Yay me is right.
Scene setting: January or thereabouts, 1948, the Isle of Dogs. Killer coalfire-infested smog - what used to be called a London Fog or London particular, and the reason the city used to be called the Smoke - pitch dark at three in the afternoon, impossible to breathe.
London's Royal Engineers BDU company 33 working on a patch of empty land, having found a 50kilo German bomb about four feet down.
We're about to see a ghost, and make one, too.
OK. Breathing and showering and going out and coming home and doing some editing for Susan and then, here's hoping, finishing the prologue (which is about half-done, about 700 words right now) and then asking for betas for the BRAND NEW BOOK.
Daaaaamn, woman. You just don't stop, do you? Whew! Congrats!
asking for betas for the BRAND NEW BOOK.
Oooh! Oooh! Oooh!
t raises hand and waves it around wildly
t taking a deep breath
Hiya. I'm looked for a beta reader or three for the Prologue to my book. It's an epic fantasy in terms of genre, but I don't think that that will matter too much for a first-time reader. Even if you're not a fantasy buff, I wouldn't mind your eyes.
Basically, I've written and rewritten and condensed the damn thing a million times, and I feel like I've lost my ability to judge it. My writing style is suffering a bit from the fact that it's been jumbled around and edited so many times that some of the fluency has been lost, and I'm worried that it doesn't have the momentum it needs.
My goals for it are as follows:
- to put the reader in this world as quickly and painlessly as possible
- to create a lot of unanswered questions
- to make the reader really curious about what happens next
Anyone willing to take a look? All I ask is that you not tell me it completely sucks, even if it does. I'm building my confidence back that this project is still worth pursuing.
Kristin, I'd be happy to take a look. My profile addy is good.
Kristin, you know I'm game.
Insent, P-C. Thanks.
(Officially in nail-biting land now.)
I wish I were productive like that, Deb. But for me, I'm doing well. About 1000 words a day.
(Officially in nail-biting land now.)
I'm listening to this half-hour J.J. Abrams interview right now, so I'll get to it after that. I want to give it my attention.
