[ SECRET POST #2791 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2791 ⌋

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Comments

[ex_mek82]

I've had an... interesting history with betas.

My first experience was from a fandom yay long ago (that shall remain nameless), and I was a petulant teenager with lots of... issues. Long and short of it is that a really respected-at-the-time writer in this fandom graciously offered to beta my work. I don't know what precipitated everything -I think it was them trying to make sense of the admittedly-in-hindsight asinine plot-, but when all was said and done, I got really torqued and told them off. It was also around the time I was moving on to a newer fandom, but looking back on it, I felt really awful about the whole thing and decided I didn't want to do that to another beta again.

A few years later, a friend offered to beta one of my stories for me, and they ended up helping me with at least 2-3 short, done-in-one stories. They ended up being some of my strongest works, I felt, because not only did my friend help with grammatical/POV fixes, they also helped with placement and dialogue so the characters felt more IC. Needless to say, that was a really great experience and it improved my perception of working with a beta.

I've kinda sorta written some stuff for subsequent fandoms, but I haven't looked for a beta in those, because no one I know is into the fandoms I'm involved in (Old Republic, mostly. I briefly wrote Green Lantern fan fic before I quit that fandom) and I'd rather deal with someone I know who "gets" my writing style so I don't make the same mistake I did in the first example again. =/ But tbh, I don't think betas are a bad thing and can be very helpful and awesome, provided you're working with someone who knows -or has a good idea- of the story you're trying to tell without them trying to change it to suit their vision. Or something like that. Eh.