: Re: How do I evaluate an unwritten plot/story? I'm working on a full, detailed outline of my planned book series before I have much of it written down. I'm not a pantser, I must have a clear

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If you can find beta readers who are willing to look at an outline and seem competent to evaluate it, then I see nothing wrong with consulting them. There are certain flaws in a novel (e.g., “if the protagonist had half a brain she would do such-and-such in Chapter Three”) that would be detectable at the outline stage and that are hard to paper over with beautiful prose.

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