Welcome to ficly! I have a few pointers for you, if you welcome some advice.. Adolf’s description needs broken up a bit. When you say German Shepherd, I get an image in my head. if you were to say “black German Shepherd with patches of silvery brown fur and a spiky cuff due to his half wolf lineage” then I get a better picture than naming all of his body parts in a long string. The italics on ficly are accomplished simply with underscore dash marks. take out the words ‘italic’ and slashes on either side. :) oocampy?? Accompany? finally, the policewoman smiles when she’s unhappy? I guess it’s possible, but I thought I’d point it out for you to consider. One thing about ficly, these work best as pieces that end on their own, like chapters, instead of just parts of a story. It takes a lot of practice to get this down. It’s even harder if you’ve already written the piece and are trying to share it here. Just something to consider.
Welcome to Ficly Rue! I loved your story so much I HAD to write a sequel:
http://ficly.com/stories/26347
I think you did a great job. It seem’s you got lost in separating Adolpho’s reality from Delgado’s and your’s too. It’s difficult to find/create a voice for animals, keep working in it.
My only suggestion would be to find one voice and stick with it. I tried to follow your example in the sequel writing the story mostly through Adolph’s eyes.
If this is a genre of writing your attracted to, I suggest reading The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein.
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