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A big thank you to everyone who has been reading "Round Two;" especially to those who have sent me their support. With chapter 6, your votes have pushed me over a personal milestone: a 7+ score.
Chapter 7 is on its way and should bring us closer to where I want to be before I can begin the real story.
Thank you again,
-T
You probably already know this, but I started posting my first story this week. I'm not sure what caused me to make that choice, but its done and I'll see it through.
The story started as prep-work for NaNoWriMo, getting into a high-word-count groove as it were. As such, it has minimal editing (just a re-read or two). I've already found many items that I'd like to change, but the other hurdle of Nano is no editing, so it will stand as is. I am planning to revisit the story with a major edit or re-write sometime in the future, so please don't send me spelling or grammar edits, I'm just deleting them.
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Being an author has opened my eyes a bit. I've always heard some griping from other authors, but I figured it just came with the territory. Good lord how wrong I was. For such a crappy story, I've already received an average of 50 messages per chapter. About 70% of those are messages of thanks, letting me know they enjoyed the story, or wondering when the next chapter will release. Those are great. About 20% are just correction alerts. I understand these too, but they get deleted immediately--I haven't asked for help and I'm not going to spend the time making the corrections.
By far the worst is the last 10%. Jesus christ guys, calm the fuck down. These are messages along the lines of "this is how your story is wrong" or "clearly you meant to say XXXX". No. I didn't. I can only imagine how bad it was before Lazeez turned off anonymous messages. I'm only 2k words in and I'm, already considering turning off email. I didn't ask you to be an editor so don't elect yourself.
In short, those of you who sent your thanks or questions, I appreciate it.
The rest of you should save your keystrokes.
-T
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