[ SECRET POST #5121 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5121 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Sure. But equally, are we going to take OP's assessment of their own beta-ing skills and their friend's writing at absolute face value?

[(Anonymous)]

DA - MTE. There's definitely two sides here.

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NAYRT

Yeah this was my thought too. Quality is subjective and I've had people give plenty of pointless "constructive" criticism (SPAG errors excluded obvs). Even when told "no, that's not the direction I want this story to go in," they insist their way is better instead of helping the story be better in the way it's already going. Some betas don't understand that they're supposed to be helping the author make the best version of what the author wants to make, not the best version in their opinion.

Now, OP may be right and the author's new betas are not even catching basic SPAG errors in favor of gushing praise and obviously that's silly. But if the author likes their own fic better now, and authorial intent is being done more, who's to say who was right? Especially in something as hobbyist as fanfic?

[(Anonymous)]

/shrug Personally, I've encountered more writers who couldn't handle minor concrit even though they'd professed to want it vs. power hungry betas. This is not to say that the latter doesn't exist, just that based on my own experiences, I know which way I'd bet.