Hello,
Yes this does look like the beginning of a good story! I think you need to do some work on it though, why I will explain later. I think that you have a good story line, and with a strong main character, should come across absolutely fine. Be careful though because there might already be quite a few stories with this particular plot, and that faces the same problems, so be careful to make your story unique and stand out against all those others. I know you can do it! You have wonderful potential as a future writer .
Here are some problems I think you should work on to make your start of your book a lot better:
*Right, you need to remember to capitalize your letters at the start of a sentence or when someone new starts speaking, or if you are starting a thought. I have noticed you don't do this in quite a few places. I'm going to show you one, and then I would like you to go ahead and fix the others, okay?
Example of where you make this mistake: "you don't think I've had a hard day?" she hissed, "ya know what Zoey, just go. Go to your room, I don't want to see you anymore." Okay. You need to use a capital on the " y " at the start of your speech. It is a question, thus requires a capital letter! It should look like this "You". Also when the Mum carries on speaking you also need to use a capital letter on the " ya " making it look like this "Ya". Though Lillie you really shouldn't be saying " ya " you should be saying "you" to make it grammatically correct.
*Bad grammar. You have a lot of bad grammar in here! Bad grammar doesn't look good to a reader at all, it is okay at times, but you are using it way to much. Look out for words like "ya" and substitute them with words like "you". Another example "talkin", it just looks stupid and lazy if you don't put a " y " on the end. I don't know if this was poor grammar or a spelling mistake, which you need to fix.
*Punctuation. I also think you need to work a little on punctuation. Most of your commas are fine, but you have missed some in certain places. I have noticed that you don't use apostrophes ( ' ). These need to be used when your using words like "isn't" which you spelt without the apostrophe by the way, you need to change that.
Other than this and a needed read through to fix some typos. I think that this is a good story with a lot of potential to make a great book. My advice is to keep working on it, don't worry about the mistakes I've mentioned because everyone makes them, including me. Just remember to proof read a lot and make your work the best it can be, because if you do, you can be an amazing writer!
If you ever need any advice, don't be afraid to email me, Lillie. I want to see you grow as a writer just like I did. I get the feeling that your young when I read your writing, I am too. It doesn't matter how old you are, talent doesn't have a set age.
Great job,
Keep on writing, I'd love to read more!
Lilly
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