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Now that I have finished Le Novel, I need a favor.
I need a few trusty people to read over my novel and give me comments. Sort of like a beta-read. I realize this is a big thing to ask, and I realize that people have lives. But I would really appreciate it. I'm not looking for anything fancy. I'm just looking for someone who can read it and tell me where things are boring or slow or don't make sense and the like.
In essence, I just need to see this thing from the reader's eyes - and I can't think of any other way besides just asking a couple of people to be readers and tell me what they see.
If anyone else has a better suggestion, let me know. But I do need someone else to look at the novel and tell me what's going on. Because being the writer, I have big honkin' blindspots.
The novel itself is entitled "Revenant Blues", and it's about 460 pages in OpenOffice. It's a fantasy/supernatural novel involving witches, faeries, vampires and the like. There's some sexuality, some genderqueer, and the like but not enough that it's a BIG deal in the novel. There's a big of violence, but most of it is magical violence.
I can put the novel into any format you need from Microsoft Word (.doc) or Rich Text (.rtf) or anything else. I can send it to you in parts or as a whole. Anything that's comfortable for you.
Again, I know, this is a lot to ask. And if nobody has the time available (which I totally understand, 'cause, y'all have lives and things you have to do and maybe even your own novels to write), I'll think of something else.
But maybe somebody out there could help a writer out?
I need a few trusty people to read over my novel and give me comments. Sort of like a beta-read. I realize this is a big thing to ask, and I realize that people have lives. But I would really appreciate it. I'm not looking for anything fancy. I'm just looking for someone who can read it and tell me where things are boring or slow or don't make sense and the like.
In essence, I just need to see this thing from the reader's eyes - and I can't think of any other way besides just asking a couple of people to be readers and tell me what they see.
If anyone else has a better suggestion, let me know. But I do need someone else to look at the novel and tell me what's going on. Because being the writer, I have big honkin' blindspots.
The novel itself is entitled "Revenant Blues", and it's about 460 pages in OpenOffice. It's a fantasy/supernatural novel involving witches, faeries, vampires and the like. There's some sexuality, some genderqueer, and the like but not enough that it's a BIG deal in the novel. There's a big of violence, but most of it is magical violence.
I can put the novel into any format you need from Microsoft Word (.doc) or Rich Text (.rtf) or anything else. I can send it to you in parts or as a whole. Anything that's comfortable for you.
Again, I know, this is a lot to ask. And if nobody has the time available (which I totally understand, 'cause, y'all have lives and things you have to do and maybe even your own novels to write), I'll think of something else.
But maybe somebody out there could help a writer out?
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Date: 30 Sep 2006 02:31 (UTC)no subject
Date: 1 Oct 2006 13:11 (UTC)My email is: tentative (at) gmail (dot) com. Let me know what you need!
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Date: 30 Sep 2006 10:34 (UTC)no subject
Date: 1 Oct 2006 13:15 (UTC)You can give me your response whenever you need to. I know that people have big things to do and a novel is a lot to read. Frankly, I was thinking it would take a month or two for people to be able to give me responses. I don't expect anyone to put their lives on hold for this.
So whenever you can give a response would be wonderful!
My email is tentative (at) gmail (dot) com. Let me know what kind of format you need the novel in!