
Well, I'm not fond of this one, but at least you all know I'm still alive. Still working on my other stories, and I'm very unsatisfied with this one. Started out well enough, but near the end it felt like I was forcing it, so I stopped. Any pointers would be greatly, greatly appreciated, please.
I'm considering moving this to scraps. By the way, this is for one of
poetigress's Thursday Prompts.
I'm considering moving this to scraps. By the way, this is for one of

Category Story / All
Species Kangaroo
Size 50 x 50px
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I was disappointed because it felt very forced and in the end I was unsatisfied with how little humour I ended up using. I thought it was going to be a nice, silly little reminiscence story, but it didn't go for nearly as long as I wanted it to.
But I did some thinking, and I realized what I need to do. I need to make it a scene in a longer story. So for now, it's a scrap until I come up with the longer story I can add this into.
But I did some thinking, and I realized what I need to do. I need to make it a scene in a longer story. So for now, it's a scrap until I come up with the longer story I can add this into.
This isn't bad at all. It's a fragment, to be sure, but the dialogue flows quite naturally and your narrative works quite well. I could easily picture everything you were describing, right down to the waft of perfume following the tiger ( I have a co-worker that fits that description).
It definitely is one, yeah. And the sooner I realized that, the better I felt about posting it here. Granted, it took me a day to warm up to it, but still...
I do want to alter the dialogue at the end, and (why does Firefox say "dialogue" is spelled wrong? *Adds to the dictionary.*) add more description of the time long ago, but other than that, I'm not as displeased with this as I was before. Now that said, it'll probably sit here for months until I decide what I want to do with the setting.
Thank you for your comment. :)
I do want to alter the dialogue at the end, and (why does Firefox say "dialogue" is spelled wrong? *Adds to the dictionary.*) add more description of the time long ago, but other than that, I'm not as displeased with this as I was before. Now that said, it'll probably sit here for months until I decide what I want to do with the setting.
Thank you for your comment. :)
I don't think this was bad at all, actually. I can't think of a single pointer to give you... o.0 'Course, that's not really a surprise - I'm just a 'slightly-above-average' writer myself, LoL.
And yeah, the line might not go too well woven into a larger story - for a sequence like this, though, I thought it fit in quite well! ^^
(oh wait, actually... I don't think you ever specified what Rhys was. Okay, so that's still not a pointer, and I could easily have just overlooked it - but that's the only thing I could think of. ^^; )
And yeah, the line might not go too well woven into a larger story - for a sequence like this, though, I thought it fit in quite well! ^^
(oh wait, actually... I don't think you ever specified what Rhys was. Okay, so that's still not a pointer, and I could easily have just overlooked it - but that's the only thing I could think of. ^^; )
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