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	<title>Comments on: First Five Sentence Critique #12</title>
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	<description>She'll write a book to go with it...</description>
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		<title>By: Holly Bodger</title>
		<link>http://giveagirlapen.com/revising-manuscripts/first-five-sentence-critique-12/comment-page-1#comment-721</link>
		<dc:creator>Holly Bodger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Very interesting!

I agree that you need to cut one &quot;moment&quot; from the first sentence and would also suggest you cut or change one of the realized/realization/realized from the first, second and fourth lines.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very interesting!</p>
<p>I agree that you need to cut one &#8220;moment&#8221; from the first sentence and would also suggest you cut or change one of the realized/realization/realized from the first, second and fourth lines.</p>
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		<title>By: Anica</title>
		<link>http://giveagirlapen.com/revising-manuscripts/first-five-sentence-critique-12/comment-page-1#comment-707</link>
		<dc:creator>Anica</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Definitely intriguing.

I would try not to repeat &quot;moment&quot; in the first sentence - maybe &lt;i&gt;. . . would be the one in which I realized I was dead.&lt;/i&gt;  And you could pretty easily change the second sentence to eliminate the passive:  &lt;i&gt;One realization destroyed my entire world.&lt;/i&gt;  In the third sentence, you might consider replacing &quot;and&quot; with a comma (&lt;i&gt;. . . the end of my Soul, the end of everything I had ever believed in.&lt;/i&gt;)  In the last sentence, you could cut &quot;which had been&quot; and just say &lt;i&gt;my beliefs, once reliant upon faith alone&lt;/i&gt;.

I like the fact that seeing the world as a womb creates a metaphor in which an afterlife is actually a life, rather than a kind of eternal &lt;i&gt;existence&lt;/i&gt;. (Although I assume that you don&#039;t mean your story&#039;s afterlife to end with an afterdeath . . . ?)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Definitely intriguing.</p>
<p>I would try not to repeat &#8220;moment&#8221; in the first sentence &#8211; maybe <i>. . . would be the one in which I realized I was dead.</i>  And you could pretty easily change the second sentence to eliminate the passive:  <i>One realization destroyed my entire world.</i>  In the third sentence, you might consider replacing &#8220;and&#8221; with a comma (<i>. . . the end of my Soul, the end of everything I had ever believed in.</i>)  In the last sentence, you could cut &#8220;which had been&#8221; and just say <i>my beliefs, once reliant upon faith alone</i>.</p>
<p>I like the fact that seeing the world as a womb creates a metaphor in which an afterlife is actually a life, rather than a kind of eternal <i>existence</i>. (Although I assume that you don&#8217;t mean your story&#8217;s afterlife to end with an afterdeath . . . ?)</p>
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		<title>By: Marybeth</title>
		<link>http://giveagirlapen.com/revising-manuscripts/first-five-sentence-critique-12/comment-page-1#comment-694</link>
		<dc:creator>Marybeth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks girls. I keep coming back to this one myself. I know it IS slightly passive, but I can&#039;t help but love it.

The second one will remain the second paragraph instead of the first.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks girls. I keep coming back to this one myself. I know it IS slightly passive, but I can&#8217;t help but love it.</p>
<p>The second one will remain the second paragraph instead of the first.</p>
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		<title>By: Sarah</title>
		<link>http://giveagirlapen.com/revising-manuscripts/first-five-sentence-critique-12/comment-page-1#comment-688</link>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, I sooo want to read on.
Hooked, lined, and sunk.
:)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, I sooo want to read on.<br />
Hooked, lined, and sunk.<br />
 <img src='http://giveagirlapen.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Liz</title>
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		<dc:creator>Liz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think the second sentence is not necessary/repetitive.

Very descriptive imagery.

I&#039;d end the last sentence with...&lt;em&gt;were about to be strengthened, I may not have been so melodramatic.&lt;/em&gt;

Great job...I&#039;m eager for more!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think the second sentence is not necessary/repetitive.</p>
<p>Very descriptive imagery.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d end the last sentence with&#8230;<em>were about to be strengthened, I may not have been so melodramatic.</em></p>
<p>Great job&#8230;I&#8217;m eager for more!</p>
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		<title>By: Jamie</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jamie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This intrigues me... big time.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This intrigues me&#8230; big time.</p>
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