Fiction writers: if you don’t yet have an editor, who do you turn to (and how) for thought partnership on trouble spots in your story?

@m_older @gaileyfrey @eliotpeper @doctorow @itsDanielSuarez @AngeliqueJamail @MadelineAshby &others…

Returning to this thread as I've got another short story (about loss and coping and new abuses of AI) (oh and a much more standard format than that last crazy thing, @m_older) if anyone had spare cycles for a beta read.