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My Novel - should I continue?

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  • #32
    Raiser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,929 ✭✭✭Raiser


    I've been working on a few rewrites since - I hope to have all edits in place and a new chapter posted for your consideration by tomorrow afternoon.

    - Thanks for all the encouragement to date!


  • #33
    baalthor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,243 ✭✭✭baalthor


    Raiser wrote: »
    ... he knew exactly the sound an athlete’s foot ridden foot shod in KGB issue boots made when kicking a front door in suburban Dublin ...

    The KGB were an intelligence/security organisation. Would they really have issued their own boots rather than using (Red) army boots when required?
    I've never heard of CIA/MI6/Mossad boots so why would the KGB be different?


  • #34
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,216 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    baalthor wrote: »
    The KGB were an intelligence/security organisation. Would they really have issued their own boots rather than using (Red) army boots when required?
    I've never heard of CIA/MI6/Mossad boots so why would the KGB be different?

    A quick Google search says they did. Seems odd for sekrit spiez to wear a distinctive uniform but I think there was a less covert element to the organisation that dressed in military-style clothes.


  • #35
    DangerMouse27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 699 ✭✭✭DangerMouse27


    I liked it! some great use of descriptive words for hair and appearances and such but seems very packed in.
    The Duran Duran usage was semi ok,but it evokes images or sounds in the reader,for instance i thought of 'Hungry like the wolf' as the soundtrack to the beating.Flesh it out and you could have about four or five good chapters in their.


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