working on stories...

It's 'this time' of the month, as someone else wrote too, and it means pain killers and hanging around doing very little.

However, I fixed the last(?) things in my 2nd big S/Mc AU edit. At first, the story had 25K words. After the 1st feedback, I deleted some and wrote more than 7K new words, ending at 32K. After the 2nd feedback round (from two different persons), I added a few details and deleted the complete epilogue with 3K words and rewrote it, finishing again at 32K.

Why do I elaborate on that? I think it's the story I reworked the most in the last years, and I think the result is extremely worth it. Often, I feel my first take of a story is good enough to go straight into grammar edit, not really welcoming much fb on the contents. In this story, I realized that it was just not round, missing something, so I gave it to a first reader in a very "unfinished" state - and the fb was extremely helpful. Same with the second fb's. I wonder how some of my other stories would have turned out with that kind of fb.

OTOH, it's very hard to find people who can give that kind of fb, so I feel very lucky right now that I had two of them at hand this time! (It's also helpful writing one of the larger pairings, not having to talk someone into beta'ing one of my strange pairings...)

Gist of it: I seem to be able to accept more constructive, open fb from people. Which is GOOD.