Review for Simply Beautiful

Simply Beautiful

(#) Brian64 2009-08-10

For those who don't know how to rate the main story, it's actually not too hard to work out.

Take a look at the URL at the top of the screen.. see the story number? (126816)

Now, take a look at the URL when you go to rate one of the regular chapters, like chapter 1 for instance.

http://www.ficwad.com/story/126817/rate

Now just change the story number in the URL, and press enter, and then rate. EG;

http://www.ficwad.com/story/126816/rate

Enjoy!

As for the story, I'm afraid I didn't get too far with it. I understand where Warlocke was coming from in his review, though I think he went a little overboard in going over the same point over and over. I think you picked a difficult scene to rewrite, simply because it has been done so many times and by some very experienced fanfic writers. It means you're going to be compared to some of the best in the fandom, and that's hard if this is one of your first fics.

My advice (for what it's worth) is to pick a little used scene or plot point, and then tweak that one scene a little to come up with somethign original and different, and then write on from there. For example, after Harry rescued Ginny from the chamber of secrets, why didn't he ever go back there before school broke up that year (or even in the next year?) Maybe Ron would have wanted to see the basilisk? Or maybe Molly and Arthur approch Harry to take them all down, so they can help Ginny deal with it and put the whole mess behind her... or something like that? Just a thought..

Cheers,

Brian64