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Does anyone actually realize that beta reading actually involves ... wait for it... READING?
Yet another fic where the author thanks so and so for being their *airquotes* beta reader, and within two paragraphs I notice three or four errors.
Dude. Running something through word (or the equivalent) spell and grammar check doesn't count as beta reading. The author should be able to do that much.
Let's not even get into continuity and form.
*mutter mutter grumble*
Kids these days. A good walk five miles to a beta reader in a howling blizzard up-hill both ways would teach them a thing or two.
*grumble mutter mutter*
ETA: It's 'would have', people, not 'would of'. *mutter grumble mutter*
Yet another fic where the author thanks so and so for being their *airquotes* beta reader, and within two paragraphs I notice three or four errors.
Dude. Running something through word (or the equivalent) spell and grammar check doesn't count as beta reading. The author should be able to do that much.
Let's not even get into continuity and form.
*mutter mutter grumble*
Kids these days. A good walk five miles to a beta reader in a howling blizzard up-hill both ways would teach them a thing or two.
*grumble mutter mutter*
ETA: It's 'would have', people, not 'would of'. *mutter grumble mutter*
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Won't someone think of the fiction?!?
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It's shit like that that makes me think I can get published. Especially when I start seeing it in published fiction.
Okay, maybe not that bad, but really.
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Argh.
Do I do things like this? Yes. Do I check, double check, have someone beta read and then check it again?
Yes.
'Course, I could be a little bit obsessive. Heh.
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Which is why I never submit, 'cause it's never right. But.
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*dragon snort*
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I am so very neurotic by now.
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*excited for you*
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*hugs*
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*hides*
*late*
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Well, they are if you really know editors...