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We continue the weekly saga from Jon Wood with Chapter One of Neverdie. This builds on last week's Prologue. Neverdie is an original piece of fantasy fiction that will appear here every Sunday.
To read the rest of chapter one, click here. |
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wow! a great story! gj Jon Wood!! MyBrute = addicting mini online game! |
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great story, and i dont care if its unoriginal, still seems great. besides reading this > hw gl with it, im still lookin forward to 2nd chapter tho
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Unoriginal, badly written, dull, boring and... no I can't say that. I stopped reading halfway down the first page and, had I paid to read it, I'd be demanding a refund. It reads like an unpolished first draft. Were I a publisher I'd ask Jon Wood to take it away and rewrite it until it gleams. The problem with episodic writing is that, unlike a novel where you only have to polish the first few chapters, each episode has to have a novel like structure within itself; you have to draw your readers into your story at the start of each episode instead of just at the first few chapters of a novel. I suggest that Jon Wood writes smaller episodes and spends more time editing, he can only improve. Writing an episode a week means that he's probably pushing himself too hard. When Steven King wrote The Green Mile he gave himself a month for each episode and was an episode ahead before each was published. Were I trying this I'd limit myself to a couple of thousand words per chapter, at most, and spend much of the week editing. Good luck Mr Wood. "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- |
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