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First-off, promo where promo is due: winterthunder asked me to give a bump to australia_aid, a community for people offering goods and services for charitable donations to the bushfire appeals. Check it out!

I'm still getting comments on The Dead Isle now that it's finished and people can read it in a whack (and for those of you who are, I'm sorry for the extra 50-100k words you're having to wade through). And I got a lot of really good preliminary crit on the first chapter of Nameless.

Although, to address a few recurring themes...

I am not certain yet if I will be sending Nameless out to agents again. It's a decision I had planned to make once the next rewrite is complete. I lean towards "not", right now, only because umptymillion agents have already seen it and it's embarrassing to send it out again, even if it's better now.

Relatedly, I'm aware that posting a fictional work online is considered self-publishing and makes the manuscript less attractive to publishers, but it's not vital to me that Nameless have a professional print. I've made my peace with the idea of not being professionally published -- it'd be nice, but I don't think it's going to happen. I'm not sure I write the kind of stuff that would sell to a wide audience, and frankly I'm shit at networking and self-promotion. But I have a job I like, so I don't need the money, and I usually write to please myself anyway. If I don't solicit to agents I'll self-publish, which is more appropriate for small print runs and really kind of fun. I like self-publishing. I find typesetting oddly soothing. :D

I do appreciate the concern, and I definitely appreciate the concrit, though! Some of it I'm not sure how to implement, yet, but sooner or later I'll get there.

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So...working on the feedback from chapter one of Nameless, I thought I'd do a little process post. If you're reading Nameless you may want to read this just because there are some additions I've made to the master file but not to the first chapter, and this is a good way to get the info -- not ideal, but the most efficient.

If a lot of comments were made about something I tended just to nab the first one, for purposes of explanation, except with the Major Issue at the end. I don't intend to heed every single comment made because we all know what a committee can do when it puts its mind to it, but I think a lot of the suggestions were good ones and whether or not I end up using them, I can still draw information from them.

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