How generous! It's a story that I've given to friends, they gave me good and very enthusiastic input but said it needed to be longer, so I made it longer and by doing so destroyed it, and now I'm trying to undestroy it. (Why not just go back to the original, gripping short tale? Because they're right. The original story would be improved with character development and fleshing out some scenes.)
I revisited Mr. King's On Writing, and it's been huge - huge - in the undestruction efforts. It also led me to this site. So now this whine bring me full circle, sorta.
Anyway, now my concern is that, having given it to all my friends and my own personal Tabby, their familiarity will somewhat taint their critique. Because I know it's not a final draft I'm giving them. It's the beta version. So, yeah, I'm kinda wanting to snag some volunteers, but that is not why I came to this site. I came here because I like Mr. King's writing, mostly, and upon poking and snooping around, this sure seems to be a nice place. In fact, one of the nicest. It's not easy for me to like Internet forums, and this one just seems like a good fit.