Before we start to curate an author's Spun Yarn Manuscript Report, we ask how far along they think they are in the editing process, on a scale of 1 - 10. The average score over a hundred manuscripts? 7.3. We also track every manuscript's scores from readers, who are comparing the manuscript they've just to other well-known books in the genre. The average overall score? 6 / 10. There's a gap here. It's grayish, smudgy around the edges, and rrrrrreally annoying to authors.
Read MoreHow do you translate your beta readers’ pacing comments into an action plan to revise your novel? In this series we share our learnings from more than a hundred beta readers’ full manuscript comments. In this post we Pacing.
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