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Question of the day thread number 2!
Carter-Orange:
I've never had a beta reader either. I read it through, post it and hit the preview just to make sure it posts alright, then send.
With the collab I'm doing with Lore, we always send each other the chapters and proof read before posting.
mare:
A long time ago, I used to chat on IM with Kat or Swenglish and send them my stuff as I wrote it. Then a little later on, I would email chapters to Mersey & Maria. For the last few stories I just did it myself. After finishing a chapter, I usually let it sit a day then go back and reread it again before posting. I really should have read it once it was posted but never really did lol stupid formatting issues!!
FrickingKaos:
I never outline my stories unless it was one based on a movie, like Jizzle Of Oz or When I Grow Up were. In those two cases, I did plan it a bit. As for the other stories I've written....I don't plan a whole lot. I don't have a beta but a friend who helps me with dialogue for the AU romance series I write. We spend time in yahoo chat roleplaying a bit. It really helps me. But for non AU ones I usually do everything myself.
Purpura Lipstick:
I had a Beta for Chronos Project because I wanted to make sure the story made sense to someone else before reading it. But I got impatient. It was harder to get online at the same time as my beta so I just started rereading myself and then posting. I know I still probably miss some issues because my brain doesn't see them in my own work sometimes.
I typically don't use a beta because I want the people reading it to be surprised. I don't like to give away my plot ideas or twists before I post, unless it's a friend not involved in the fanfic world or if I'm really stuck on something.
Sakabelle:
My boyfriend used to beta Running Up That Hill for me LOL. I don't really have a beta for any of my other stuff, but as julilly mentioned I'm reading one that's she's writing :) When I did have a beta for my stuff in other fandoms, my beta would either never get back to me, or when he did he changed the story so much to the point that it was unrecognizable from what it had been in the beginning.
For the most part now I'll just post my stuff without anyone else giving it the once over. If I'm really unsure about it I'll ask someone to look at it (and actually, I've been doing that a lot more lately, cause my writing is so far out of my box now) but usually I just post without worrying about it too much.
I guess the logical next question to ask have you ever beta read for anyone else? I find I have a really hard time doing that, because either the story is well written and awesome, so I don't have much in the way of comments, or the story is horrible, and I try my best to be honest about that but there's only so much you can improve in a story that you're really uninterested in reading.
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