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Arctic Inferno


I am nothing special, just a proud Brony and eager writer, so please don't hate me too much if my work is terrible.

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Shimmering Steam's parents were not born at home. Neither were their parents.
Centuries and countless generations ago her village's true homeland was deserted, and she is determined to find out why.

My first real attempt at the steampunk genre, please rate fairly!
Edited by the generous Glocky! Go follow him!

ADDITIONAL TAGS: Steampunk

Chapters (3)
Comments ( 5 )

Not a bad try I must say. To say the least, I'm interested in seeing more. You're gonna need an editor and a prereader for future chapters so that it doesn't fall into bad waters. One group I could suggest to you is "Looking For Editors".

But I honestly think it was a pretty good try and has potential of actually going somewhere. :)

I like it very firm writing not a lot of grammatical mistakes. Could use more detail and a little less repitition of some word descriptions.

Comment posted by Glocky deleted Oct 10th, 2014
Comment posted by Glocky deleted Oct 11th, 2014

inside of it

Remove "of" for the sake of flow.

"Where innovation

Remove the capital here. You're extending the sentence, not creating a new one.

Shimmering sighed, a little unnerved from seeing something that looked like the line between pony and machine, and started frantically searching the room for a way to open the locked
door.

Nice use of spacing. Put the door back where it's meant to be xD

It began,

it* You should only use capitals after speech if it's a character's name.

other words,

Put a full stop rather than a comma.

"May we be of assistance."

Still a question, you explain that it sounds like a statement afterwards. Same applies for later utterances of the phrase.

It wasn't so much of a question, more like a statement.

End the paragraph here. It would also be better to keep the writing in blocks rather than small block with a little appendix-like thing on the end, but it is only really a nit-picky thing.

I need that door open.

Comma here, as you continue the sentence after speech.

She still couldn't be sure whether the animatronics really worked anymore past playing mindless recordings.

Put a comma after anymore, you sort of rush the sentence otherwise.

"Well, thank you." and "Your request has been fulfilled. Please move along."

It requires a comma, as the sentence still continue afterwards. Also, the formatting is a bit odd. I can't tell if it part of the next paragraph or not. Try and fix it, because formatting problems are pretty bad, but 'ez pz' to fix. Plus, after the former's sentence, de-capitalise 'she'. I'm still unsure if that's a word or not.

staring her down

You could use "staring down at her. It was almost like it was using a pony's judging eyes," for the increasing of word count.

BUT THAT IS A RESTRICTED AREA.

Use bold, because FULL CAPS IS ALL YELLING. Bold, however, is an increase in voice volume, making it sound more strict and enforcing. You should probably also create a paragraph separately after this (split the tree of speech).

"Hey! Get me up there right now!"

Keep this as one sentence on its own, create a split for the second paragraph.

Example, just in case you hadn't got it:


"XXXXX!"

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

"XXXXX! XXXX, XXX!"

XXXXXXXXXXXXX


"I'm afraid we can't have that."

You should centre the final quotes, including that one in the previous chapter. It looks... neater.

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