Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-9392342-20160401200759/@comment-24101790-20160401212020

I wouldn't delete a story because it's an April Fools Day prank, I will remove a story that is not up to our current level of quality standards. Starting with the basics, avoid indention as it causes the formatting issue seen above. While talking about mechanical issues, here are a few capitalization issues: ""Come on Lilly!" He (he) called to the girl", ""Lilly!" He (he) called as he looked around for her.", "He smiled, "Don't think you can hide from me in my own field!" He (he) called as he crept around silently looking for her." You might also want to change the word 'called' as you use it multiple times in a short space.

There's a real lack of description here. "her dress tattered and torn and her pale body stained." Stained with what? There also needs to be a lot more basis for his frequent conversations with the scarecrow. This holds especially true when you have lines like this: ""Would you like to meet her? She'd love you! I'm havin' her over for supper tonight, I'll bring her out afterwards and introduce you two,"" as you have this line earlier: "he had figured an eighteen year old boy would be better off not seen talking to a lifeless object." He's worried about being judged for talking to a scarecrow, but has no issue introducing his girlfriend to one.

The latter half of the story feels pretty rushed and it seems off that the Lily would randomly wander into the cornfield, find, and be murdered by the scarecrow girl all without anyone seeing or hearing anything. I'm sorry, but these issues combined with the fact that we have a number of stories with a very similar premise 9scarecrow coming to life) that it really tipped the scales against your story. This needs quite a bit of work.