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Home > "The War Within", Projects, The Writing Process > Feedback Received On Short Story “Second Chances”

Feedback Received On Short Story “Second Chances”

November 7, 2011 Mathias Leave a comment Go to comments

I have received my feedback on my short story “Second Chances”, a prologue to the novel “Under the Darkened Moon” which I am also working on. That novel is now in its second go through after I completed the rough draft two weeks ago.

I asked people to be critical of the short story, whether or not they liked it and to point out places where improvements were needed.

I have come to conclude that either the story is near perfect or the people who I asked to comment on the story were not willing to give it the sort of critical eye it requires. Now I have to decide how to proceed. I did get some opinions on how to fix some of the verbiage which I am going to implement. But the general consensus among all that read it was that it was a very good story. No one had more than five or six comments and nothing groundbreaking that would cause me to rethink major parts of the story. Everything was minor.

But I will also probably submit the story to a second round of screening to a new group of proofers for their take. While it is possible that the story really is as good as my first round of readers said it was, I just would feel better making sure.

I mean, I have been writing for years. I know how to do it. But since fiction writing is a new thing for me, I need to make sure I get things right before I move this story forward.

Categories: "The War Within", Projects, The Writing Process Tags: Consensus, Critical Eye, Darkened Moon, Feedback, Fiction Writing, Groundbreaking, Improvements, Novel, Prologue, Proofers, Rough Draft, Second Chances, Verbiage
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