Beta please?

[Project13]

I am desperate, and no one I know knows how to/or is willing to edit my book! I've spent nearly a year writing it, but a month searching for someone to help me fix it.
And I'm not even half done with it!
Someone please! I need as much help as possible with this!

Seriously guys,I know I've been gone for a long time, but I really need you now!
Sorry for like... abandoning you all for a few months but I finally hit 50,000 words and now I'm starting to panic about the editing, there's no way I can make it the best it can be by myself now!
Someone please, help? O_o O_o O_o :squirrel: HA! squirrel... :squirrel: And another one...

Peace out!
Project 13

[Lykaios]

You should finish and then edit the book yourself, like the rest of us have to. Most of us have long projects that make the eventual editing bit look terrifying, I've got three myself. But editing is your job. You can post and get critiques and help, but nobody here will edit your work for you - that's your job.

It's your first draft, you're not finished, so don't think about editing yet. Just keep going with it, finish it, then go back through it, chapter by chapter. If it's been a long time since you last looked at those first few chapters, you may find you already have ideas on how to work on it, and a newer outlook to help you clean it up. Plenty of people here probably have some good editing tips - I know Majyk's finished and edited like seven, maybe more, novels of her own, so she'd be good to ask for tips.

If you're muddled, try finding organisation programmes that can help - I use Scrivener to structure my chapters and scenes (there is a windows version now, as well as a mac version) and various other programmes like Timeline, to help in other ways. There are also guides for editing and stuff on this site that can help you.

Just do your best, then post it up for people here to read and critique. They will help you with finer points of writing and overall character/description/mood/dialogue, etc and help you further. But the initial steps must be taken by you, as it is your work and we're here to help you get better at writing for yourself, not as an editing service and doing it for you.

[Majyk]

Yeah, as Lykaios said, try editing your stuff yourself first. I've written a bunch of novels (working on my ninth, actually), and I'm not even bothering posting them on YWO right now. The reason (besides my feeling guilty when I don't have time to critique) is that I know in a year, two years, or even a few months, I'll be able to edit my own stuff pretty well. I'll notice stupid mistakes, so I don't want to waste peoples' time critiquing something I can fix on my own.

So give your own stories a try before handing them off to someone else. However, if you have specific questions about how to edit, let me know. I'm currently editing one of my finished novels.

[Dabs]

50,000 words is not that much to edit, believe it or not. Neither is 100,000. If you really dedicate yourself to it, you can get it done within a month or so, depending on how you like to edit.

Edit: If you need tips, I can give some. :P

[Project13]

50,000 words is not that much to edit, believe it or not. Neither is 100,000. If you really dedicate yourself to it, you can get it done within a month or so, depending on how you like to edit.

Edit: If you need tips, I can give some. :P

I shall take you up on that offer my friend! Same with anyone willing to help!! *needs a lot of help*