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Reviews For Kurobushi no Ryuu

Name: BushtuckerPenguin (Signed) · Date: 27/03/07 - 07:48 pm · For: Chapter 2
Ta! Glad to review again. You can pretty much ignore what Ol' Mate said about names. Ryuu is an infinitely common name choice so boohoo if she thinks she's laying patent to it.

Again there's trouble reading because of cluttered dialogue, new person=new line, for any rewrites.

Another reason why we're not tapping into Ryuu's emotions could be lack of adverbs and adjectives, the describing words. You use them some of the time, but it couldn't hurt to pump in a few more. And maybe try varying the 'said' words, to give more emotion to them.

More importantly is a kind of bluntness to your descriptions. You seem to be shining the description-spotlight squarely on Ryuu, and while he is important as the star, you have to build up the things around him to give him context. Give us the impression that if you took Ryuu out of the world, there'd still be a well described scene. For example-

- While Ryu stared at his calloused palms, a nurse peeked in through the doorway dressed crisply in white. She waved with one hand while balancing the a tray with the other, she greeted pertly, “Good morning, sir! We were wondering when you'd wake up. A fisherman brought you in here and told us to take care of you. The doctor said that you could be discharged today, of course.”
Ryuu's expression darkened before asking, “Where are my clothes?”
“They are in the closet beside you. Your ANBU mask is in the drawer, sir,” replied the nurse cheerfully, readjusting the wobbling tray, continuing on her busy rounds.

See, now the nurse has a life outside of Ryuu, giving your world a more dimension.

These flatness comes out when you describe his fanclub. They're only puppets to make Ryuu look good rather than having personalities of their own. Right now it's as if the only thing they do is go around in herds looking for cute boys.

Now we have a bit of canon displacement. Different villages are rivals, so they'd be suspicious. He could be a spy or an assasin.... At the very least a few people to watch him carefully.

Yay, Ino! Nice to see her having some airtime. Also introducing Sai gives us a timeline. It could be elaborated upon, but still good work.

Cheers, another review tomorrow, hopefully.



Author's Response: Thanks man, i'm using ur tips on my new fanfic... not published yet though... =D thanks again dude


Name: BushtuckerPenguin (Signed) · Date: 21/03/07 - 04:42 pm · For: Prologue/Chapter 1
G'day Darkleaf, let's have a look at your fanfiction!
First my compliments on your summary. Good onya for actually taking the time to write a coherant summary that actually drew me in. I actually had to turn four pages of the Just In section to find one. It's intriguing, with proper spelling and grammar. The title, while a bit too ambiguous to begin with may reveal itself later. I know what Ryuu means but am in the dark about Kurobushi.

Now for the prologue, and I'm not let down. Good chunky paragraphs I don't often see in OC fanfiction, bravo. Your descriptions are good but the scene flows a little to hastily for me to invest emotion in it, ala, I'm not feeling anything when his father died and an author should aim to provoke the same emotion's the character feels in the reader.

How can this be done? Well, 'slow down' the scene with more descriptions building up for the moment. In this case... Bam, we're training, bam, it's a few days later, bam, his father is dead in a matter of three paragraphs. Haste makes waste, and admittedly taking the time to flesh out these scenes is a test of your patience rather than the readers, but so worth it I promise you. For example, Perhaps take nine or ten of your lovely, chunky paragraphs to write out training. Take time to introduce Ryuu, what kind of child he was before his fathers death so we have a contrast.What was his home like, his home life, his goals? How old was he? What was his history with his father? What is his relationship with other ninjas, is he apart of Konoha? How does he feel about his father? Why is his father called the Dragon God? Did he look up to him? It may be a pleasant scene the reader enjoys, a happy atmosphere that makes his death all the worse later on because of it. If we know more about the characters, we can care. If we care, we get sucked into the story. We can't do that if we're rushed.

All these questions the reader asks, and an author should aim to answer them in story. Perhaps later down the track if you decide to rewrite you can take these into consideration.

If you do bulk that scene up to ten or so paragraphs, it means you could seperate your Prologue and your first chapter, making the flow neater and will look better to the reader. How a story looks means more than we admit.

Now for paragraphing, this is something I highly suggest you go back through any other chapters with the same problem and fix up. Paragraphs are there for flow, no flow, no go with the reader. The first thing it should do is separate speakers. Every time a new person speaks, start a new line. Again, this makes things neater and more decipherable.

How cool, I don't often come across ANBU OC's, let's see what you can do with it. He definitely has motive. *Chuckles* A girlly fanclub, eh. Again I feel that same sense of haste. I can see you want to get to the exciting bits as quick as possible, but they lose out if you don't build up the scene, atmosphere and back story. Like where he is in Konoha, his place in it, his friends, why the girls like him. Take time and you'll get more positive reviews I promise.

Building up your description and atmosphere also helps your characters stay in-character. Like Deidara, while that is like him it's still a kind of flat representation.

All and all a good first chapter. Few if any spelling mistakes, a bit of work on paragraphing and pacing... I look forward to reading more, but will wait for your permission to review again.
Cheers!

Now onto Chapter 1

Author's Response: thanks man, u can review anytime xD


Name: AkiraHatesYou (Anonymous) · Date: 17/03/07 - 10:45 am · For: Prologue/Chapter 1
I don't mean to impede your writing skills or anything insulting like that, but there's already an OC named Ryuu. Mine. And she was created on July 27th, 2006.

Author's Response: Oh damn!!! sorry! I didnt read Dx :( well uh i'll msg u


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