Are you volunteer?
Oh my goodness, no. I have my own manuscripts to work on with my own stable of pre-readers. I simply could not hold back any longer expressing what I have imparted to you. It had to be said.
Personally, I do not think your strategy is a wise one or a fruitful one. At best you’ll get a little advice like mine or some friendly helpful tips from other good natured people around here. At worst someone will be a complete asshole and just criticize without be constructive. But waiting and hoping for volunteers, especially from a collection of other writers working on their own projects, is not a winning track. We’re all busy people focused on our own IPs. And it is never wise to trust any stranger with your work. And I know I am probably not the only one working right now with a great deal of enthusiasm, because we are all seeing a great sea change about to occur in the entertainment world, and there are going to be opportunities to get our IPs out there. When TV and movies start coming up dry in the next year, people are going to start reading books again. Publishers and agents will either be hungry enough to not gate keep, or people will find a way to independently publish through the likes of crowd funding as in the Comicsgate model.
I myself have spent this past week now toiling over the last chapter of my current book for the simple fact I want to get it just right, when other times in the past I might have just sped on to get it done and worried about cleaning it up on the big edit. That is the only reason I’m up at this hour, almost face planting on my keyboard, because I had to reach a certain point before I could allow myself to stop. I’ll probably go back and fix some things I did in the past hour tomorrow, but at least I hit my mark.
So again I urge you to take stock and refine your IP, because what you are showing off now is not even remotely close to professional standards.
Good luck.
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