Thursday, March 25, 2010

171 YA

TITLE: DRAIN
GENRE: YA

The hard suitcase with the broken buckle rests between my legs on the bottom step of the townhouse. My whole life is held together by

16 comments:

  1. Not hooked, but the 2nd sentence portends some sort of misery -- perhaps bring that more to the foreground.

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  2. Ooooooooh! You got me hooked, mostly cuz I want to see where the unfinished sentence is leading! ㋡

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  3. Take out the word 'hard' and I'd read on just because it sounds like the suitcase & the protagonist's life are about to fall apart.

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  4. I could do without description for the suitcase. Not hooked yet

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  5. Not hooked, but would keep reading. I also vote for getting rid of 'hard'.

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  6. I would read on, my curiosity was piqued.

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  7. Not hooked. Would read on a little further.

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  8. I'd give it the rest of the sentence to decide if I was hooked or not. So far the present tense is putting me off.

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  9. I kind of like this one :) Just from this little piece, I feel like the MC and the suitcase have a lot in common. Also...GAH, I want to know what the rest of the sentence is!

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  10. Not hooked, but would probably keep going anyway. You haven't scared me off yet.
    The first sentence seems a bit over-done. I'd drop some of the descriptors of the suitcase, or make them seem more 'voicy.' Is that how the character in question would describe the suitcase.

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  11. Ditto dropping "hard" -- this almost hooks me if the narrator is comparing his/her life as being held together by the suitcase. If that's the case, I wonder if something more like "The broken suitcase is all that holds my life together. It rests between my legs, broken buckle..."

    JAS.

    Cheers. :)

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  12. I'm not quite hooked and it's because I stumbled over too much description in the first sentence. Pare that down a bit and you've got me.

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  13. I'd like the second sentence first and then maybe...

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  14. I'm hooked enough to want to read the back book cover.

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  15. Not hooked, but the 2nd sentence portends some sort of misery -- perhaps bring that more to the foreground. wedding rings chile , wedding rings germany ,

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