This
piece of fan fiction was mildly entertaining. The experience however was not.
The writer’s style of writing is amateur to say the least, and there is no will
to change it. Sheer laziness has effected how people view his fan fiction.
People want to be entertained by reading a piece of fiction, instead they are
getting confused by the bunched up dialog and switching of personalities. This
story is also missing a theme. Stories do not need them, but it does make for a
more interesting read. In all fairness however I read up to chapter three, then
something shiny caught my attention and all hope was lost.
There
was no hook in this story at all. I searched for one and found none. Without a
good hook the readers lose attention, fast, and it starts to become a chore to
read the story not entertainment. You want to entertain people with a well
rounded story that grasps their attention in the beginning and holds it until
the end. Without one, people like me get distracted easy and never finish it.
The
beginning of this story starts with a man named Henry, a marksman who was once
asked to kill German Shepherds. Why did we need to know that little bit of
information? That just added irrelevant content into the story that the reader
did not need to know. It broke the fluidity of the chapter which is never a
good thing to do.
I
was also confused as to why Henry was quoting scriptures from the bible. He was
either praying for forgiveness which really seems out of character, or he was praying
for the souls of the Nazi’s he was killing. Both of which are something a United States
solider would not have done. I may be wrong though.
There
was also a point at the end of chapter one where you use the verb “screamed”.
You made it sound like the soldier was screaming like a school girl. Yelled
would have been a more appropriate verb. You also had the same issue in chapter
two. Alarms do not scream, they sound. You made it sound as if the alarm was a
school girl too.
Hitler
conquered Germany.
I am sure you know that. It would be more historically correct to call them
***, since many Germans where against Nazism at that time. It sounded as if
all Germans where for Nazism in your story. I guess my German heritage is what
made that stand out more for me.
There
where sparse grammatical and spelling errors. Proof reading, and having someone
else proof read would have greatly decreased the occurrences. One thing that
really aggravated me was your sentences. You did not add a space after the
periods. This is important and is not a waste of space. It makes the reader
pause for a short moment at the end of each sentence. If it is all bunched up
together it appears to be a run on sentence. This will generally make the
readers rush though to get to the end of the paragraph. If you’re too lazy to
start doing it now, you might as well stop writing. It is a matter of proper
writing, you can not be a writer and make mistakes like that.
EDIT:
As I was writing this review the writer changed the dialog in the story. Please void the statement that there is no will for him to change. Thank you.
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