Ultrablamtacular!

Well, it’s been approximately forever, or more like twelve days. But the first of my trusty editors has delivered her notes. And the news is good.

That’s not to say that she loved everything – but that’s fine. In many cases, she confirmed my suspicions that what was there was not lovable. Suspecting that something is bad is torture, like a sore tooth you can’t stop messing with. Knowing that it’s bad is a relief, like having that tooth pulled.

On the other hand, a lot of the text was left bare of comments – and she assured me she was being picky. So that means that much of what I have is, in fact, good. This includes sections that nobody else has ever even seen, let alone playtested, like the sections on bad guys, resisting damage, and avoiding death.

She helped me flesh out what remains to do with a lot of great sections that should even be fun to add. Sort of kicks that “90% written” theory out the window, though.

All in all, this was one of the most gratifying and useful instances of feedback I’ve gotten so far. I’m very much looking forward to making all the recommended changes because I think they’ll help smooth out those parts I just couldn’t polish properly on my own.

Once that’s done (but before I add all the new material), I’ll be sending the manuscript out to my other really awesome volunteer editor. And with luck, that will be the last draft that’s edited in the word processor, because it’s time for this puppy to start moving into layout. That way we can start looking critically at a whole new category of issues.

Yay!