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Fanfic cliches
Teri:
Yeah that's the general idea of a beta reader. Like with Mel we bounce ideas off each other for our stories, email excerpts of chapters to see if they aren't too cheesed out or if they make sense, etc. I think the most important part is that there's another set of eyes looking at your work preposting that can help make it better.
MellzBellz:
Yea I'm late here, but just going over what I missed while on vacation. I dunno if you consider what I do betaing but I usually like to have one or two people that I can send parts of my story that I want a second look at or to hear out my ideas. It's sort of a fine line cuz basically my two "betas" (Teri and Tri) are fans of UMS, so I guess you can say they might be a little bit biased, but I think it helps cuz they are involved in the story and they know the plot and the characters pretty well, wheras w/ a non-reader I'd have to explain a lot for the to really "get" it. Not every fan can be a good beta though. I like Tri and Teri cuz I can trust them to be brutally honest w/me and likewise I'm the same with their stories. If they have an idea that I'm not fond of I'll tell them right out. (Teri will tell you jusy how much crap I gave her about her threesome scene, but that's another story lol) It's nice though cuz if i have an incomplete idea half the time one of them can help me complete it and vice versa. I couldn't have written UMS w/out my betas!
Teri:
hehe yay! LOL about the threesome thing, yeah In AIL I wrote a threesome thing that comes back to bite nick and ali in the butt in SWIB (i think that's the redeeming quality of it) but I knew not everyone would like it and I accept that but at the time I was writing it completely fit into the story and will make even more sense as the second sequel progresses
MellzBellz:
--- Quote from: Teri on August 10, 2007, 02:52:35 PM ---hehe yay! LOL about the threesome thing, yeah In AIL I wrote a threesome thing that comes back to bite nick and ali in the butt in SWIB (i think that's the redeeming quality of it) but I knew not everyone would like it and I accept that but at the time I was writing it completely fit into the story and will make even more sense as the second sequel progresses
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And whoose idea was it to have it come back and bite them in the asses? LOL j/k
Teri:
you gave me the idea, i figured it needed more literary value, though it was fun to write.
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