After a scheduled visit to the dentist on Labor Day morning (!) and some shopping, including a visit to The Happy Book Stack, an excellent new bookstore in the next city over, Pleasant Grove, I had several hours yesterday to dig into my last beta reader’s responses to my novel. She gave me three pages of general notes in a Word doc and marked up the manuscript with lots of little stuff. As I began to process her notes, I pondered what I thought was my emotional response to detailed criticism, but turned out to be something else.
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