I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.
–Unknown English Professor

I’ve spent much of the weekend revising the prologue and chapters 1-3 of In Her Eyes. Now I have sent them to two test readers for their opinions. I’m hoping they won’t have the same opinion as the English professor quoted above. I doubt they will be quite so harsh, and I’m looking forward to some helpful comments from both of them.

Revising this story has been a huge learning experience for me. Chapter 3 in particular bears little resemblance to the original version. In my first draft, the conflict I set up between the hero and heroine essentially vanishes in chapter 3. I realized later that this conflict needed to last a bit longer, so that required significant rewriting. I’ve also bolstered the world-building somewhat.

I’m so familiar with the characters, and I know what happens in the story, so I’m quite curious about how someone who isn’t familiar with them will react. I just have to remind myself that I won’t hear anything until mid-February.