Bones Alpha-Beta Reader needed
Over the past year and a half, I have been brainstorming or writing what was going to be a 7000-9000-word story (like you do) about Brennan's teen years, starting with her, in my vision, still alone in the family house, trying to maintain everything and go about life as if everything is okay.
Lots of chats and talks and phone calls and brainstorming later, I've had LOVELY people read each section as I finished it.
I have a completed draft that the blessed ayiana is going through and line-editing to fix my comma disasters, my wordiness, my Look!at!my!RESEARCH tendencies, and the places where I pull away from being in someone's head and making the emotion palpable instead of having the scene be authentic and raw.
What I need also is someone to read the whole thing, beginning to end, and give me an overall sense of pacing, whether the stuff I've started at the beginning has a payoff, if it works in character and as character development, and if it holds one's attention.
For 62,000 words.
Anyone able to do that by, say, next Monday or Tuesday?
Comments are always welcomed, of course, but what I really need is an overview from a one- to three-sitting reading of whether it holds together solidly or is missing stuff or is over-padded.
I'd REALLY like to start posting next week, but I would like a top-to-bottom read-through from someone who's not read it AT ALL first.
Any takers?
Lots of chats and talks and phone calls and brainstorming later, I've had LOVELY people read each section as I finished it.
I have a completed draft that the blessed ayiana is going through and line-editing to fix my comma disasters, my wordiness, my Look!at!my!RESEARCH tendencies, and the places where I pull away from being in someone's head and making the emotion palpable instead of having the scene be authentic and raw.
What I need also is someone to read the whole thing, beginning to end, and give me an overall sense of pacing, whether the stuff I've started at the beginning has a payoff, if it works in character and as character development, and if it holds one's attention.
For 62,000 words.
Anyone able to do that by, say, next Monday or Tuesday?
Comments are always welcomed, of course, but what I really need is an overview from a one- to three-sitting reading of whether it holds together solidly or is missing stuff or is over-padded.
I'd REALLY like to start posting next week, but I would like a top-to-bottom read-through from someone who's not read it AT ALL first.
Any takers?