WRITING TIPS & WRITERLY MUSINGS
When You Ask For Someone To Read Your First Chapter
Warning: Rant Coming
It seems so innocuous, especially when you’re first starting out. You’ve managed to write something, you’re trying to decide if it’s worth pursuing, and you want to reach out. So, you log onto a writers forum and ask the question.
(It’s okay. Everyone does it.)
You log and you ask someone to read your first chapter.
I have to confess, when I see that plea, I just sigh. I sigh because I know the truth.
When a beginner writer asks someone to read their first chapter, I know what they’re really asking for.
What Beginner Writers Want
Well, they want what EVERY writer wants, really.
- – They want to be told their story sounds interesting
- – They want to be told they can write
- – They want to be told their characters are fascinating
- – They want…
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