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Romeo and Juliet--A Parody
Summary:
Juliet Capulet is just your average teenage girl until a chance meeting at a community dance changes her life forever. She meets Romeo Montague, who immediately starts stalking her, claiming they are meant to be together. For Juliet, this is just too much; she calls the police. How did such a story inspire the great William Shakespeare? It's not how you think!
CarrieAnn13
Romeo and Juliet--A Parody
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MrPain, as much as I would love to fix the formatting issues, I can't. Copying and pasting your work takes away any italics or bolds (and different fonts) that you originally had in your work. This happened to me because this novel was my first submission. Shakespeare's part was originally in italics and the texts were Arial Bold. Alas, formatting issues.
Thanks for the feedback!
I very much enjoyed this parody. Being able to make people laugh is a woefully under apriciated skill.
I also loved William Shakeseare in this story, I know very few writers that can pull of a good intrusive narrator.
As far as criticism goes, you have some formatting issues. It kind of took me out of the story when I had go back and look at the line "lover boy's on TV" before realizing it was supposed to be a text. Try using a different font or bolding/italisizing it when writing text messages, emails, or IM's in your writing.
I also think you should add more detail and exposition in some parts. I understand that it can be a pain to write a transition sequence before getting to scene you really want to write about, but just saying "They Danced" really took away from the emmersion of the story.
Hope this helps in some way, and sorry about my horrible spelling and grammer.
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