Entry on betas

[ximeria]

Nicci and I are talking about betas, how frustrated the SG fandom used to make me. I got into fanfic writing a few years before I got into SG and I was used to having a beta who would pick anything apart and bloody well make me write it better XD

What's your favorite beta moment/memory? How do you prefer to have your stuff beta'ed? I for one enjoy having it taken apart and handed back like a chinese puzzle with the note of -- it's a good idea, just needs work...

Comments

[nicci-mac.livejournal.com]

I had a lot of different people that beta'd for me in SG. In The Sentinel, I used Senbeta's which was beta by committee! Man than was hard. Every one had a different opinion. In Due south, I have a couple of people I like to use for all sorts of different reasons.

In recent memory, it was the reaction of my beta when I deleted several pages of fic based on her comments and took it off on a different direction. I couldn't see her face, but I imagine it looked like this o.O

I like a beta to tell me what works, what doesnt work, where the strengths are and the weakness. I like a really in depth beta. The more comments the better

[sazandra.livejournal.com]

I experienced the beta by committee thing with the original Another You, Another Me. It took me so long to write that various unfortunates got to pick it to pieces. In the long run it worked because my writing needed help and I had things that worked in my head didn't make much sense to anybody else.

I know the last couple of parts of AYAM haven't been betaed, I've asked if anybody's interested and got no response so I've just gone with what I've got, just making sure I got over it as much as I can and with way more experience than eight years ago.

[ximeria.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it can be hard even finding a beta -- and it's even harder finding someone who's actually capable of doing a real beta.

[ximeria.livejournal.com]

Hehehe -- yeah, she does do O.o when you do that but she respects the effort very much. I don't think I could do the senbetas thing -- I think I'd get too annoyed with the lot XD