Jul 10, 2012: It seems reviews for ‘Diary of a Runner’ are very divided, with two 5 star reviews and one 2 star review. A fairly large gap considering that the former indicates professional level writing and the latter is ‘a tough slog’, a half-step from ‘unreadable’. The primary point of contention is the writing style.

So let’s be blunt; Diary of a Runner is laid out in such a way that it’s virtually unreadable. Gavin noted all of this: Lack of paragraph formatting, [more . . .]

Apr 25, 2012: "A Runner’s Diary" takes place in a post-disaster zombie infestation setting, like numerous other stories. So that was a star deduction. There are enough serials and movies in this mileu that writers should know they have to be compelling to bother, and fairly original to garner attention.

This story has nothing original to offer to its genre, so that was another lost star. I will say that I sort of enjoyed the narrator’s exuberant voice, it was weirdly humorous in a [more . . .]

Jul 9, 2012: This piece is a first-person diary-based story of a regular man, working a regular job and living a regular life when everything gets torn apart by the arrival of hordes of animated corpses. Having lost everything except his life, Dext goes on the run, as any intelligent human being who doesn’t wish to be lunch would do.

While many might brush this off as participating in a ‘genre’ that’s overly saturated at this point in time, I politely disagree. I’m a [more . . .]