#I'm more just thinking of putting feelers out there and gathering info :)

[essenceofarda]

Question for people who write Serialized Fiction

Question for people who write Serialized Fiction for the purpose of (at least in part) monetizing it--for example, I have an original story idea i'd like to write and post chapter-by-chapter, serialized style, online, and then have early access on my patreon (and maybe once it's entirely finished, do a massive edit and publish as a novel/book series).

My issue is that I'm not confident enough in my writing/storytelling abilities to publish chapters (Even with the knowledge that I'd have the chance to be polishing/changing/more thoroughly editing everything once it was completely finished) without having an editor review/proofread and maybe to some extent copy/line edit my chapters before i update them on whatever site(s) i choose to serialize the story on.

So my question for people who write serialized fiction, how do you go about finding an someone to be what I can only describe as a "Professional Beta Reader" and/or "on call" editor (meaning this would a gig that could potentially last a few years, theoretically speaking, or however long it might take me to write this story in full)? And for those of you who either DO this kind of work, or hire this kind of work, what would be a good amount/word to expect to pay for such services?

Note: this wouldn't be for fanfiction, but an original fiction story I plan to monetize, hence why i would expect to pay for this service

#funky's personal tag #It's an idea i was originally gonna make into a webtoon... #but i'm impatient and BTCT is gonna take me a few more years to finish lol #Not ready yet to hire someone as I'd like to flesh out the story a bit more and probably write a few more chapters before i think about #editing and/or publishing anything BUT #I'm more just thinking of putting feelers out there and gathering info :)

[ill-be-istj-if-no-one-else-is]

Hello, thank you for your response. I'm sorry for all the mistakes I made in those asks, and yes, I've been considering en 9, with 7 and 3 or 4. It's true that I'm avoid unpleasant situations, but I find that anger is one of my strongest emotions, that I'm always avare of, and feel guided by, however strange that may sound. I read that 9s may not know that they are mad, and that does not sound like me. (1/)

I will ask you to bear with me for a little bit more, and see if I can find something useful. I have little to no doubts that I am a sensor, and a feeler. I am really defensive about my logic and thoughts, and I tend to keep quiet cause I'm afraid I'll sound stupid and incompetent and someone will harshly criticise my thoughts. That's why I try to self correct or point out myself if I said something not rational, so others would not do that for me. As I mentioned, I'm afraid of (2/)

being seen as incompetent, cause that's how I feel all the time. I'm not good with knowing how the world works, but I'm good with gathering info. That's what I like to do. I started learning a language because I liked its writing system and I want to understand it, to read a book in it. I like studying, going to lectures and soaking up all that that the teacher is giving, saying. But I remember just a broad scope of the information, the one that somehow stayed in my mind. (3/)

As you see, I don't use English meticulously and precisely by the rules, I know it, I use it, but secretly I am worst that I think I am. The most important thing is that I understand, and I may or may not loose some or a lot of details in the process. Now to the sensing part. I can't really tell if my experiences are objective, as I previously used to think. I'll add a little bit about who I am here. It used to be a big question in my life. A daughter, a student, a woman, all these (4/)

Seemed to fit me, they were too narrow, except from an understanding that I'm a human being. I think that the only thing that can really define me is the person I ma now, not words, not definitions, but an experience of me. Yesterday I was different, tomorrow I will be. The only constant here is me, but I can't really put that in words, so that's why I don't know who I am. I wouldn't say I make my decisions on previous experiences, but it's nice if I already dealt with that and know (5/)

Where this could be headed. Do I consciously recall my experiences and use them? I don't know. Let's say at this point I'd really like 3 new earholes for new earrings. I think it looks cool, I think it would add a little more visual interest to my ears, and I've experienced small metal shining earrings look better on me than bigg ones. Also I think it looks cool.I can remember the place and the day I got my ears pearced the first time. I can see in my mind clips from that moment (6/)

Would I connect earpiercing with that experience? No, I think I have a stronger connection to the aesthetics and it looking cool than to that place, that experience, the sudden pain of the piercing. There was an example about what do red dress means and why. I thought about that I've seen women wear these dresses for dates. Red menas passion. I never had a red dress, I had blue, but I don't even like dresses. In general dresses mean special occasions in my life, but that's universal (7/7)

----------------------------------

Hi anon,

You actually sound far more intuitive to me. This is all extremely abstract and philosophically-leaning from my perspective - the idea that the self cannot be described, the feeling that a single word like “daughter” must be a thing to encompass the whole of you instead of a simple descriptor that describes an aspect, the connection of an experience to aesthetics instead of vice versa, and so on. From the last ask I felt like you seemed insufficiently focused on the future to have healthy Ni, but the idea that your dreams must come to fruition as envisioned, rather than making a contingency plan (Si/Ne axis) or making the best of the here and now (Se), is far more typical of Ni than any other perceiving function. There’s also a lot here about getting the essence rather than the details, and while it’s important to get both, I have to focus on what you yourself focused on.

I don’t have a strong sense of Te vs. Fe from these, and additionally between the two series of questions there’s a lot of things that seem very much in flux. I think there’s a general strong focus on how you are seen by others, which makes me lean towards Fe, but I’m not confident enough to say.

Enneagram 9 is still absolutely possible. Some 9s don’t realize they are angry, but some do (9w8s in particular) and a lot of this and the previous question seemed to fit the lower end of average health 9s, specifically the following:

“Begin to minimize problems, to appease others and to have ‘peace at any price.’ Stubborn, fatalistic, and resigned, as if nothing could be done to change anything. Into wishful thinking, and magical solutions.”

So, tentatively, high Ni and 9w8, maybe with Fe.

#mbti #enneagram #Anonymous