{"id":1332,"date":"2011-09-24T08:28:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T14:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2011-09-24T08:28:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T14:28:23","slug":"alpha-readers-sharpen-your-pencils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=1332","title":{"rendered":"Alpha-Readers: sharpen your pencils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rotten no-good cold or no rotten no-good cold, I still should finish (or nearly finish) the main draft of the new book by Oct 1, and within a week of that should have it roughly in order.\u00a0 (It&#8217;s not now, because of the various medical interruptions&#8211;to keep going, I wrote in whatever part of the story cooperated that day, so it&#8217;s added branches to its trunk fairly randomly. )<\/p>\n<p>So:\u00a0\u00a0 I will need some alpha readers who are strong on the structural side (the nit-picking comes later.)\u00a0 The rough sort I&#8217;ll do to get this out to people may not be accurate.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Given my aging memory, I can&#8217;t recall who, exactly, was on the last couple of alpha-reader lists (which I&#8217;ve misplaced, you see&#8230;DUH) so if you want to trudge through 160,000 (roughly) words of\u00a0 very unfinished manuscript setting a trail for revision to follow, contact me by email.\u00a0\u00a0 There will be the usual &#8220;makes the publisher happy&#8221; agreements not to reveal anything prematurely to deal with.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, and I&#8217;m off to get from 156,300 to 160,000+ as fast as I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rotten no-good cold or no rotten no-good cold, I still should finish (or nearly finish) the main draft of the new book by Oct 1, and within a week of that should have it roughly in order.\u00a0 (It&#8217;s not now, because of the various medical interruptions&#8211;to keep going, I wrote in whatever part of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,45,5],"tags":[62,58,107],"class_list":["post-1332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editing","category-revisions","category-the-writing-life","tag-craft-of-writing","tag-reader-help-wanted","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1333,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions\/1333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}