The King's Dragons, Chapter Two - I need a beta reader!
6 years ago
General
Remember the story I wrote a few years back? The King's Dragons? It was supposed to be the first chapter in a series, and I expected the second one to be ready a few months later. But what happened was quite the opposite. It wasn't just the writing that lingered on and on and on, I also had to fight uphill battles against such as corrupted files and lost USB sticks.
But hey, I finally managed to finish writing this beast, and that's what counts, I suppose. Even though I'm not sure if anyone here still is waiting for the sequel, but at least it's technically done.
Only technically? Well, yes. The problem is, I'm no native English speaker, so it's all written in a second language. (Which was one of the reasons why there were periods in which I struggled hard getting on with writing it.) So chances aren't exactly low that there's the occasional wonky sentence in it, nevermind unsound grammar here and there, let alone choices of words that are off.
Hence! I need someone to check the text for stuff like that, and (best case scenario) corrects mistakes and slips on the spot. However, we're talking about a very very long text here. This chapter clocks at almost 68.000 words. (Hey, this is why it took me so long!) For comparison: The first chapter had about 25.000, so it is more than twice as long. Yikes. So it's hardly a single evening's work.
Thus my question to you! Who of you would be interested in doing that?
In case someone of you is, we could negotiate something there. We could frame it as a commission... or even as a trade, in which would offer an art piece or whatever in return. ;)
Hope to hear back from you!
But hey, I finally managed to finish writing this beast, and that's what counts, I suppose. Even though I'm not sure if anyone here still is waiting for the sequel, but at least it's technically done.
Only technically? Well, yes. The problem is, I'm no native English speaker, so it's all written in a second language. (Which was one of the reasons why there were periods in which I struggled hard getting on with writing it.) So chances aren't exactly low that there's the occasional wonky sentence in it, nevermind unsound grammar here and there, let alone choices of words that are off.
Hence! I need someone to check the text for stuff like that, and (best case scenario) corrects mistakes and slips on the spot. However, we're talking about a very very long text here. This chapter clocks at almost 68.000 words. (Hey, this is why it took me so long!) For comparison: The first chapter had about 25.000, so it is more than twice as long. Yikes. So it's hardly a single evening's work.
Thus my question to you! Who of you would be interested in doing that?
In case someone of you is, we could negotiate something there. We could frame it as a commission... or even as a trade, in which would offer an art piece or whatever in return. ;)
Hope to hear back from you!
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its great to hear that more is coming and im lookign forward to reading the final product.