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Not sure this is the right board, since it's mostly requests below, but I'll give this a shot.
How do you guys work through/filter detailed comments from multiple betas?
For comments that you allow through the filter (i.e. = these are crits I agree with and want to address), how do you handle that dataset? Do you do it rationally, like from a punchlist? Or do you just read, absorb it all, get overwhelmed, and then dive into the next version "rationally blind to betas' detailed feedback", following your normal process (in my case, = multiple prewriting drafts where character logic is hacked out) and hope your gut knows what's up?
Or is there another way?
I've got oodles of good feedback on my WIP (lots of it from litdawg, bless his puppy dog soul), but there are so many systemic/structural issues with the book, I can't think of any way to write something better other than to start over and pull in relevant "salvageable" passages when I know I'm hitting that point in the story. It's a workable process (I think), and I've used something like it before, but I'm afraid I'll miss out on addressing the more zoomed-in beta observations, which are pegged to exact MS wording in my current cataloguing-of-beta-feedback system, and that exact wording won't exist if I write from scratch.
What do I doooooo guyssssss thanks!
How do you guys work through/filter detailed comments from multiple betas?
For comments that you allow through the filter (i.e. = these are crits I agree with and want to address), how do you handle that dataset? Do you do it rationally, like from a punchlist? Or do you just read, absorb it all, get overwhelmed, and then dive into the next version "rationally blind to betas' detailed feedback", following your normal process (in my case, = multiple prewriting drafts where character logic is hacked out) and hope your gut knows what's up?
Or is there another way?
I've got oodles of good feedback on my WIP (lots of it from litdawg, bless his puppy dog soul), but there are so many systemic/structural issues with the book, I can't think of any way to write something better other than to start over and pull in relevant "salvageable" passages when I know I'm hitting that point in the story. It's a workable process (I think), and I've used something like it before, but I'm afraid I'll miss out on addressing the more zoomed-in beta observations, which are pegged to exact MS wording in my current cataloguing-of-beta-feedback system, and that exact wording won't exist if I write from scratch.
What do I doooooo guyssssss thanks!