: Re: How do I know what I'm writing is interesting to the reader? I'm starting to wrap up the gestation period of my first book - right now I have a notebook filled with a lot of observations

@Connie138

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Only an outsider can help you. Find someone you can trust to honestly review your work, such as a close friend or relative. Internet critique groups might be helpful.

Be very specific that you want them to read looking for flaws, otherwise they'll just look at the good parts and give you the generic "that's good". Parents are specially prone to this.

After you get one review, get another. And another. 5 or 10 should be a good number. Then look at all those reviews and try to find the parts most of them complained about. Those are the parts you need to worry about fixing right now.

Also, don't oversweat this. When you start to actually write, a lot may change.

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