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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-04-30 07:04 pm

[ SECRET POST #2675 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2675 ⌋

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Re: Beta reader/author horror stories

(Anonymous) 2014-05-01 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
I was writing my first story for a fandom with a pretty extensive canon and asked for a beta on a comm. Someone (I can't say if they were a BNF, but I guess they were at least a Medium Name) offered.

I told them to be brutal (and gave several detailed assurances that this was indeed what I wanted): They gave me ... ONE very minor piece of feedback, on one word choice in one sentence. That was it. I mean, I consider myself reasonably competent, but as I'm definitely not a "first draft" writer, there was no way that they had found only ONE rough spot in a 8K word plotty story involving canon characters and locations. I wound up setting the fic aside for a few days until I could spot the errors myself (and there plenty), and never asked them to beta for me again.

Re: Beta reader/author horror stories

(Anonymous) 2014-05-01 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds like it was such a mess they didn't want to work on it, and didn't know how to tell you.

Re: Beta reader/author horror stories

(Anonymous) 2014-05-01 08:47 am (UTC)(link)
DA, that's not very nice anon. Why agree to be someone's beta reader then?