The Tale of Mozart the Meerkitten

What do you think of my books? (Mozart, Fire Kitten, Catlition and Greatest Battle)

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72 pages in a normal Word document. But my friend and I discovered that if you put in on a horizontal page divided into two columns instead of a vertical page with one column it takes up the same amount of space but looks about twice as long.:p

I think we did that in my book too...

been editing my book, got through, what was it? 27 pages last night with my mom. :D
 
The prolouge, with my critique. My comments are in blue

A young she-cat It flows better if you say "Female" shivered as she trekked back to her den. She walked slowly in, careful not to disturb her day-old kittens.
A tom cat watched her from the corner as she sniffed a mouse he had brought, she gulped it down eagerly, not looking up until she had finished. This is a run-on sentence, and should be broken up into two. Example: "A tom cat watched her from the as she sniffed a mouse he had brought. She gulped it down, not looking up until she had finished.
“What will you do with them?” asked the tom cat.
“Who? The kittens? Of course she knows. Maybe it would be better if the tom cat had said "what will you do with the kittens" I’ll find someone to take care of them.”
“They are very little you know, you shouldn’t do this Do what? Get rid of them?.”
“I must.” Was the she-cat’s blank Blank means empty, or clear...I'm not sure what you mean by this word here. reply, she had to, but didn’t want to. Another run on problem. too many commas.
The tom shook his head, “You saw them, none can escape their grasp, the kittens will die without you… Please, Rita….” I'm confused. Saw who? Who is they? They'll die without her? I know you are trying to make it mysterious, but I'm more confused than anything.
“Jako I know you think it’s foolhardy that I might be able to get them out, but I can, I know I can. My one regret is that I’ll never see them become what I hope they’ll be.”
“And what is that?”
“Warriors. Warriors who can defeat Cogg and his army.”
“That is impossible! Rita, use your head, these little ones,” his tail swept over the kittens, “Are only babies, they won’t be warriors, they may not even live!” hissed Jako.
“Jako, I must get them away. Please help me.”
Jako sighed and reluctantly agreed. Why is he reluctant? He wants them to live, right?

That night the two cats readied themselves. Rita took the first kitten, a golden haired beauty, whose fur shown in the sun. Took him how? With her paws or in her mouth?
“I shall name you, Toto, you are my firstborn. Be a leader.” She whispered to the little cat, who wasn’t even a week old, but seemed to hear his mother’s voice, as he let out a soft mew in acceptation.
Jako stayed with the others until Rita came back. Rita then took the next kitten.
This one was dark haired and beautiful, one who blends with the shadows.
“I name you Caspian, be a protector and a kind boy.” She whispered, and again the kit gave a small mew of exception.
Then the next kitten, a pale blond-golden haired girl who wriggled with anticipation.
“I name you Dorthy Dorthy and Toto? No offense, bit it's a bit silly to name them after the Wizard of Oz. It makes it much harder to take this scen seriously, be a strong girl, be frightened by near nothing, have defiance and stubbornness like your mother.” This time the kit mewled loudly, Rita stopped a moment, then continued quickly.
Then the last kit, this one was the very tiniest kitten of all of them. She had dark hair and Rita carried her lightly and sang,
“Little one, little one, be greatest of all,
Let none bother you because you are small,
Be kind and sweet,
Though small and petite,
A tiny kitten,
The toughest,
Most defiant,
May the Lord King be with you,
Ever, always.
Mozart the Meerkitten,
My baby.”
Why does only Mozart get a song? And why is she a Meerkitten? (is that explained later) I doubt very much that cats would know about human composers....


Anyway, I'm sorry if this seems harsh. I am not trying to be mean. I'm just being honest and trying to help you improve your writing. You have an interesting idea and a cute story, and I'm certian that someday you'll be a very good writer. However, even a good writer can improve. Keep writing. :D
 
Alot of what you asked is explained later on in the story during the chapter (I think its 15 but I'm not sure :eek:) called Jako's Tale.

The names thing, the only one I would ever change would be Caspian's and thats only if it got published. And Toto is not named after the dog from the Wizard of Oz, he is actually named after a cheetah cub of that same name.
Mozart's name comes from a meerkat named Mozart. Mozart the Meerkat, Mozart the Meerkitten. Both are girls. I made up the name "Meerkitten".

The rest, like puncuation and stuff are things that I appreciate critisum(sp?) on especially on commas because I've had a laguage teacher and my mom tell me I'm kinda comma crazy.
And I will take your comments into consideration, because I am at the editing stage, and when I wrote the prolouge I didn't even know if I was going to go anywhere with the story or not.... I don't think I ever thought it'd turn into a 280 sum page book!

