The Aspiring Authors Society discussion

Offer to swap your projects with someone else and receive feedback too.

Thank youuuuuu

Guess I'll just copy-paste from the chat:

Basically, I was just wondering if anyone wanted to swap some writing? I've got this piece I started working on about three years ago which I got quite far into but sort of just lost sight of what I wanted it to be so I put it away for a while. I've recently come back to it as a kind of side project while I focus on a different novel I've been working on, and I feel like it has the potential to be quite a fun story, but I feel like I want someone else to cast an eye over it so I can get a sense of the reader's experience.

Coming back to it, my plan was to rework it away from the story I originally had planned because I felt like it was gonna be way too expansive and complicated, but at the moment I'm struggling to disassociate what I originally had planned from where it could potentially go and I'm just looking for a fresh perspective from someone who doesn't know what I was originally planning if you see what I mean. I'd like to do it as a swap so that I can get into the mindset of thinking about building a plot with a piece I'm unfamiliar with. I'm currently in the process of adding two new chapters but should have those done in about a week's time, at which point I'll basically have the setup for the rest of the story, so it would be a good point to get some feedback about where they think the story should go/is going so I can get some new ideas.

It's a high-fantasy YA story and I'll probably have about 15,0000 words (maybe closer to 20,000) ready to swap once the new chapters are added. Like I say, it is being reworked from the draft I started three years ago, but I've changed a lot so it's basically like a first draft (the manuscript is full of notes on the plot which I might leave in to see what people think of them), but it's also just my fun lil side project which I'm not taking super seriously so, even if it's still kinda chaotic, I'm happy to share it with anyone in a similar position.

Thanks so much!

Let me know if anyone's interested :D

I don't have anything much to swap but would love to read through, only problem is because I like doing an in-depth look into stuff, it may take some time. Or maybe not- just depends. And would it be on Google Docs with editing/suggesting rights- so I can comment through? If so, just send it across if you'd like me to look through but if you'd rather wait for someone who has something to swap, then that's fine also.