looking for a couple of volunteers
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eimarraI've been working on my world-building for Sundered Sword, and it occurred to me that I need to tweak the way I was planning to use magic. Okay, fine, I was going to go with "illegal to use magic (under pain of death) unless a member of a specific group." It's been done before, I know, but I thought I could live with it.
Then I realized I'm using a very similar approach in Shadowed Sight (hey, look! another double-S title), which is what my 2004-2005 2YN eventually morphed into. Well, inasmuch as one can say that it's morphed when it's only a third of the way into the book. As with other projects, life came up, I set the book aside for a bit, fully intending to get back to it, and it is on my to-do list to get to.
Should it be? I'm plagued with doubt. Will I want to finish it if I use a similar plot point in Sundered Sword, which I'm planning to finish this year? Is it worth finishing? Maybe there's not enough there there.
Which gets me to the point of this post. (Yes, there really is one, besides me thinking out loud.) I'd like to find an alpha reader or two who's willing to look through the 32k (give or take a couple of hundred words) that I've written so far and just give me a simple opinion -- finish it, needs more subplots, too derivative, whatever. Fair warning: it's ugly. Characters change names (Aliya becomes Alesia, I think), some characters are unnamed (given such charming monikers as &&), there are notes to myself about things to deal with later -- it's all raw first draft. That said, if you're interested, let me know.
Maybe if the consensus is that the story's good, I'll put it on 2011's to-do list. (I have others on my "finish in 2010 if time permits" list.)
Then I realized I'm using a very similar approach in Shadowed Sight (hey, look! another double-S title), which is what my 2004-2005 2YN eventually morphed into. Well, inasmuch as one can say that it's morphed when it's only a third of the way into the book. As with other projects, life came up, I set the book aside for a bit, fully intending to get back to it, and it is on my to-do list to get to.
Should it be? I'm plagued with doubt. Will I want to finish it if I use a similar plot point in Sundered Sword, which I'm planning to finish this year? Is it worth finishing? Maybe there's not enough there there.
Which gets me to the point of this post. (Yes, there really is one, besides me thinking out loud.) I'd like to find an alpha reader or two who's willing to look through the 32k (give or take a couple of hundred words) that I've written so far and just give me a simple opinion -- finish it, needs more subplots, too derivative, whatever. Fair warning: it's ugly. Characters change names (Aliya becomes Alesia, I think), some characters are unnamed (given such charming monikers as &&), there are notes to myself about things to deal with later -- it's all raw first draft. That said, if you're interested, let me know.
Maybe if the consensus is that the story's good, I'll put it on 2011's to-do list. (I have others on my "finish in 2010 if time permits" list.)
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