Longing For You - SeptemberRsin

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Story: Longing For You (Shounen Ai)

Requestor's Username: SeptemberRsin

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Date Received - Date Completed: 1 August 2014 - 1 August 2014

NOTE: This story is Shounen Ai but not Rated M

(10/10) Title: Great title for a sweet story. Everything that happened in the story is because they longed for one another, so the title is a PERFECT 10/10.

(9/10) Character: The characters were developed enough to understand each of their personality. They love each other too much, that one wants to leave to make the other happy.

(10/10) Originality: The story's feelings are straight forward and gets across to its readers. The longing of wanting to be together forever as well as wishing for your partner's happiness, just beautiful.

(34/40) Storyline/Plot: The storyline/plot is short and simple, but the many errors made it a little difficult to read. The pace that the story progresses at is good. A good amount of details. Opening the story with a letter was a great idea, and ending the story by closing the worries written within the letter with "don't ever doubt my love" was splendid.

(15/25) Grammar/Errors: The choices of words are good, and got better in the second half of the story. Need to work on tenses, making sure it's past or present. The story is missing some small words like 'the', missing some commas, and missing apostrophes. There are plenty punctuation errors and need to work on parts of speech. Using Microsoft Word would fix most of these errors and boot your score up.

(5/5) Overall Enjoyment: I really enjoyed the story! It's such a great story, so it's sad that the amount of errors prevented me from reading smoothly. Easiest way to fix this problem, is to use Microsoft Word. The story is sweet, and I can feel how deep the love was that they had for each other.

(83/100) Points Total

 

Bonus: Your questions and focuses for us:

Grammar: for further explanations to some of the errors
*I mean no offense, but you requested to focus on grammar, so I will use an example to better clarify what I'm trying to say.*
Example: "How we will played together with the snows?" 'will' expresses the future and it's followed by 'played' which is past tensed. Work on using one tense to make reading run more smoothly. Although it may not be incorrect, 'snows' should be 'snow' for a better flow. It works either way, but sounds better without the (s).
Some words are plural that shouldn't be. In chapter 2 (Sequel) I spot many sentences that doesn't begin with a capital, as well as no commas between quotes. Hopefully I was of some help, and I apologize for my way of explanations.

Storyline: I'm sure the reader can understand that chapter 1 is the letter, but I suggest beginning with something like "Dear Yunho-yah," to point out that it's a letter. Since this is a one-shot story, having a decent storyline is difficult, but I think you pulled it off. You got from point a, 'the letter,' to point b, where they stayed together in the end.

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WooGyu_KyuSung_YooSu
#1
One more thing. I know the Description and the forward are super long. But I planned this story to be like a Novella/Soap Opera.
It may seem like I'm giving away to much in the Description and The Forward, but as you realize you might notice that I haven't.
There are three main parts to this story:
The Past-Childhood
The Past- Orphans/Teens
The Present- The main setting, in which the forward revealed nothing.

I'm an interactive author, meaning I ask questions at the end and leave hints here and there for the readers to try there best at guessing. (They become more invested in my story this way, lol)
WooGyu_KyuSung_YooSu
#2
-Username : WooGyu_KyuSung_YooSu
-Profile link : http://www.asianfanfics.com/profile/view/49463

- Story title : Love Me Right
- Story link : http://www.asianfanfics.com/story/view/976222/love-me-right-mpreg-hunhan-taoris-kaisoo-sulay-chanbaek-chenmin

-Genre : OT12, Angst, Mpreg, Fluff, Comedy, Growth, Friendship, Life, and "LEARNING TO LOVE"

- On-going | To be a long fic.

- Reviewer : KaihleeLo

- So The title of the fic is "Love Me Right", but it has nothing to do with the EXO song; even though some would just assume. The reason why I titled it 'Love Me Right' is because 6 of the main characters suffered in their childhood and eventually were orphaned. They don't know how to let themselves love. In particular, Luhan. As for the other 6 'Love' and 'Lust' are two different things.

- So before you read, I would like to point out, that the pacing of the story and the built up is exactly how I planned. I don't want to rush Romance because you don't 'fall in love' over night, and the characters need to mature. Also, there is a pattern to my chapters "The Past" chapters are essentially flashbacks. "The Present" is taking place now. For every 5 "The Present" chapters, it will be followed by 2 "The Past" chapters; Childhood/Teen years.

- I have a reader who offered to proofread my chapters since I had some typos, and I don't have the time to go back and fix them. "I always update between 12 am - 5 am, so that is the main reason". She is still editing the earlier chapters so please realize I am fixing the errors.


Oh gosh this was a lot. I'm sorry. I'm just really nervous, and I wanted to explain the above before you review.
-Tigress-
#3
Chapter 127: Hey can I have someone send me my review here so I can save it?
This archive is non-selectable so I can't save it myself.