So thanks for your comments!:D
 
It is official; As of today, 12/7/09, I am going to write a fourth Warrior Kittens book called The Greatest Battle. I am writing the prologue to get my thoughts in order though I will not write much of it until I am finished with the other books.

Just in case anybody cared.;)


Oh yeah and:

SPOLIERS



At this point (meaning it may change later) there will be two main new kittens called Meerkitten(Meer) and Mitch.
 
YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You really do have to publish these.

lol

If I get my books published (which I'd love to) then my one requirement is that the publishers have to keep the names of the books the way they are. If they want to change the names then I will not have them published.
(I learned that you have to be stern about these things because I've heard that publishers changed the names of some of the Narnia and LOTR books against the authors will.)
 
lol

If I get my books published (which I'd love to) then my one requirement is that the publishers have to keep the names of the books the way they are. If they want to change the names then I will not have them published.
(I learned that you have to be stern about these things because I've heard that publishers changed the names of some of the Narnia and LOTR books against the authors will.)
You could always self-publish it.
 
It is official; As of today, 12/7/09, I am going to write a fourth Warrior Kittens book called The Greatest Battle. I am writing the prologue to get my thoughts in order though I will not write much of it until I am finished with the other books.

Just in case anybody cared.;)


Oh yeah and:

SPOLIERS



At this point (meaning it may change later) there will be two main new kittens called Meerkitten(Meer) and Mitch.

Do you have to tell us this before we've even read all of the second book?:p
Anyway, that's great! I'll be looking forward to it.
 
Do you have to tell us this before we've even read all of the second book?:p
Anyway, that's great! I'll be looking forward to it.

um, yes I do have to tell you.:p And I have some of the 3rd book already written anyway.
I finished the prologue but will not write any more of the 4th book till I have te 2nd and 3rd ones finished. And don't worry there are plenty of suprises in the 4th book and it will certainly tie everything in from the other books.;)
 
ok heres what I have to say;
1. I will (as you may have noticed) post updates on my books here and also ask things here as to keep the thread from dying.
2. um, help? I need a cool-sounding name for my little "world" (Reandalawo, Ventargo the other lands and places ect...) that hasn't been used in other books before and I can't think of anything! so if you can think of something it would be greatly appreciated.:)
 
2. um, help? I need a cool-sounding name for my little "world" (Reandalawo, Ventargo the other lands and places ect...) that hasn't been used in other books before and I can't think of anything! so if you can think of something it would be greatly appreciated.:)

Yeah, place names are very hard to find.

Here are some ideas---you could use a word in a different language that people aren't likely to know (unless they speak that language, of course!) Or you could find something in a baby name book. For the world of her Randallyn story my sister used "Amaris", which was from a baby name book.
 
Another idea is to take an ordinary word (probably a longer one for a place), write it out backwards, and see what you come up with. Then switch some letters around, add some, take some away, whatever. Even if you don't like it it might spark some ideas. I've gotten several names that way.:)
 
Then just to let you know; IF I ever get my book(s) published then Caspian's name would be changed to Aspian (A-s-pea-an) and Frodo's name would be changed to Rodo. Because of course they're named from my real cats who are named after characters from LOTR and Narnia, so I can't use them in my book. Just a heads up for iffin I ever publish them.;)

Actually, I don't see any reason you'd have to change those names. Caspian and Frodo are names used in those books, but they are also just regular names - not copyrighted or anything (to my knowledge). You should be more concerned with changing names like Fireheart, which does come more directly from a book. I think that kind of name would give you more trouble when it comes to publishing.
 
Actually, I don't see any reason you'd have to change those names. Caspian and Frodo are names used in those books, but they are also just regular names - not copyrighted or anything (to my knowledge). You should be more concerned with changing names like Fireheart, which does come more directly from a book. I think that kind of name would give you more trouble when it comes to publishing.

Caspian and Frodo are regular names? I mean sure I'd name my kids that, but how many people do you know with names like that?
And I usually call Fireheart "Fire", and I'm not changing her name.:rolleyes:
 
Caspian and Frodo are regular names? I mean sure I'd name my kids that, but how many people do you know with names like that?
And I usually call Fireheart "Fire", and I'm not changing her name.:rolleyes:

Caspian is, actually. There's the Caspian Sea. Frodo isn't I don't think. There was a person named Froda in Beowulf, but I think Frodo is original to Middle Earth.
 
Caspian is, actually. There's the Caspian Sea. Frodo isn't I don't think. There was a person named Froda in Beowulf, but I think Frodo is original to Middle Earth.

Yeah I know about the Caspian Sea, I just don't remeber it as a normal name. lol the only time I remeber hearing those as names are when I named my cats Caspian and Frodo! And they were friends too!:p
 
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