story recommendation: aurora

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"Aurora" by Emily@mibba
April 01/10, written by Taylor

Emily, or towers, is by far one of the best writers that can be found on the web. Her stories are highly original, entertaining, magical, and time and time again she finds ways to raise the bar. But of course, every great writer isn’t without their faults: spelling errors, grammatical errors, and punctuation errors. Normally, a series of mechanical errors can dispel any reader from furthering through the story, but the slightest of errors seem to just pass by your eyes, and you hardly notice the lack of editing when you’re reading it. That, I believe, is the trait of a good writer. If you can still make mistakes, but have no one notice it – then you have nearly mastered your trade. That’s not to say that mistakes are good, in fact I am the biggest Grammar Nazi when reading stories – yet, with Emily, those details are so minor because the whole story seems to rise above the words on the page.

Aurora is probably one of her best works yet, centring around a girl who doesn’t belong in the world she was placed in. She was raised as a Daughter of Artemis, a group of girls said to fight for the rescue of the Moon Queen by battling the evil Liche Queen and her army of wolves. But Aurora had always been different from the rest of the girls, always apart and longing to belong somewhere. Her compassion and endless wondering takes her on an adventure far out of her boundaries through a mystical world of Nymphs, Tricksters and other creatures of the forest on her quest to save the moon.

Throw in a prince of wolves, danger, and the famous case of star-crossed lovers, and you have Aurora in a nutshell. But the story is so much more than just the plot. Her descriptions are vivid and are described in just the right amount of words – never overdoing the adjective count. Her characters are so realistic, and they are all each so human and dimensional, it’s hard not to fall in love with them all. Even if you never dabble in the mystical realm of reading, this story is hard to avoid. When reading it, you never once think that it’s a fantasy story. Because you would swear, by the end of it, that it was reality.

Emily’s story, Aurora gets nine and a half moon queens out of ten – just because she’s great, doesn’t mean I’ll overlook the mechanical errors. But despite that, this story is a must-read.

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Alyssa
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"Writing…is my life. I love writing so much that I tend to disregard everything else that’s happening in the world just to spend time with myself and my characters. Sometimes I wish I could be “normal” and then I realize that being who I am, and what I am, makes me special because, if I think really hard on it, I know myself. I know every little thing that there is to know about me because tiny bits of my persona are in every last stinking one of my characters. I’ve been wounded with very few negative comments and have grown from them, maturing as both a person and a writer. There’s no substitute for the rush of getting comments on a story, or the serenity of being alone with people that aren’t real. I know that I have potential; I just really want other people to see it too."

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