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So for all you authors out there, I have a question for you. If you have a story that you've been working on for a while but are not sure whether or not it'll be worth releasing, would you release it and hope it sticks? Or would you just can the story and maybe come back to it? I'm asking this because I kinda wrote a story that was inspired by a few different stories that I've read, but I don't think I did it in the right manner to warrant releasing it. Reading back on it myself It seems like I screwed something up in one way or another but I'm not sure. Have any of you ever had to deal with this? I'm just stuck on what I should do with this particular story.
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Ask someone you trust
to read it through in draft form and give you an appraisal or perhaps tell you how you could sort out the problem.
Angharad
Perhaps a question of "voice"?
I wrote just lots and lots of after action reports for years, and those can seem very clinical and stilted. So it is easy for me to slip into that style or voice in my writing. Whether you write in first person or some other can affect how your story feels. I wish you luck in sorting your story out.
Gwen
What is the Genre
What is the genre and how long (number of words) is it?
JIll
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
have someone act as a beta reader
they could give you some feedback on it.
We all question
We all question our stories after we have written them. And we always can see places we think they should be rewritten, written from a different perspective or a myriad of other things we as the writer sees in the finished work.
AS many have said above, ask someone to beta read it. I am sure there are plenty of people here that would love to do that for you. Or just go ahead and post it here, and see what readers post for comments. This is a really great place for the beginning author as I everyone tends to post good quality and supportive comments to all the stories.
We the willing, led by the unsure. Have been doing so much with so little for so long,
We are now qualified to do anything with nothing.