[ SECRET POST #4517 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4517 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Frustrating beta

[(Anonymous)]

I think your beta's the one that doesn't fit, and you should stop forcing it.

A good beta will respect the story that the writer wants to tell, and help the writer get it to be the best story that it can be. It sounds like your current beta is trying to make your stories over into the kind of thing that she wants to read.

You're not trying to rewrite a story to the specifications of an editor who is actually going to give you money to do so. You are writing for fun, and if she wants you to take all the stuff that makes it fun for you out, it's time to part ways.

Tl; dr: you are not a bad author for wanting to leave your beta. You beta is a bad beta. At the very least, she's a bad beta for you, but if she's trying to get you to basically write fic to her specifications, and guilt and manipulate you when you disagree, I'm going to come out and make the statement that she's a bad beta, period.