[ SECRET POST #2420 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2420 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 064 secrets from Secret Submission Post #346.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

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Too Big - Betaing, fanfiction writing

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[Picture is black and green text over a stylized letter "Beta" and the word "BETA" as a logo of sorts, in the color red.]

Old secret green text:

Right now, I'm beta-ing an A/B fic that's really bad. Not only is the grammar and the spelling horrid, but the characters are so fanon it hurts. Character A is made to be a woobie wearing leather pants. (Literally.) Character D who sometimes opposes them in canon is made to be a total Out of Character villain. And character B is randomly obsessed with Character A and develops a whole new personality for absolutely no reason. And it's twenty thousand words long. I wish I could send it back to her, but apparently the author never has any luck with a regular beta -- she always hangs around my fandom's beta forums. And that kind of makes me feel guilty.

New secret black text:

This was my secret. Anyway, I finished beta-ing the fic and I set it back to her. She posted it... and she implemented pretty much none of my suggestions. She didn't even fix the grammar and the formatting. It's pretty ridiculous how disappointed I am, but I worked really hard on beta-ing it. My notes were half as long as the entire fic. Recently she asked me to beta another fic for her, and I really want to say something snippy like how this won't be a productive author-beta relationship because she doesn't listen to me.