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What is Beta reading? - You are not editing, so you do not have to go through each line with a fine-toothed comb or deconstruct the story’s development. However, you can do so if you please. - As a Beta reader, our job is to give feedback to the author based on our experience as a reader and/ or specific questions they may have presented along with their manuscript. - I.e: An author may ask about how specific themes and characters come across, if certain eve

The differences between external and internal plot seem simple enough on the surface, but can trip up many writers. Once you get digging into your project, it’s easy to confuse the two or become uncertain where one begins and the other ends. Hopefully, I’ll be able to clear that up for you by the end of this article. External Plot Think of this as the “shell” or “skeleton” of your story. These are the bare-bones events that are either going to run up against what your hero “w