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Beta Readers Rock

September 14, 2015 A. B. Westrick 7 Comments

Over this past summer, friends gave me these comments on the draft of a new YA novel: “I’m confused here. Are the…

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Filed under: art, beta readers, character, craft, early readers, Jane Westrick, manuscript, process, revision, Southern fiction, Ted Weinstein, Writer's Digest, writing

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