Looking to swap chapters with someone

[[deleted user]]

I'm going to be completely straight with you, and I'm generally never so blunt or pretentious, but you really need to hear this. "If don't want red lines or simply can't handle them, you have NO business becoming a writer." No one poops out dollar bills. Your work will NEVER be great with it having to bleed first. ALL writers have to sick up their pride and subject their work (which is an extension of themselves) to criticism. It takes time and a lot of red lines to create something truly great. You CANNOT rely on yourself. you must do all that you can to perfect it before handing it off for others to edit and critique, but publishing a book tales and army. Those who can't suck it up and realize that their poop isn't gold will either never become successful, or with lose the readers they do get, because no one what's to support and author who thinks their work is too good, that they are to good, too be critized. You need criticism in order to grow. I know it sucks, but it's necessary. It's the only way to learn. As a writer myself, I have the opposite reaction to redlines. I love them! If I don't see any, I think whoever I sent it to did a spell check and didn't read the thing. I don't want that. I want my book to be ripped apart and on the verge of death. I want to see every flaw. Then I want to mend what's left back together.

Now, if you're willing to get back a bunch of red lines and comments, you can email the first chapter to authorheatherdowell@yahoo.com I'm looking to do a one for one switch, and we're whoring the same genre, so I think that would work nicely.

[[deleted user]]

wow. I used swipe in my phone and it really screwed some stuff up and changed writing to whoring, but I hope you got my point.

[Library Lady 📚]

Dowell's wrote: "wow. I used swipe in my phone and it really screwed some stuff up and changed writing to whoring, but I hope you got my point."

I kind of liked 'whoring the same genre' lol.

[[deleted user]]

Lol. I swear it does it every time. ANyway, some how I skimmed over like 2 paragraphs where you went into the description. That's not something I would read, but just because I don't like political pieces or books with characters over 30. I'm a bit picky. Anyway, best of luck. Totally not trying to be bitchy, by some times I just have to step on my soap box. I really do hope you one day accept redlines because criticism truly is the only way you will learn and perfect a piece, though nothing can ever be completely perfect.

[Jonathan]

I'd be happy to criticize your work if you're all masochistic about it. I hope the grammar and spelling in that rant isn't characteristic of your manuscripts.

[[deleted user]]

Lol. Are you offering to me or the guy that was on here asking for critiques? Oh I'm a horrible speller and not the best with grammar, but I can take the heat. If you were offering to me, my email is authorheatherdowell@yahoo.com I totally wasn't trying to steal betas. :(

[Dave]

I'm interested in working with Dowell - NOT interested in working with the OP. With that said, anyone interested .....