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Wishbelle

5:18pm Sep 13 2011 (last edited on 7:50pm Sep 16 2011)

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  Welcome to my wonderland. The theme park of absolute danger, unexpected results and well, you'll see. But if you put this book down, you will never know what happens to me, and my precious life. The world as you know it depends on you finishing this book, also known as my journal, my head and reality. Study up because who knows? 100 years later after I die, another person will be born 'special' and it very well might be you. Even if your an adult, you need to know what I am about to tell you. 
  Yes, this is private to me and my successor, but training my next successor is 1,000% worth it and more and you are my successor. Yes you. The one reading my private thoughts right now.
  If you have not guessed, these pages hold my life. From age who knows what, to now. And it soon will hold the future, if you want it to. My name is Pen. Penelope Kane in full. And I am pirate. Flesh and blood pirate.
  I'm kind of, well, unbeatable in a way. Not to sound full of myself or brag to you, but I am. And you will be amazing too. Just remember these 3 words. Never. Give. Up. -- Non. Mollare. Mai. I sleep, eat and breath those words and until Captain Dagger Heart the third, known as Capt'n DH or Dagger, speaks his final words. My mother, correction- step mother, is an old hag who probably knits scarfs for her dogs. My father, not we are getting to the good stuff. My father is a pirate. Even stronger than, I never knew that was possible until I brawled against him for fun. My father is my successor. So in a sense think of him as your grandfather successor. I'm not saying that, well you know, your my um... child. I'm not married and I would never EVER let children or love get in my way. Captain Dagger killed my real mother. Drained the life out of her. In a tube. Excuse me--- I have to dry my tears. What kind of blood thirsty mad mad MURDERER would kill someone for their life. When I read that over it sound like the answer is thats the only reason but Captain Dagger wanted her spirit. He sucked the Non. Mollare. MAi. right out of her. Made her helpless.
  I am proud to be pirate. Proud as, you name it. And fierce to. I'm fierce like, well, nothing compares. But I am here to make sure Captain Dagger winds up dying a sad life like the poor little lemmings who run off cliffs.
  Oh geez. Sorry, I'm pushing way too much on you at once. I should not expect you jump right into the spirit of pirates on your first lesson, miss or mister successor. So if you can't keep you just tell me and I'll slow down for you.
  CHAPTER ONE

  The strange thing is that you worry least when your life depends on you worrying. How many of us have even been in a life threatening situation? How many of us have died? I have. I have died. And you will find out how. Anyway, it sort of make you think, what a wonderful life I have had. You pray to the Pirate Lord, McTavash Jones in this case, and cross your fingers you will live to see light another day. But it never strikes your mind that you might not see light another day that that fact scares me.
  Exactly what I just said is what is going through my mind right now. While my lungs leap out of my body for air and my body for air and my feet bleed right off my body, hitting every rock, almost tripping over every root not caring how many sticks they hit. But I could manage. Non. Mollare. Mai. My language. 
"Non. Mollare. Mai this is not the end of my life," I scream at the top of my lungs before collapsing on the leaves. Sadly enough, the Never. Give. Up was not working for me. I felt my body giving up. 
No. No. This is not the end! I heard myself cry on instinct. The foot steps of my captors neared when my legs. My legs, they got up and they galloped. Ran for life. They ran for death too. 
Run. I can outrun them. I'm smart. Oh look! Rope. Time to get my swinging boots on. 
  And without double thoughts- oh! I forgot to tell you. Pirates are bred to do. Not think. So say fare well, to you life as you know it and grab onto this faithful rope we are about to board.




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Wishbelle

7:50pm Sep 16 2011

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updated it. I rewrote the whole thing



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GreenKat

8:53pm Sep 16 2011

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Like it



Detneth106

5:38am Sep 17 2011

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You still want critiques? o3o I'm not the nicest one, but, well, I can do my best to offer constructive criticism. :P




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Wishbelle

7:34am Sep 17 2011

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yes yes yes. I need critiques.
I'll still pay 10k per.



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Wishbelle

7:36am Sep 17 2011

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Thank, Kat. Means a lot



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Detneth106

8:37am Sep 17 2011 (last edited on 8:38am Sep 17 2011)

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Okay. First off, this represents my opinion. I'm not a famous writer or whatnot, but these are my two cents. Annoyed? R-mail me, don't post here complaining. :/ 

(Paranoid about people disliking my post :U Doesn't apply to you Wish)


Lol'kay. Won't be a very long one then. o3o



I'll just start by saying you are comma-happy.



The theme park of absolute danger, unexpected
results and well
, you'll
see. But if you put this book down
, you
will never know what happens to me
and
my precious life. The world as you know it depends on you finishing this book
also
known as my journal
my
head and reality.



That's six commas in three sentences; while not
overdone your sentences are also wordy, so they don't fit well together. I'd
try re-writing them as separate sentences, or just remove some of the stuff
that isn't needed.





The park of absolute danger and unexpected results;
well, you'll see. But if you put this book down, you will never know what
happens to me. The world as you know it depends on you finishing this book.



In my opinion it feels as if the other words are
just fillers. You don't need them and they add little to the overall paragraph.
If you want quantity, I'd think about the quality at the same time. You can
tell the difference between 'padding' and actual information.





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Then there's awkward sentence-structure, something
you would want to avoid. Missing words, run-on sentences and sometimes you just
have repeating lines. For example:





If you have not guessed, these pages hold my life. From
age who knows what, to now.
 And
it soon will hold the future, if you want it to.
 My
name is Pen. Penelope Kane in full.
 And
I am pirate. Flesh and blood pirate.



Right, so. Blue is repetition, orange is
unneeded/incorrectly written/missing words, and green is structure. Or
something along those lines. LOL



-This is repetitive from the beginning paragraph.
If you keep it as it originally was, you are repeating the fact that the book
is about her life. By now, we get it. In fact, in the original first paragraph
you allude to it twice. You can consider taking this out entirely or replacing
it with unknown information.



- The first sentence highlighted, 'From age who
knows what, to now.' 
makes little sense. If this is her journal you
could easily give us a starting age, but if you don't want to just try
re-wording it. 'From age who knows what' is awkward and
doesn't flow easily, if you try reading it closely. Substituting it with 'from
my childhood' 
or something that relates to a young age may work
better. The next line, 'And it soon will hold the future, if you want
it to' 
is more or less useless to the rest of the paragraph, in my
opinion. The 'if you want it to' may also be unnecessary. Something more
graceful might be 'And soon it will hold the future', since the
word order in the front is also somewhat awkward. Last line; 'And I am
pirate. Flesh and blood pirate' 
First, you're missing the 'a'. A bit
crucial, that is. And in the second part as well. 'And I am a pirate; a
flesh and blood pirate'.



- Lastly. This is fine to leave alone, but at the
same time, it's uninteresting and dull to read. The more excitement
and action in the words the more hooked a reader will be. 'My name is
Pen, Penelope Kane'
. You can play around with it, really.



Just remember these 3 words. Never. Give. Up.

Rather than using the numbers, try using the actual word forms: 'three'.

Just remember these three words: Never. Give. Up.

There's more, but I can't concentrate. D: I'll type it up later.





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Wishbelle

5:24pm Sep 18 2011

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Long! Wow. I can't read it all at once but, the parts I read were helpful.



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