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I'm glad I found your story. I enjoyed reading it and hope you find this feedback useful. Remember, this is just one opinion, so take what you like and leave the rest. Everything is said with love and in hopes that it helps!
Overall Impression:
This is a really cute story. I hope you clean it up and consider pursing publishing it one day. Even if you only publish it in a magazine or as an e-book.
Grammar and Mechanics:
"...with two older sisters, and two older brothers." There shouldn't be a comma after "sisters." "...so busy with their friends they seem to forget about Charlie." There should be a comma after "friends." "After all his sisters and brothers left Charlie wandered around" their" house he found the cat, “He asked the cat "Are you my friend?"" There should be a comm after "left" and the quotation marks for "their" are attached to the word before it instead. Put a space after "around" and erase the space between the quotation marks and "their." There should be a period after "house." Capitalize "he" and after "cat" should be a period. Also erase the quotation marks before "he" (the "he" after "cat." There should be a comma after "cat" (in the part saying, "he asked the cat").
". He went on to find daddy dinosaur, and asked him "are you my friend?"" There's a period and an extra space before the beginning of this sentence. There should be a comma after "him" and "are" should be capitalized. ""Of course Charlie." he answered." There should be a comma after "course" and that period after "Charlie" should be a comma. "He found momma dinosaur and asked her" are you my friend?"" There should be a comma after "her" and the quotation marks are stuck on the "her" instead of the "are." Also, capitalize "are." " well yes honey. Why do you ask?" Erase the space before the opening quotation marks and capitalize "well." Also, there needs to be a comma after "yes." " everyone has friends and they are to busy for me and I don’t have any friends" There shouldn't be a space between the opening quotation marks and "everyone." Also, "everyone" needs to be capitalized." That should be "too busy." And you need a period after "friends." (I don't know where you are from, but in America, the period ALWAYS goes inside the quotation marks. So do commas.)
"of course you do, you have your sisters and brothers" "Of" should be capitalized. That should either be a period or a semi-colon after "do" since both parts are full sentences. There should be a period after "brothers" (and before the quotation marks). ". Poor Charlie looks up and says" they are too busy for me. They have their own friends." Erase the period and space before "poor." There should be a comma after "says." "They" should be capitalized. There should be quotation marks after the period after "friends." "...walks away saying" I don’t have anyone"." There should be a comma after "saying" and a space between that comma and the quotation marks. Erase the space between the quotation marks and "I." If you are in Europe, that period at the end is probably right. If you're here in America, the period ALWAYS goes inside the quotation marks.
"...makes Charlie a promise, and tells Charlie..." That shouldn't be a comma there. "...as soon as she gets the chores done, we will go visit friends, and you can play with some kids." You switched from "she" to "we" and "you." You can either keep it 3rd person and say, "...they will go visit friends and he can play with some kids." Or you came make it a quote and say, "...chores done, "We will go visit friends and you can play with some kids."" (That second quotation mark is me ending my quote of what you can say. If you choose that, naturally you'll just end with one set instead of two. lol) Also, there shouldn't be a comma after "friends." "Charlie nods yes" Your period somehow ended up on the line below...the one that's supposed to be blank. "Later in the day they go to lunch, as momma dinosaur..." You need a comma after "day." That comma after "lunch" should be a period and "as" should be capitalized.
"...asked him his name." He says shyly my name is Stanley"" There shouldn't be a set of quotation marks after "name." Also, there should be a comma after "shyly" and "my" should be capitalized. There should be quotation marks in front of "my" (not attached to "shyly" and there shouldn't be a space between them and "my." Your period should be inside the quotation marks after "Stanley," not on the next space by itself. lol "Charlie asked him if they could play together," That should be a period, not a comma after "together." "Stanley shakes his head yes." I don't know about Europe and other countries, but in America, normally people "nod" yes and "shake" no. "As the play date comes to an end the momma dinosaur..." There should be a comma after "end." "Charlie and Stanley get ready to leave, he asked Stanley “are you my friend”? "Stanley smiles and says yes."" That should be either a period or a semi-colon instead of a comma after "leave." If it's a period, of course, capitalize "he." There should be a comma after the second "Stanley." Capitalize "are" and the question mark goes inside the quotation marks because the whole thing isn't a question, just the part in quotation marks. "...many more play dates, and soon become best friends." There shouldn't be a comma there. "One day on the way to play Charlie" says to momma dinosaur". Thank you for taking me to play with Stanley, he’s my best friend." There shouldn't be quotation marks by "Charlie" or by "dinosaur." There should be quotation marks in front of "thank" (without a space between them and "thank" and after "friend." Also, the comma after "Stanley" should either be a semi-colon or a period because both parts are full sentences. Naturally, if you make it a period, capitalize "he's." Oh, and that period at the end of "friend" goes INSIDE the quotation marks.
Suggestions:
You said Charlie was a dragon, but his parents are dinosaurs. Is he adopted? Hahaha--just teasing, but because of this, I thought the momma and daddy dinosaurs were his stuffed toys at first and they weren't really talking. I got to the part where momma said she'd take him to play with friends after she finished her chores. I'd suggest just saying he's a dinosaur too, to avoid any confusion.
Favorite Part:
"He found the cat. He asked the cat, "Are you my friend?" The cat just looked at him. HAHAHAHA Typical cat! lol
Thank you again for sharing your story! Keep writing!
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