Some writers give beta readers chapters to work with all along. I save them for when I think it's ready-- and they find things to show me it wasn't.
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Walking into
the restored building, converted into a small theater and meeting rooms, Elke was glad to see saw David Jefferies, Pamela Crosby, and two women she didn’t
recognize on the stage and, sitting at a table. “You’re late,” he said as he rose
and gave her a hug.
“I’m sorry.
Torre and I got involved in planning the changes we want to make in Mellow
Yellow, and I lost track of time.”
“Nothing
major I hope,” Pam Crosby said dusting Elke’s cheek with a brushed kiss before
sitting back down. “I love your choices as they are.”
“Elke, our actresses new to you, Debbie Johnson and Colette Ames, are interested in Stage
Left. Chuck was supposed to be here tonight. Not sure what happened to that.” Debbie,
pretty, blonde and bubbly, was the age to play ingénues while Colette looked a
little older than Elke.
“Chuck?”
“Charles
Carter. He’s been a leading man in some of the other theaters around here. I
had hoped to interest him in small our little theater.”
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Elke is interested in getting a play produced there to give magic workers better publicity. Her desire to improve the reputation of natural witches leads her into her adventure in 'To Speak of Things Unseen.' There is one sentence there I am still uneasy about but will leave it for a second go-round to see if it still draws me out of the action. If it does, it might disappear totally or get reworked.
