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Do you think I can write a best-seller?

OK, I'm kidding but please follow the link below and read the piece I have added. Would you recommend me to post another scene? Thanks

http://360.yahoo.com/my_profile-3tmkpeq8...


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Yes, it is good; your writing is vivid, engaging, and fresh... as someone else has conmmented, you need a good editor (I'd suggest not a friend); not only for the occasional spelling or grammatical error, sorry, I'd cite one but it didn't open in a separate window, so it's gone... but also for the general sense of slight haste, you're rushing the senses along a bit; not the same as speed. It feels as if it needs drawing out a little. Like someone gabbling. Love the frosted mind and the swiping wind....of course the wind swipes, didn't I always know that....? You have the born writer's gift of coining images that immediately seem natural and familiar as well as surprising. And there's a mystery straight away, a tension set up in the situation, it's pulling several ways... Just don't try to tell us too much at once. You lose atmosphere, narrative tension, and stylistic grace that way... For instance, you could introduce who this man is more slowly, through forward and backward exposition, bit by bit; someone could speak to him by name as a first introduction of that name/position; just throwing this rather grand title into the narration is a bit melodramatic and clunky... etc etc... write more (8000-1000 words, of the book or a synopsis and one or two chapters) and show it to an agent. Look in The Writer's Handbook for this year for details of agencies and publishers.