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Originally Posted by DavidRM
My opinion of the "page 99 test" has dropped with just one comment:
"There were a lot of characters to keep track of on this one page..."
If you wanted to meet the characters, maybe you should start from the beginning. 
I would guess, for most novels, page 99 is quite "en media res".
Ah, well.
-David |
yeh, so far I've had a long schpeil about my grammar - something the professional proof reader I hired missed, clearly (bugger, well, I've changed it for future editions). The other one picked up on a mention of the main character's relationship with his father which they thought was boring (unfortunately it's a fairly essential few lines).
I was reading other people's stuff thinking "this is from the middle of a novel, it may not make sense". Like yours, people seem to be reading mine thinking "why hasn't anyone explained who these people are?" Leaving me thinking "er... I did in the preceding 99 pages".
Cheers
MTM