After weeks of annoying distractions, I have finally plodded through my book to complete the first round of editing. I'm calling it the second draft, and have slightly changed the title to Escape From Allbridge. It's slightly more exciting and implies more of an actiony feel then the more political "Fall of" title. It will likely change again as soon as mind comes up with a good metaphor for it all.
I've given it out to two readers thus far, might be more if I can make two people who actually read care enough. One thinks the Halo novels are worth reading. I don't know what to say to that, except it kind of makes me sketchy of his opinion. It SHOULDN'T, given I've never read the damn things, but my mind has granted the verdict of crap until proven not crap, and most video game stories just don't translate well to book form since video game stories, much like action movie plots, are meant to be excuses for cool shit to happen not be a good, entertaining read.
The other is a woman with an unhealthy dragon obsession(She'll be disappointed at the lack of dragons showing up in EfA) and has apparently read more fantasy novels of varying quality than I can ever hope to do. I ought to try to get more of a sampling and force it on anyone who's gullible enough to read my nonsense, but I don't know. Maybe I should join some sort of writer's sites and grow on a critiqueing spree. Something called Scribophile being advertised on Something Awful(and oddly Agent-Query, the site I plan on using eventually).
For now, it's wait for feedback, and try to figure out Open Office so I can format them better for queries. Also, turning to edit The Aloysius, which really needs it cause I used a shitton of cliches I shouldn't have because I hate cliches.
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