[ SECRET POST #2675 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2675 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 033 secrets from Secret Submission Post #382.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

Re: Beta reader/author horror stories

[(Anonymous)]

I was a beta for a... I guess she was a friend? Not super close, but we were on friendly terms, or so I thought. She asked me to read a short fic of hers and I wrote back a long list of things I liked about it with details and mentioned ONE tiny thing that she might want to fix. It was a factual error, not a writing error, and it was really, really minor.

We chatted and then the conversation ended. She faded out of that fandom and I only spoke to her every once in a while, but I didn't think anything of it because that happens. Several YEARS later, she brings it up and berates me for being such an evil bitch about her fic and how awful I was about it and that's why she decided we couldn't be friends and she'd never associate with me again, etc. etc.

I was FLOORED. Went back, reread the e-mail exchange and I swear to god that the only piece of actual "criticism" I gave that fic was something like "Oh, and Chattanooga isn't in Kentucky, you mean Tennessee." That was buried in a paragraph of positive feedback.

I apologized for being such a Beta Nazi (WTF?) and decided to never communicate with her again.

Re: Beta reader/author horror stories

[dreemyweird]

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well. I think you made the right decision here. That's not even a lack of confidence in writing, that's a psychological problem of an epic size.