I'm just happy I got it right for her. I have beta read before, but never a novel of this size. I'd read scripts and novellas and short novels, but nothing so big as this. It made me giggle to be called a kid, too. I'm 26 years old! But, I understand. This lady is about the same age as my mom, so her calling me a kid made me giggle not because I thought it was silly, but because I don't even get ID'ed for cigarettes anymore. Made me feel good, LOL.
New discussion! I had a thought. A new thread called Hounding After Hours. Where we hounds can goof off in our horror thread here in the horror section (Umm... even more so than we do here in this thread) and discuss "night" options. For example: Everyone knows the old cliche "cold, dark night" or the "dark stormy night". But what about the hot sticky nights? Or what if you live in Alaska where they have days without nights? What about them? Describing night time can be a bit repetitive... you see similar descriptions in all books, not just horror. So, what if we talk about the night time to find new descriptive words... or phrases, or even metaphors and the like. Or, just different ways of giving the impression of darkness, without coming out and saying the word dark or night. ?? What do y'all think?