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Hello Shanachie

Thank you for entering "Musicology Anthology"  It is my honour to review your offering "Invalid Item"  today. Please keep in mind that any suggestions I make here are just that: suggestions. Pick and choose which ones you like or discard them in their entirety. You and only you can decide what's right for your work. Every writer has an individual style--a unique voice to share with the world, and originality is not only welcome but encouraged.

Per iKïyå§ama-House Targaryen 's instructions, each story can receive up to 100 points. While entries will be judged on creativity, plot, spelling/grammar, and characterization, I believe your ability to abide by the contest's rules is as important as the story itself.

Here is my scoring system: if your story hits the bullseye for any given category, then you will receive ALL of the allotted points for that category. If you miss the mark, you will receive NO points for that category.

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*Reading* Overall Impression:
Due to the sheer volume of entries received I am unable to provide you with a detailed review of your work, but I can give you my overall impression.

Very creative use of the prompts. I could see how the song lyrics related to the stories most of the time, and it worked well how you highlighted some of the lyrics, the most relevant parts, at the top to lead into the tales. I couldn’t always figure out straight away who the characters were but you did always make it clear after a while.

Some of the stories seemed a little short and barely started before they ended. For some of them, it worked, like “Fooled Around And Fell In Love” which seemed complete as it was. Others, like “Hooked on a Feeling” would have benefited from a bit more development, in my opinion.

I thought it was brilliant how you drew on different cultures and included other languages or elements like the flower symbolism. It was clear that you had given the events and characters some thought and put a lot of work into them, and I think it paid off: You have a very intriguing set of stories here.


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*Heart* What I Liked Best:
Due to the sheer volume of entries received I am unable to provide you with a detailed review of your work, but I can tell you what I liked best.

I liked the creativity of all the entries, the way you came up with different stories for different species and made them fit their characteristics. The writing was very good; I did spot a couple of typos along the way but nothing major. The characters came across very well and their personalities were unique and well drawn. In places, I would have liked a bit more description of where the events were happening; although the type of character restricted the setting somewhat and I could imagine where, for example, a mermaid would live, it would have still been nice to ‘see’ what you had in mind when you wrote the tale.

It seemed that the stories were introductions to pique the readers’ interest in the characters’ worlds and circumstances, and I would have been quite happy to read on had the stories been longer and get to know a bit more about what would have happened before and after each scene.


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