Getting it to this stage has been an interesting process, including plenty of marked-up changes on two full prints plus a further read through on a Kindle that was really helpful for picking things up I'd missed. The net result is only a couple of hundred words longer but a lot more readable and coherent.
The process also threw up sufficient notes and queries to create a second novel, I think (possibly a third but I'm allergic to trilogies).
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I've had a vague notion for a Star Wars story floating around for a while and, on a whim, I downloaded three of the best reviewed of the existing novels to get an idea for structure, tone, quality etc. I'm not impressed; I mean, I wasn't expecting Pynchon but I was surprised by how functional and basic the first has been so far. It's straight surface narrative with no depth, each (short) chapter a scene, and by a writer from whom I expected better. It reads like the novelisation of an outline of a rejected screenplay.
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