About Calla
Hi, I'm Calla! I've recently started writing original fiction again for the first time in five years and I'm looking for feedback as I write. I've recently joined the Bookworms United Book Club and the Flexible Book Exchange (I literally joined the latter today so nothing to show for that yet!) and I ran a review shop last summer (which is now unpublished). I also got an A in English at Advanced Higher.
What are you looking for in a critique partner?
Honesty and straightforwardness. I'd rather you weren't brutally honest, but please just get straight to the point.
What is your general availability?
I can do a couple of chapters a week (no more than 3)
Story #1:
Title: Dead Roses
Genre: Drama
Status: Ongoing
Mature: No
Description: ANARCHIST. TERRORIST. HEIR.
So declare Ethelmount's papers the day Rũta Black marries King Aneurin. But it's not the new Queen they're interested in: it's her daughter, Audra, an antimonarchist fresh out of prison after punching one of the King's advisors. They're only half-right, but they're sold out, so who cares?Not Audra. All she's interested in is justice for her best friend, Rose Kenney, who was killed in an accident at the factory she worked at. The combined magic of her sister, Martha, and Audra couldn't save her. No one cared until Audra turned to violence, and when that story stopped selling no one cared once more. This time, she won't let anyone look away.(It isn't vengeance. Vengeance is a knife, and Audra doesn't wield those.)She's not the only one with an agenda, however, and she's thrown headfirst into the deep end of a power struggle where all weapons are trained on her. Even joining forces with Martha isn't enough to keep her afloat. As the water seeps into the city itself, it's all she can do not to drown and drag everyone along with her, sinking like stones to the bowels of the sorry mess they've made.(Audra doesn't wield knives, but she can cut just as deep as her enemies. If only she could aim.)
What type of feedback are you looking for: I welcome everything you have to say, but I'm particularly interested in feedback on the setting and whether the story actually makes sense. It's my first time writing with such a large amount of characters and in a setting that's entirely my own, so I want to know if I'm conveying it all properly. Feedback on characterisation would also be useful.
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