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 | This is a Strange Town  [E] 11/19/20 Daily Flash Fiction 300  |
| (5.0)  HAPPY WDC ACCOUNT ANNIVERSARY FROM "Anniversary Reviews"  Hello, S Reeves, aka sreeves311! INITIAL IMPRESSION / OVERVIEW:  I enjoyed reading your "This is a Strange Town" flash fiction story every time I read it, including today. Your writing kept me riveted and I read straight through to the end.MORE DETAILED FEEDBACK:  Happy Writing.Com Anniversary month! I read this "This is a Strange Town" flash fiction story of yours sometime in the past and enjoyed it, but didn't have time to review it right then, so I flagged it for an anniversary review (meaning I saved the link to it in a special "April" file.  ). I hope you enjoy this review as a celebration of your time here and find the review uplifting and encouraging. It is meant to be honest and respectful, in accordance with WDC guidelines. I think I originally found your story in the "Anniversary Reviews" forum, reviewed by someone else that I respect. Because I enjoyed it so much, I took the time to save it for a later review, instead of just moving on to the next read (I try to do a review a day, but rarely have time for more than one a day). I loved your story so much. It made me smile and remember a television sitcom where two teens thought an invitation to fight meant an invitation to a dance showdown competition. Of course, your story was original and different from the sitcom, but it did bring back memories of those laughs too. I thought your dialogue was great and sounded like the two guys might sound like when conversing in real life. My favorite part was the surprise of what came on the TV at the end. Nice twist and way to end the story. I thought you did a great job with telling a complete story in under or at three hundred words for the Daily Flash Fiction Contest. I wondered if you'd won the day for that contest with this story. Some days few people enter, some days a lot of people enter, but it seems there are always good quality entries. It's one of my favorite contests here, even though I rarely enter. I didn't notice any spelling or grammatical mistakes (or mistakes of any kind) in your"This is a Strange Town" flash fiction story that weren't intentional for the sake of realistic dialogue. I thought the contest genre you selected for this story was an appropriate match for it.IDEAS TO MAKE YOUR PIECE STRONGER: In the spirit of helpfulness, and because of the requirements of a new reviewing challenge I joined recently, I have some little suggestions to make your piece stronger. If you're interested in some constructive criticism, read on. But if you aren't, no worries. Just know that I enjoyed your piece and move on to the next section. Still reading? You're brave! Yay for you!   I'd recommend choosing two more genres, as we are allowed three, and people do search by genre here. Perhaps "culture," "young adult," "comedy," "drama," or "sports” might be nice options to consider? There's a drop down list, as you know, because you had to use it to select “contest". I don't have it memorized; those are just some suggestions. The actual list will probably be more helpful. Just to show it's not only me who recommends this, moderator Schnujo's Giving Away GPs  shared on the news feed in a comment on 2/21/2025 that “SM has told me, himself, that the #1 way people search for things to read on WdC is through the genre search, so if you aren't filling out all 3 genres, you are literally missing out on readers.” [On the very slim chance that you don't already know this, SM is our StoryMaster here, and definitely in the know.] If you want to see the note and scroll down to see her whole comment, here’s the link: "Note: View this Note". It's always nice for me as a reader to have the word count listed below the story, perhaps in a "notes" section. I don't know how long it took me to start doing that, but once I did, readers responded favorably. So I'd recommend adding that information beneath your story. I wasn't sure if it was exactly 300 words or was under it, but at least I knew that was the range from what you had in the description line. Having the information there for sure would be nice. It might help you get more future readers if you added a thumbnail picture to your story, if your membership level allows that. Pictures are attention getting and could help your story stand out in a list of search results. As with any review, please take what serves you and release or ignore what doesn't. CONCLUSION:  I enjoyed reading your "This is a Strange Town" flash fiction story and appreciated the smiles it gave me. I hope you continue writing and entering the Daily Flash Fiction contest. Thank you for sharing your time, creativity, heart, experiences, and writing with the Writing.Com community! Once again, happy anniversary month! I hope the year ahead is filled with blessings and joy for you!May love, joy and peace be yours in abundance, during your anniversary month, and always! PWheeler   A SuperPower Reviewers Choice review!  Positive Hearts  A Review from: "Invalid Item"  The B.E.A.R. Fund  ROAR   My review has been submitted for consideration in "Good Deeds Get CASH!" .
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