Talk:Wendigo/@comment-26128256-20150220092442

Overall, I thought this was extremely well-written. It's descriptive enough to make it able to visualize exactly what the author wants you to see, but not to the point where information becomes irrelevant. I largely believe that the best scary stories have a base in reality or some situation that could actually happen in someone's life, which this also does very well.

The only criticism I have is that the ending is very abrubt. As I said, the descriptive parts of this are one of the best elements, but near the end it trails off a bit, leaving it almost a little too open ended. Not the last paragraph specifically; leaving the final piece of the story to the reader's mind eye is probably the best way to end a bit of writing. It just seems as though it's cut short from the time the narrator first "feeds".

You should try posting this on reddit, specifically www.reddit.com/r/nosleep - I find that reddit is an amazing website for writers to post stories (fiction or non-fiction) to receive near immediate feedback. There's also a subreddit called www.reddit.com/r/writingprompts which could give you ideas in case you'd like to try a different genre of writing.

Like I said, overall this is great. It draws you in and keeps you locked onto the story very well. Just touch up the ending a tad and I think it'd be perfect.

Cheers!