[ SECRET POST #3441 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3441 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe it's navie of me, but I just assume anytime someone wants to write something they're going to try to make it the best they can.

The artist in me can't imagine trying to promote things I didn't work hard on.

[(Anonymous)]

I used to think that. But to be honest, anyone's who's been a beta for a while has horror stories about authors who react VERY badly to constructive criticism. I certainly do. The sad truth is, there are quite a few people who think they're doing their best already, and they don't expect to be told that there are mistakes in their work. Deep down, they don't believe that there are any ways the work could be improved and that running it past a beta is simply a formality.

So when a beta says something like, "Hey, I love the interaction between X and Y in this scene, but there are a lot of run on sentences", some authors BLOW.THE.FUCK.UP. Because they weren't expecting you to find anything wrong, you see. In their mind, they wrote an awesome story, and you're being a hater. I've been a beta for authors who didn't even bother to run a spellcheck, and it showed. But I promise you, they 100% believed they were doing their best. It's just that their "best" didn't involve basic proofreading.