Oh girl {{{hugs}}} You're gonna be fine and there are plot and storyline beta's out there to use as a sounding board and can keep good oversight of a story to help out. Not the detailed minor things, but the helicopter view thing. (eugh I am not awake yet, so I am not sure I am making sense) Since I am most often such a beta and you lose sight, just let me know.
It's funny because whenever I start a new novel, I actually get nervous. It's like I feel that if I mess up on those first few steps, the rest of the novel will be scrap.
Well this is why I am hesistant to post a wip and I mostly give in because a beta is so bouncy about it or friends are so looking forward to see it at an archive. I always try my best to get it in best shape possible, but I think I just lose readers who read the first chapter without reading the rest because it's a wip and they don't want to wait for it so long before I update. Oh it's a Rhapsody WIP, who knows when that *ever* gets finished. It would explain the big hits on the first chapter and then nothing... (because the second chapter most often gets posted weeks later) I do have a strong outline and yes a plot is in there, woven into layers and such. But I just don't have much time to write. *sighs* I want a month of writing too.
Maybe I'm still paranoid after having to hammer the first ten or so chapters of AMC into shape, both stylistically and mechanically. I never want to go through that again, so I make sure that I know what tense and PoV I want to use. (And I changed both on the N/F novel before one page was finished....) Doing ten revisions solely to tweak tenses is not fun at all.
Nopes, I can see that, no fun. I once had a story back (yeah a wip, Starfury, (Isil wrote a companion piece to that, The Quest) with the note of the first five pages looked at by a beta with the note that I had to make changes in the passive voice to active voice. I was bewildered because I had *no* idea what that was and neither was it explained by the beta. That halted me for 6 to 7 months because a) I felt ashamed that I had no idea what I did wrong and what I could do about it b) Isil dragged me out of that writing block told me to write Abrecan, and got me signed up for archives. I still get nervous when people start to give feedback with grammar terms and I have no idea what they are talking about. Being an ESL writer is tough sometimes.
But still, with a WIP you have a right to change it, *you* always have readers who want to read your material for a second time :c)
And writing with Bobby!!!!! Oh that sounds so much fun!!!
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It's funny because whenever I start a new novel, I actually get nervous. It's like I feel that if I mess up on those first few steps, the rest of the novel will be scrap.
Well this is why I am hesistant to post a wip and I mostly give in because a beta is so bouncy about it or friends are so looking forward to see it at an archive. I always try my best to get it in best shape possible, but I think I just lose readers who read the first chapter without reading the rest because it's a wip and they don't want to wait for it so long before I update. Oh it's a Rhapsody WIP, who knows when that *ever* gets finished. It would explain the big hits on the first chapter and then nothing... (because the second chapter most often gets posted weeks later) I do have a strong outline and yes a plot is in there, woven into layers and such. But I just don't have much time to write. *sighs* I want a month of writing too.
Maybe I'm still paranoid after having to hammer the first ten or so chapters of AMC into shape, both stylistically and mechanically. I never want to go through that again, so I make sure that I know what tense and PoV I want to use. (And I changed both on the N/F novel before one page was finished....) Doing ten revisions solely to tweak tenses is not fun at all.
Nopes, I can see that, no fun. I once had a story back (yeah a wip, Starfury, (Isil wrote a companion piece to that, The Quest) with the note of the first five pages looked at by a beta with the note that I had to make changes in the passive voice to active voice. I was bewildered because I had *no* idea what that was and neither was it explained by the beta. That halted me for 6 to 7 months because a) I felt ashamed that I had no idea what I did wrong and what I could do about it b) Isil dragged me out of that writing block told me to write Abrecan, and got me signed up for archives. I still get nervous when people start to give feedback with grammar terms and I have no idea what they are talking about. Being an ESL writer is tough sometimes.
But still, with a WIP you have a right to change it, *you* always have readers who want to read your material for a second time :c)
And writing with Bobby!!!!! Oh that sounds so much fun!!!