That bracelet. Those pages.
I have a beta reader/character collaborator who said one of my characters can’t, absolutely CAN NOT, wear bracelets. Which is painful because I want him to wear this one. (That brown behind the guitar is shadow on paper. The guitar has nothing behind it but air.)
But okay, no bracelets.
Also, those pages used to be a 30-page chapter. I considered comments of three beta readers, revised, and now it’s 41 pages. I’m going in the wrong direction. You know who reads 41-page chapters? We live in a world of people who think a 180-character Tweet is too much. Who think an Instagram photo should not have text below it. Who won’t read blog posts, much less novels. Is it too much for the back of a cereal box? Yes? Then, nope!
They will not read 41-page chapters.
Enh. I wrote what I wrote.
ETA in 2022: And yet, I’m also an editor. That 41 page chapter is probably three chapters now. Heh.