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Re: Proofreading

If you wanted to help me proofread, please see below the cut for details 😀

Okay, so the instructions were thus:

  1. Prepare 1,500 words of a current work in progress (or one picture book manuscript) for submission to the email address listed in #3.
  2. Write and submit a statement of need and intent, detailing why you would like financial assistance and what you hope to gain from the conference. This may be brief, but must prove that you are serious about your writing and are willing to put in the work required for improvement.
  3. Submit all required materials as attachments by March 9th, 2015 (but not before February 9th) to [email redacted]. Applicant’s name and email address should be included on a cover sheet and on each page of the submitted work in progress.
  4. Scholarship winners will be notified by email and receive a voucher for tuition.

Here is my letter: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gn140arlK9Po9qN3NpUrrAmkwvBb_jDUw9lFeNwb2fE/edit?usp=sharing

Here is my writing sample: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S29Q3T_9vv0OPDPH2mrEQekddoh2QOPlYSzxOKMavjs/edit?usp=sharing

Anyone with these links can leave comments. I haven’t had a chance to do any revisions on these myself yet, so it’s probably really raw and terrible. OMG I am so bad at proofreading. I don’t need this to be perfect, but I would love it if I could get your help catching glaring errors and some feedback on interest or not. Awkward lines are awkward and I know that there are tons of them. T___T;;;

Thank you so much! I’ll leave these up until tomorrow afternoon. 8) 

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♞ {sick Kaito}

♞: Caring for each other while ill (specify which party is which)

They hadn’t always gotten along, but that was no reason for Hakuba to turn his back when the thief actually needed help – whether he wanted it or not. 

With the rapidly changing weather, a nasty bug had made its way around the school, forcing many students to stay home, and many more miserably wearing masks. This meant that there were far less classmates to deliver notes to the invalid, and with Aoko also out sick, it was up to Hakuba to care for Kuroba. 

Bringing homework and carefully detailed notes to his ailing peer was one thing, but once Hakuba saw that Kaito was home alone – again – he knew that there was so much more that he needed to do. All in the name of humanitarianism, of course. 

“Now, now, Kuroba-kun…” the detective chided gently, adding yet another pillow behind his back. “Don’t try to speak with your throat so irritated: post-nasal drip is wretched business, just lean back and drink this tea… It has pure, local high-grade honey in it, which should help. Just where is your mum, anyway? How’re you to get better if you’ve no one to take care of you?”

Hakuba frowned at him, sitting at his bedside, ignoring the pained and exasperated expression of the other. 

“I may just have to stay at this rate. I can’t have you dying on me… not before I’ve gotten you to admit that you’re Kaitou KID.” A pause. “That was a little joke, there… it’s all right, you’re not laughing because of your throat, yes? So, yes, drink that tea…”

[x]

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The box was surreptitiously slipped onto Hakuba’s desk while he was turned away for a moment. It was small, wrapped in shiny paper, with a note taped to it. “I know you could afford to buy a lot more of this for yourself, but it’s the thought that counts, right?” Inside is a small package of a more expensive chocolate. On the bottom is another message: “Though if you would prefer something else, just ask.”

It’s certainly the thought that counts, and he’s very touched by the gesture. True, he could buy his own chocolates, but they wouldn’t be something picked out of care from someone else, now, would they? 

After reading the note, Hakuba carefully peeled back the wrapping paper until he was able to sneak into the box and take a piece to nibble on during class, hiding the rest in his bag for later. 

There would definitely be a White Day gift in Kuroba Kaito’s future.

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(,,◕　⋏　◕,,) (KAITOCAT GO)

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Kaito, now a medium-sized, dark brown cat, mrowed, annoyed. How the hell am I a cat? And it had to happen while he was outside, so he was stuck, unable to open the door without a human height or opposable thumbs.

I’m hungry. If he were human, his stomach would be growling. He walked off, hoping to find something to eat.

Just a little ways away was Hakuba, seated on a bench and under a tree in the little grassy area near the prefecture’s local courthouse. Laid out next to him was his briefcase, full of documents for that day’s hearings, and in his hands was a carefully wrapped gyro. Lamb. Mm. 

It was only because things had gone so well that Hakuba was even eager to eat. So far, though, all of the cases that he’d assisted with had gone precisely the way that he’d expected them to. No odd surprises, no frustrating, futile disagreements… all open and shut cases with clear verdicts, agreeable jurors, and carefully organized evidence. What a pleasure to be helping the law in such a way!

Because he was in such a good mood, it made the presence of the feline only that much better, and Hakuba glanced over with a warm smile.

“Good afternoon, neko-kun!” he called cheerfully, then took a bite of his deliciously meaty sort-of-sandwich. While chewing, he dabbed his lips with a napkin, then looked back at the cat once he’d swallowed. “And how are you today?”