A Sense of an Ending

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Over the last few weeks comments from my novel beta-readers have been trickling in. It’s the first time I’ve been through this process for a long project. Common wisdom says I should collect the responses and read them all at once. This way, it’s easier to get an overarching view of the novel’s reception and hone in on the common areas of work needed. I would be less likely to focus on individual outlier points.

Instead, I found myself opening each critique as they came in, be...