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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2016-01-16 03:22 pm

[ SECRET POST #3300 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3300 ⌋

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Re: How did you find your beta?

(Anonymous) 2016-01-16 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, there are a few reasons why. It's not always a good idea to ask your friends to beta just because they're your friends. The potential for ugly disagreements to ruin a friendship will make people a lot more cautious, for starters. Plus "friendship" isn't a necessary quality in a good beta, they're two different things.

Secondly, a lot of writers will swear they're cool with honesty and just want their betas to be blunt about problems... and then they'll lose their shit if they get any real criticism. It's hard to know who will do that and who won't until they lose their shit. This makes most betas (especially the honest ones) really wary.