Gud, I've gotten way behind in reading your stuff. I've been saving everything you've sent me, and I'll read it and get you my thoughts but I suspect my critiques will not be very detailed. I hope that'll still be helpful to you.
Where'd they get CAT scan from?... I mean, did they test it on cats? Or does the machine sort of look like a cat?
Dawn ,'Sleeper'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
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-t - Dec 03, 2009 11:19:18 am PST #2888 of 6690
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Gudanov - Dec 03, 2009 11:35:45 am PST #2889 of 6690
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Anything is helpful, thanks.
Gudanov - Dec 03, 2009 11:53:50 am PST #2890 of 6690
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There is some pretty general stuff I've very curious about. Which characters seem to work and which don't, which plot events are too telegraphed, which clues to future plot events get picked up, lots of general stuff.
-t - Dec 03, 2009 12:09:35 pm PST #2891 of 6690
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I can be general. I'll keep that in mind as I read.
Gudanov - Dec 04, 2009 5:19:05 am PST #2892 of 6690
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I finished up 32 for now. 33, 34, and 35 all need some corrections, but are close. Then will come 36 which will take some work, it needs a lot of rewriting and it's a very different chapter.
Gudanov - Dec 04, 2009 5:28:52 am PST #2893 of 6690
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Also, I'm having a hard time deciding on how to end 35. I have a character who is put in a certain death situation. The reader is going to know she's going to make it (because there is still more book left and there's really nobody to pick up the ball if this character bites it), but the how may be difficult to figure out (or maybe not, there's a clue, but I don't know how obvious it is).
Anyhow, I could leave off at the certain death point, or the point at which certain death is diverted but by a WTF moment that is also (hopefully) very intriguing.
Not sure which way to go.
Deena - Dec 04, 2009 5:57:56 am PST #2894 of 6690
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Gud, if I were reading it, my preference would be for the WTF moment. I get tired of cliffhanger must die but not really stuff. The other would be more interesting.
Gudanov - Dec 04, 2009 7:31:45 am PST #2895 of 6690
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That sounds like a good point and it's already written that way, which is another plus.
Gudanov - Dec 07, 2009 5:09:03 am PST #2896 of 6690
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I got 33, 34, and 35 and I'm now knee-deep in 36. 36 is a very different chapter and it needs to be largely rewritten, so I expect it will take some time.
Amy - Dec 07, 2009 5:13:45 am PST #2897 of 6690
Because books.
Great snark (with a lot of truth).