Subject: Writing Sample Critique
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Posted on: 2011-05-09 08:17:00 UTC

Disclaimer: I am not a permission giver. I will now proceed to give you my 2 cents anyway.

The biggest problem with the writing sample is an inconsistent narrator. It waffles between being a neutral omniscient observer (with a snarky personality) and being from Kara's perspective. It should be one or the other. Another thing about an omniscient narrator - they know what's going to happen, so it obviously wouldn't have said 'fortunately Kara was only aiming for Regina' since it already knows everything will go horribly horribly wrong.

Another big violation is that it uses "I said." There should never, ever be a first person pronoun used by a narrator in a third person perspective fic.

I also note:

1)Tense inconsistencies. Her skills shouldn't be described in current tense if the story is described in past tense.

2)Logic fail. Someone getting hit by a water balloon is not a quiet, easily missed event. People tend to scream in surprise, water splashes everywhere. Most likely the whole cafeteria will be aware of what happened after the first one, if not the second one.

3)Logic fail 2: Even if not everyone in the cafeteria noticed right away, how the heck did Regina miss it? While silliness is embraced in the PPC, unless Regina hails from the Looney Toons world this is still a stretch. You didn't even mention anything that might distract her enough to not look around.

4)This is obviously the start of a mission. You shouldn't be writing any part of the mission at all until you have permission.

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