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Which stories have you critiqued here? That's the place to start. Give a dozen crits, and learn from them. What patterns do you see? How does other's work shape your preferences? What traps did they fall into? Use that to refine your own work. Really put in a careful effort to edit your work...

There are intriguing aspects to this but you are dancing around the hook and not setting it. A blurb requires a sacrifice on the part of the author. You have to spill a secret and reveal a spoiler of some kind to get us invested. Otherwise it's just too generic for the reader to care. Give us a...

I will critique your blurb. You begin with a sentence fragment with the most important information missing: What is his name, and what does he lack? Amnesia is a really tricky cliché to make fresh. Why is he desperate? I know nothing about this character, and therefore I'm not invested in his...

The first 250 lines of a story are the most critical. These words are devoted to a summary that doesn't give any detail about the world or character, then moves into an info-dumping prologue. You have intriguing hints of what the plot is. There are supernatural crimes, and a young detective who...

That's inspirational!

This is the post that has drawn me out of lurker mode. I'm curious about this one star thing with your story.... what's up with that?

One has a middle name, and one is self-centered.