Help needed!
Jul. 31st, 2012 08:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deathpixieSo, I have the story I wrote for the NaNoWriMo last year. I want to try and overhaul it, perhaps see if I can get something vaguely worth trying to publish (the basic idea is fairly sound, or at least, I think so). The problem is, I'm trying to figure out a fundamental structural thing and I can't without getting people to read it. Only, it's as rough as guts and I'm kind of embarrassed to have people read it before I at least do some editing. But I can't edit until I solve the structural issue.
Dilemma, yes?
So, biting the bullet here. I need some people to read it over, with only a couple of things in mind:
1) Is the concept worth trying to work on it some more? I think it might be, but I'm usually pretty pessimistic about my ability to come up with good ideas;
2) It's currently written from multiple 1st person viewpoints, with a different character 'talking' each chapter. Does that work for this, or should I pick one character to tell the story?
With those two questions in mind, and only those two (I'm really just looking for a structural opinion, not a full edit at this point, I'm really needing to stress that, since I know it needs a lot of work to clean up the plot and the general writing), who would be up for reading an urban fantasy/cop procedural of around 50,000 words?
Dilemma, yes?
So, biting the bullet here. I need some people to read it over, with only a couple of things in mind:
1) Is the concept worth trying to work on it some more? I think it might be, but I'm usually pretty pessimistic about my ability to come up with good ideas;
2) It's currently written from multiple 1st person viewpoints, with a different character 'talking' each chapter. Does that work for this, or should I pick one character to tell the story?
With those two questions in mind, and only those two (I'm really just looking for a structural opinion, not a full edit at this point, I'm really needing to stress that, since I know it needs a lot of work to clean up the plot and the general writing), who would be up for reading an urban fantasy/cop procedural of around 50,000 words?
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Date: 2012-08-01 12:35 am (UTC)Rossi, you are singing my FAVORITE SONG. It's like you typed all those letters but under them is secretly, in invisible. "Come reaaaaad me, Fritoo."
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Date: 2012-08-01 01:05 am (UTC)I did mention it was rough, yes? *wibble*
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Date: 2012-08-01 01:07 am (UTC)Semi Qualified opinion
Date: 2012-08-01 01:48 am (UTC)Frank No Pants, as always, wants to give an opinion too but I'm thinking that will be counter-productive
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