Sending Your Novel To Beta Readers As Shown In Gifs

Can you tell from my stint of posts about editing that I'm back into it? Now that Crash and Burn is officially out, I've started work on a duology that I wrote a bit ago about a thief named Jack. It's going to need a lot of work...

But anyway, enough about me, let's talk about beta reading! Or complain about it. Or laugh about it. Or whatever.

Things You'll Only Get If You've Sent Your Novel To Beta Readers (written in chronological order, for your convenience and amusement)

The terror of the sending.

Thinking of three more questions right after you've sent it.

The waiting.

Complete with a lot of anxiety.

Any or no feedback you might get while they're still reading. (Is it better to get feedback, or better to suffer through the silence?)

Finally receiving the feedback email.

Putting off reading said email.

*agressively does literally anything that is not spelled 'reading the email'*

Finally opening the email.

(I don't have a gif for this as this step requires covering the eyes with both hands, clicking with the elbows since the hands are busy, while screaming)


They didn't like [some random aspect of your story]??

Desire to kill the beta reader.

Desire to burn the manuscript.

Finally, you got to the compliments. (Phew, crisis averted)

Thank you, thank you. All in a day's work.

Suddenly realizing how much work this has made for you now.

This is me trying to make a list of things that now need to be done.

Back to editing.

And that's it! See you on Thursday for another post!

Have you ever sent your writing off to beta readers? Is editing as hard for you as it is for me? Tell me in the comments!