UnBooks talk:Daddy's New Wife - Philip

I havn't read Corn Flakes yet. But this caught my eye and was pretty good. Mind if I step in and make a couple of changes additions?    Orian57    Talk   13:50 4 August 2009

Sure thing. Go ahead. As you can probably guess, I have more or less abandoned it. Nameable • mumble? 16:23, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

I'll probably get to it - and the VFH voting, which I've bassically ignored recently -- later. But there were a couple of good laughs in there, and I love the title.    Orian57    Talk   16:26 4 August 2009

Cool. Yeah, the title was about all I had, I had to struggle to actually think of the content. Nameable • mumble? 16:36, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I get that, it rarely works out for me. Except with UnBooks:Daddy, There's a Zombie in the Garden, it worked out then. And with Why?:Is There a Moose On This Plane? oh and HowTo:Build the Perfect Sandcastle. Oh and I didn't have much of a concept for UnScripts:Heartbeat 2012 either. So actually I've bassically just disproved my statement, quite often I get a title and then the rest just sort of falls into place. but there is inordianate amounts of stuff I've had deleted (esspecially recently if you look through the qvfd archives) and even more I don't actually put onto the site. But Yeah you've got some good stuff here! I'll do this when I can, and I'd happily call it a collab.    Orian57    Talk   16:54 4 August 2009

Ok

So I did this up a bit, but I'm not really sure I did, enough for it to really be a proper "collab", I'll let that be your call. But did I make it better?    Orian57    Talk   22:35 4 August 2009

I like it! Extending the product placement was a good idea. Yeah, we can call it a collab. I like the pictures too, and went through and did a spell check. Its good now! Nameable • mumble? 09:44, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Yay, do you wanna out it up for a pee review? I think it might need one.    Orian57    Talk   10:50 5 August 2009

By which I mean, I just have    Orian57    Talk   11:17 5 August 2009

Humour:	9	OK, the humour in here is pretty impressive and exactly what I have come to expect of you Orian. However there are a couple of issues that interfere with my enjoyment of the article. You need to take another look at the product placement joke, while I understand where you are going with it, it needs some work before it is that funny. Currently it just feels unnecessary and a distraction from the main story-line, while it is OK to just have a random joke in an article, in an UnBook you need to justify it's inclusion. Is there a reason for the product placement? If so tell us in the preamble. Also I think you should note that Rugby league isn't a brand so you should reconsider the caption on that image. Also, product placement does refer to products only, otherwise it is advertising of an organisation which is obviously totally different. The second problem is that a couple of the jokes feel tacked on rather than integral to the plot. The article could do with a little bit of trimming around the edges.
Concept:	9	I like the idea behind the article and think you execute it in a pretty good way. My issue here is with the tone more than anything else, if you are going to utilise a free indirect style to provide the humour in your article then you need to be consistent with it. There are a couple of instances where you slip into either the first or third person and the tone jolts abruptly. You need to read through and iron these out as they are careless mistakes, but fortunately very easy to sort out. If you are unsure where you lose your tone then you have to read and make sure that what you are reading conforms to the rest of the article, the Free Indirect style is one of English's most difficult and you need to ensure you carry it off successfully.
Prose and formatting:	7	Yes, characteristically slack here Orian, not bad enough to obstruct the enjoyment of the article but bad enough to drive me to correct while I review. Don't start sentences with 'and' it just raises my blood pressure! Make sure your sentences are constructed properly and make sure you aren't comma splicing. I know it is difficult to do while writing, but that is why you need to do some proofreading afterwards. I know it isn't fun but it is necessary, at least to score higher than a 7 in this category. Your formatting is OK though you need to include a couple more line breaks as the prose can get a bit on the large side. Not totally necessary, or, perhaps desirable, I leave it up to you. There are plenty of pictures and you don't, in my view, need to add anymore.
Images:	8	This score is mostly because, the images are fine, but the complimenting captions need to be addressed, the rugby image especially, could be infinitely better than it is currently. The windows one in OK, but still in need of work. The book cover image is fine and nothing needs to be done to that, I would just encourage you to consider changing the others, or at least their captions.
Miscellaneous:	8	My overall grade of the article
Final Score:	41	This is pretty good and is a genuinely amusing article. There are just lots of very minor problems which are a real drag factor on it's overall score. A bit of work and some polish is all that is needed to fulfill the potential this article currently has. It seems to be ready to be really funny, but isn't quite there yet.
Reviewer:	--ChiefjusticeDS 19:00, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

there we go Nameable. Why don't you go through it and try and apply some of it, I would but I can't honestly be fucked right now.    Orian57    Talk   21:12 5 August 2009