[ SECRET POST #2664 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2664 ⌋

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Comments

Re: How do you react to mistakes in fic?

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I notice them. They won't drive me out of a fic unless they are extremely frequent. Say... if you have an error or two in every sentence. Also, walls of text will kill my interest dead.

On the subject of beta'ing, I know from some of my past experiences beta'ing (and I only beta grammar and spelling) that I may change around a few words if a particular turn of phrase is something I cannot understand. If she is changing whole paragraphs o you... I don't know, she may be going outside the bounds of strictly gammar-&-spelling correction.

Re: How do you react to mistakes in fic?

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you! I should talk to her about limiting her beta superpowers. She likes to create longer sentences from my short ones. Or there was that one fic which sounded very victorian era after beta.

Re: How do you react to mistakes in fic?

[(Anonymous)]

Yes! Do!

When I beta, I try to keep as close to the original author's style as possible. Correcting spelling, grammar, and awkward word usage. I want my "work" be invisible, because the readers aren't there to read MY fic. They're there to read yours.

Others, well... They try and turn it into the story they would like to write, if they could. I've seen that ruin many a good writer's style.

Don't be afraid to speak up, or reject anything that you really don't like. :)

Re: How do you react to mistakes in fic?

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you! Will do. ^^