There's a good reason for my blog silence of late. I swear. I've been busy. Like seriously busy. The end of the quarter is always nuts, and I'm also gearing up for the teaching-marathon that is summer school. Plus, there was a nice vacation to San Francisco hubby and I squeezed in there. Add to that the normal fun of grad school, and trying to re-write my novel, and well, some things get left out. I will be better about this though!
Anyhow, I'm posting today about the awesomeness that is Beta readers. Or critique groups, but I've come to find that having some good second readers (beta-testers in a way) are a bit better for me than a regularly submitting group that just gets a chapter at a time. Anyhow, I have two lovely ladies who I share stuff with, and I adore them. They both write amazing work, and know how to rip my stuff to shreds, which is just what I want them to do. So, I sent them my re-worked draft of CLM last week, and now I've got a bunch of awesome, shiny comments back to work with. This, my dears, is why it's good to have someone else to read your stuff. Because occasionally (er, okay, a lot of the time for me!) there will be places where you repeat words like five times in a page and for some reason it's impossible to catch this no matter how many times I read it. Or, a scene just falls totally flat. As in "what were you thinking?" flat. And I'd rather have the chance to fix that sucker before I send it back to any agents.
So, now I get to sit down, open a couple of word files and get to work. I am pathetically excited about this. If only I could get as stoked about finishing my effing dissertation...
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