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I spent all of today editing. Like, well, like a lot of today editing. I did. I was good. I worked hard. I’m like. I’m most of the way through the bit that I sent out to betas.
I’m sort of torn– I’m really bad at getting stuff beta-read. Should I send the revised section out again? Should I just give any of the readers who are still willing to read the next bit, since they’ve already slogged through the first 50k, and I’ve done some alteration of the first part but nothing enormously substantive? But it seems like– making them read it again–
I don’t know. People who write really long stuff, help! What is the etiquette? I’ve added about 2k words to the 50k first section. So like– not a huge change, but there’s been some expansion of points and some re-jiggering of characterization and backstory.
It’s an enormous luxury to have beta-readers at all, and I’ve no idea how one goes about making that a pleasant experience for the readers.
I sort of don’t want to just paste the next 50k in after the first part, because that’s like, way too huge a document.
Also I should probably start thinking about a title and about chapter divisions and I just, I don’t know, that is definitely not my specialty. Hoo boy.
I know, I was going to finish it before I started editing it but I just really felt like it was time to make another pass through the beginning. It seemed like a good idea to remind myself what the story started out being about. (And my first thought was that I was going to make it be like, 12k words long. HA HA HA isn’t that hilarious?)
I spent all of today editing. Like, well, like a lot of today editing. I did. I was good. I worked hard. I’m like. I’m most of the way through the bit that I sent out to betas.
I’m sort of torn– I’m really bad at getting stuff beta-read. Should I send the revised section out again? Should I just give any of the readers who are still willing to read the next bit, since they’ve already slogged through the first 50k, and I’ve done some alteration of the first part but nothing enormously substantive? But it seems like– making them read it again–
I don’t know. People who write really long stuff, help! What is the etiquette? I’ve added about 2k words to the 50k first section. So like– not a huge change, but there’s been some expansion of points and some re-jiggering of characterization and backstory.
It’s an enormous luxury to have beta-readers at all, and I’ve no idea how one goes about making that a pleasant experience for the readers.
I sort of don’t want to just paste the next 50k in after the first part, because that’s like, way too huge a document.
Also I should probably start thinking about a title and about chapter divisions and I just, I don’t know, that is definitely not my specialty. Hoo boy.
I know, I was going to finish it before I started editing it but I just really felt like it was time to make another pass through the beginning. It seemed like a good idea to remind myself what the story started out being about. (And my first thought was that I was going to make it be like, 12k words long. HA HA HA isn’t that hilarious?)
