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26 Jul 2011, 7:31 pm

I need help on my writing I was hoping someone here could collaborate with me on any story. Any ideas or suggestions or tools to help me finish will be appreciated.

If you have unfinished stories you would like me to read please post them here or post a link to them.

If you want to read one of my unfinished stories click or copy the link;
Fate's Horizon Link Click Here



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26 Jul 2011, 11:56 pm

First page of fates horizon, might want to change

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He hadn't slept for at least four days

to two or so day's (the brain starts hallucinating after around three days).

And, it seams a bit spares on detail. Other then that i can't really make any suggestions.


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27 Jul 2011, 9:19 am

Titangeek wrote:
First page of fates horizon, might want to change
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He hadn't slept for at least four days

to two or so day's (the brain starts hallucinating after around three days).

And, it seams a bit spares on detail. Other then that i can't really make any suggestions.


I agree with you, the story is light on detail, I'm working on that but it's a slow process. I created a simple wikipage to build an encyclopedia of this fictional universe.

Wikimagination The Fate Horizon (I don't expect you to read it)

The idea behind wikimagination is to have authors write encyclopedias on their book, you can describe any imaginable detail about the

Also I doubt it was intentional but you called the story "Fate's Horizon", I think that's a better title than what I had.



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27 Jul 2011, 11:31 am

wcoltd wrote:
Titangeek wrote:
First page of fates horizon, might want to change
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He hadn't slept for at least four days

to two or so day's (the brain starts hallucinating after around three days).

And, it seams a bit spares on detail. Other then that i can't really make any suggestions.


I agree with you, the story is light on detail, I'm working on that but it's a slow process. I created a simple wikipage to build an encyclopedia of this fictional universe.

Wikimagination The Fate Horizon (I don't expect you to read it)

The idea behind wikimagination is to have authors write encyclopedias on their book, you can describe any imaginable detail about the

Also I doubt it was intentional but you called the story "Fate's Horizon", I think that's a better title than what I had.


Correct, i forgot the "the", lol


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27 Jul 2011, 12:17 pm

I wasn't correcting you. I really do think its a better title.



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27 Jul 2011, 12:21 pm

Oh :D


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28 Jul 2011, 10:44 am

Titangeek wrote:
Oh :D


Hey thanks for reading, I made revisions largely with your comments in mind.
It still needs plenty of work though I think it has gotten better.



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28 Jul 2011, 3:02 pm

The first sentence,read out-loud, feels like a run-on sentence. Especially with the repeated 'it was.....it was'. However, now that I am commenting, I don't know whether it is considered your 'signature style' in writing; is it just a conflict with my own style of writing?
If only there was a professional to do it.


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28 Jul 2011, 5:49 pm

Infoseeker wrote:
The first sentence,read out-loud, feels like a run-on sentence. Especially with the repeated 'it was.....it was'. However, now that I am commenting, I don't know whether it is considered your 'signature style' in writing; is it just a conflict with my own style of writing?
If only there was a professional to do it.


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It was more than a demonic cancer, it was the burden of watching her family sacrifice everything in the fight to save her. Her parents buried themselves under an impossible debt, and despite all their love and effort it seemed they were going to have to bury her too...


I know what you mean. When something repeats like that it can really bother me too. I can't think of anything to replace "it was" with.

Do you know a way we could write that any better?

I tried changing the punctuation.
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It was more than a demonic cancer. It was the burden of watching her family sacrifice everything in the fight to save her.



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28 Jul 2011, 7:00 pm

With my writing style, I would join the sentences with a semi-colon. As in:


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It was more than a demonic cancer, a burden, of watching her family's sacrifice. In the fight to save her wilting existence, her parents buried themselves under an impossible debt And despite all their love and effort, it seemed they were going to have to bury her too...


I feel guilty, because I know I altered that. too much. >_<;

Is it okay to pass the baton of the narrator to first person after the introduction? The girl is released from that tragic burden and should be discovering her individual self now.
Unless, the narrator was a sick buddy in the same room as her; and followed her the whole story?


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28 Jul 2011, 8:03 pm

It's good to alter it, I changed this story so much over the years.

When I first wrote this story about 9 years ago - believe it or not - it was a fanfiction of Gundam Wing. Back then it was called "Genesis Horizon".

If you find anything you want changed don't hesistate to let me know.

I'm going to upload a second version by "Collaborated" if you don't want it posted let me know and I'll take it down.



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28 Jul 2011, 10:54 pm

Done editing, and selfishly mutating your short-story. I am really good at editing, but would never be able to come up with a story like you did; or where you got to at that point.

Here it is in my google documents:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tFf ... t?hl=en_US


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