharper
10-25-2008, 03:53 PM
Dude this is awsome keep it up :eek:

Italy68
10-25-2008, 04:03 PM
Its good.

mercenary
10-25-2008, 04:23 PM
Please proof read it, there are MANY grammar errors.

Undereducate
10-25-2008, 07:07 PM
I only proofread whenever I finish a chapter, also I made the mistake of writing the numbers for those select ones and I wrote the others out, but I corrected that.

muslimz
10-25-2008, 07:23 PM
nice one 8/10

Undereducate
10-25-2008, 11:40 PM
thank you :] suggestions are always welcome but may be subject to criticism by myself

K E W L
10-26-2008, 12:07 AM
Lookin good. :)

619hit
10-26-2008, 12:09 AM
nice a lot of people are good artist!~

Jesse
10-26-2008, 12:38 AM
Be prepared for a hard critique, Undereducate.

Here's what I noticed:




Missing commas
Misspelled words
Confusion in adjectives; overuse of adjectives.
Poor sentence variety.
You used conjunctions as a beginning to a sentence more than once.
The hook is good; however the rest is disappointing.
Unneeded capitalizations
Here's one I'll be picky about: You were describing things excellently before the second paragraph. In the second paragraph, however, your descriptions became lax and you began to just tell what was happening, rather than showing what was happening.


Over-all rating:

4/10 - Poor.

The Zaven
10-26-2008, 12:51 AM
Be prepared for a hard critique, Undereducate.

Here's what I noticed:




Missing commas
Misspelled words
Confusion in adjectives; overuse of adjectives.
Poor sentence variety.
You used conjunctions as a beginning to a sentence more than once.
The hook is good; however the rest is disappointing.
Unneeded capitalizations
Here's one I'll be picky about: You were describing things excellently before the second paragraph. In the second paragraph, however, your descriptions became lax and you began to just tell what was happening, rather than showing what was happening.


Over-all rating:

4/10 - Poor.

lolwut

Benz, even though the sorrow need for me to be a Literary Artist, I am not going to post like that to every thread. :l

Stecki
10-26-2008, 12:54 AM
wow nice, 10/10 so far man great job

~stecki

kuzmin
10-26-2008, 09:22 AM
I'm always suspicious if the person who posts this stuff actually did it, but if you wrote that gj..

Undereducate
10-26-2008, 12:43 PM
I am going to agree with you benz on how i did that, i do it alot, and i kick myself every time i write something i have a problem where randomly i will capitalize things, and i get into writing something so i forget about putting commas in, and even then i get bored of writing after about 30 minutes so i end up trying to finish what i am doing and i don't put alot of detail into it, thank you for your criticism and im gonna go back later and try and fix it up, maybe re-work that second paragraph.

Blub Klub
10-26-2008, 03:48 PM
Wrong section. Should be in Works in Progress. But it seems pretty decent compared to a lot of work on here.

X Blake X
10-26-2008, 03:52 PM
Nice , Man.. (:

-Ibrairiff

Undereducate
10-27-2008, 07:28 PM
blub klub stop trying to be a wanna be mod. Its not a work in progress because i'm not actually adding to this thread. I was previewing my work to the community.

Blub Klub
10-27-2008, 07:53 PM
I'm not being a wanna be mod. You never said you weren't going to release it to the forums,so I assumed you were going to. Calm down.

Undereducate
10-27-2008, 08:47 PM
im calm as can be lol, i'm just making sure you understood