your audience?
Will you allow your friends/family/others to read your story as it progresses? Do you plan on allowing anyone to read it at all?
Monday, October 31, 2005
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Seppo might be allowed to read some snippets. And maybe, juuuuust maybe, the people who are participating... because those who are doing it will understand that the first draft will roam, be clunky at times, and sometimes just be plain old verbal vomit, and knowing this, will keep an eye out for the little gems and understand how wonderful they are.
But no one else will see my first draft. I know from last year that large parts of my novel made no sense and that I only discovered the actual plot near the middle-to-end. Without a full-on edit, it shouldn't be seen by anyone who doesn't understand the "first draft" status, because my ego couldn't take it. :)
Also, I really must emphasize that letting people read mid-progress is a mixed-bag.
On one hand, it is difficult to pass up the opportunity for external validation; on the other hand, even the slightest negative tone or insinuation, even in the spirit of constructive criticism, can drive up your will to live. Well, mine anyway.
Seppo was awesome last year in that during NaNoWriMo, he was a bastion of praise. He told me all sorts of stuff he liked and kept to himself anything he thought was crap, which must have taken a lot of self-restraint, because there sure was a lot of it.
By the way, for kerowack, I want to you to know that because NaNoWriMo hadn't started yet, I was giving you my 100% honest opinion and was not being Seppo to your Ei-Nyung -- how weird would that be? Heh.
I meant "dry up your will to live" not "drive up your will to live". Blogger needs an edit function. Sigh.
*resists temptation to trash the previous comment to replace with a typo-free one*
Sure, sure... :)
And as for anyone else reading it. From November 1st to the last day of the month, that's a "no". Come December I don't care who reads it though.
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