Subject: Re: Ohhhh boy. Want a trip to Pern?
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Posted on: 2015-03-04 05:57:00 UTC

Disclaimer: I am no expert on Pern or concrit, but I'll do my best.
To start with, all the characters seem pretty interchangeable. I can't tell anything about any of them from the limited exposure I get in this story. Maybe it's a symptom of it being such a short story.
In fact, that would be the first thing I would suggest: flesh it out a bit. The plot isn't necessarily bad, but it could stand to be expanded on.
And I suppose that the ending, such as it is, is a bit of an anticlimax. There's basically no conflict: the characters pursue the villain, gain dragons, find the villain, then the villain dies without their intervention. It might help to see the rest of the chapters; as-is, it's quite clearly an introductory plot.
Uh... you could check spelling and grammar? Yeah, I'm out of suggestions. No complete re-write outlines from me.
Oh, and you might want to give it a once-over; when you (presumably) Ctrl+F and replaced 'Lou' with 'Alice', it also replaced 'lou' within words. For instance: '...the egg burst open with a Aliced crack.' That made me chuckle, heh.
The style and characterisation actually reminds me a lot of my first attempt at writing, when I was seventeen. Man, that was bad. But I went back and did a complete re-write. I wouldn't necessarily claim that it's good now, but it's better. /digression

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