A good start but there is a lot of repitiion of ideas, the incorrect use of words, some are missing in sentences, and tenses are confused too.
The same issues run throughout the prolouge, which I suspect, without reading further will be the same in other chapters too.
A warm breeze gently swirled around the flames, which caused the fire to burn even brighter. The companions sat in silence as the fire mesmerized their thoughts. The events of the day were sinking in and everyone needed time to think. It had taken ten years to collect all of the jewel shards and defeat Naraku. There were endless trials and tribulations to get all of the shards and the million-dollar question was sitting heavily on everyone’s minds.
In the opening paragraph, above, for example. The scene is odd as it's not immediately clear if Kagome and her friends have made a campfire, which I suspect it was meant to depict, or are sharing for example a fire in Kaede's hut. Also, if they have made a campfire, why has it taken 10 years to collect the Shikon Shards? Are they still in the process of collecting them or have they finished already? It's not clear. Further more if they have collected the shards and defeated Naraku, as the paragraph states, why are they around a campfire, I presume, in a forest at all? If they have defeated Naraku then the Shikon should have been completed and the shards shouldn't exist, and the final wish should have been made.
You have a confusion of events here, so the setting doesn't make sense for Kagome to have the Shikon shards in her possession if Naraku is defeated. By rights, they'd still be looking for the shards if she was injured by a youkai too, with an unhealing wound. And why Inuyasha is also injured.
Also the phrase should be a the end 'The million-dollar question was weighing on everyones' minds' not sitting.
Also the second paragraph has some obvious issues too.
Kagome looked down at her hands that cradled all of the jewel shards. Her hands that were well manicured and meticulously cared for during the beginning of the journey now marred with battle scars. There was a light pink scar with jagged stiches on the palm of her left hand that looked like it never healed thoroughly. The serpent youkai infused its venom with dark magic, which caused the wounds to never heal. The cut was very deep and the pain was agonizing. She almost bled to death over the course of a week. She had to learn her first healing spell that day and to learn how to keep a spell permanently active. There was a part of her spiritual powers that will always be dedicated to healing the wound permanently, and if she ever falls unconscious for a long period of time, the stiches will unravel and the wound will be just as bad as the first time she had been bitten. Eight times. That’s how many times her wound had opened and nine times she had to seal those wounds.
The word 'were' needs to go in the sentence:
Her hands that were well manicured and meticulously cared for during the beginning of the journey were now marred with battle scars.
Although it would read better as 'Her hands, well-manicured during the beginning of the journey, were now marred with battle scars'.
Manicured means meticulous so using the word meticulous is uneccessary.
Furthermore there's another mixing of tenses, present and past-tense, when focus in this paragraph shifts from Kagome's hand to the cause of the injury, the serpent youkai. It's confusing. The reader is told about the scar and its history instead of being shown, somehow, during the story for example by having one of Kagome's friends initiate a conversation and broach th subject like this:
"It's hurting isn't it?", asked Miroku.
Kagome looked at the scar on her hand. "Yeah".
Also later in this chapter there is another confusing of tense. When Kagome and Inuyasha fall unconscious. Yet somehow in the following paragraph, Kagome is miraculously awake and talking to Inuyasha. Making him 'sit' which makes Shippou laugh and amuses the rest of her friends.
I'm not sure if Kagome is dreaming or awake, thus the confusion of tenses, and the jumping from one situation to another spontaeneously.
It's very jarring in this chapter.
Nilee1 (Chapter 4) - Thu 11 Feb 2016
This is truly the beginning of a great story . Please update soon . Thank you !
Good just too short looking forward to seeing more.
Good, keep it coming. Today is my Birthday!
Great story can't wait to start this ride with you.
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