Awhile back, I was googling for some tips on creating a good opening chapter and happened to come across
Flogging the Quill, the blog of a freelance editor who takes the first 16 lines of your novel and will tell you if it was compelling enough to turn the page. So I thought it couldn't hurt and submitted mine and sat back to wait
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Hope that's okay.
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Is it awful of me to immediately have noticed the critic's badly written sentence, "What does it matter when or how she was taught her numbers, it's enough for the reader to know that she does." She does what, sir? Maybe he needs some clarification! I think he left out "taught to write her numbers."
There is something in me that always feels the need to reverse-nitpick the nitpicker. I am also a veteran of several vicious and/or precise English teachers. Anyway, whatever, I agree with the positive comments - very intriguing character!
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