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*
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From: [identity profile] kittydesade.livejournal.com


Obsessive is good. I don't do it myself for everything I write or even post, but everything I'm going to submit professionally? Yeah.

Which is why I never submit, 'cause it's never right. But.

From: [identity profile] digital-opium.livejournal.com


Pish. Submit it, dammit. That's why they have editors. Except, you know, good ones. That's why I'm on a mission to rid the world of bad editing.

*dragon snort*

From: [identity profile] kittydesade.livejournal.com


Hee. I'm working on it, slowly but surely. Hopefully the first query letter will go out tomorrow, then the manuscripts to the publishers that want entire manuscripts starting in a couple weeks.

I am so very neurotic by now.
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