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variouse prose works, need imput

 
 
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Didymos Thomas
 
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Reply Sat 4 Apr, 2009 10:04 am
@The profits pen,
The profits pen wrote:
(here's a few prose works I've been working on in the last few days, feel free to disregard anything seemingly incoherent)


Ah, but if we disregard the apparently incoherent we might very well miss something worth making comprehensible. Smile

Regarding the First Section:

Grammar:

"anyone may enclose their time to"
"Enclose" is a transitive verb, and so it needs to take a direct object. 'Anyone may enclose their time to ____.' To what?

"one must train themselves"
Your noun does not agree with the pronoun. One is singular, while themselves is plural.

Now for punctuation: I have to admit, your use of punctuation is confusing. Punctuation follows specific rules, but there does exist some stylistic space for the writer to work with, even in prose. I'll take one sentence that stood out as being awkward and try to show you what I mean. Keep in mind that my punctuation is most certainly going to contain what an English teacher would call an "error", but I think I can show you a few ways to reduce the chance that your potential readers will feel swamped by your grammar.

The profits pen wrote:
This by all means is a pinnacle of human expression, the existence of one thought, shifting to another, the creative template for which one may work from, the visible, yet invisible fathoms that some, and anyone may enclose their time to, to build and to work upon, a masterful thing is the art of thinking.


Rewritten:
This, by all means, is a pinnacle of human expression: the existence of one thought shifting to another, the creative template for which one may work from; the visible, yet invisible fathoms that some and anyone may enclose their time to, to build and to work upon. A masterful thing is the art of thinking.

In the rewrite I have made the last clause an independent sentence. If you want to keep the text as a single sentence, I'd suggest perhaps '...work upon: a masterful...' or '...work upon; a masterful...' or even '...work upon - a masterful...'
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