by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I had gamed out the rest of the week so carefully. I was going to chill out until Saturday afternoon this turn around and throw myself into turning my private beta into a public beta.
But, surprise!
This morning I sat down and started editing the private beta. Things are moving really fast, but there is also a real risk that I’m going to get bogged down rewriting a lot of scenes that just aren’t good enough to be in the public beta. But, who knows.
I still have a lot of hope that I will be able to wrap a public beta by no later than July 4th. And, yet, who knows, you know? A lot of the rewriting that I’m doing is how different things read when you actually play pretend try to read the novel as an objective third party.
I had two sexxy scenes right next to each other that I was totally oblivious about how bad doing so looked, so I had to throw everything up in the air to fix. The problem is fixed, but the whole thing caused a cascading series of events that changed the nature of the novel in ways big and small.
The whole thing was totally unexpected.
But, anyway. Some longer term quibbles I have is my female characters migtht be seen as too emotional. And my heroine doesn’t have enough agency (at the moment.) She gets saved in deu ex machina ways too often and I really need to fix that.
And, yet, in general, things are going really well. My biggest concern is in my attempt to make things “perfect” I will get bogged down to the point that a year from now I’ll still be futzing with things.
