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Nobody Wants to Read Your Bloody Book
Keep that in the forefront of your writer’s brain. It will hold you in good stead and you will never be disappointed again.
So you finally finished your novel! Nice.
Took you an entire year, you say? Well, isn’t that something? (That’s called ‘damned by faint praise’ though it isn’t — praise, that is.)
Wouldn’t it be great if you could get some feedback from — oh maybe some good friends or family members? — before you send it around for rejection by the entire publishing universe?
Of course, you need feedback, just a bit — only to know if you’re on the right track — if you’re actually getting somewhere with that book you’ve slaved over for a couple of years.
You need to know what a totally unbiased reader thinks. A quick read is all, a skim of your pages and a modicum of feedback.
You’d love to have someone read a couple of paragraphs. Maybe only one page. But of course what you’re cravenly hoping is they will not only read the snippet but eagerly demand more, as in: “I HAVE to find out how this ends!”
Music to our writers’ ears, or would be if it ever happened. Which it won’t.
