WIP Challenge - Check In Day 11 - Thursday

[the_rck]

Poll #16756

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Yesterday and today I

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planned
1 (16.7%)

researched
0 (0.0%)

wrote
4 (66.7%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

edited
0 (0.0%)

posted
1 (16.7%)

rested
1 (16.7%)

did something else
0 (0.0%)

The way I feel about that is

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Mean: 5.50 Median: 5.5 Std. Dev 0.96

Terrible 1		0 (0.0%)
2		0 (0.0%)
3		0 (0.0%)
4		1 (16.7%)
5		2 (33.3%)
6		2 (33.3%)
7		1 (16.7%)
8		0 (0.0%)
9		0 (0.0%)
Wonderful 10		0 (0.0%)

Do you normally use a beta reader? Is it always the same person? What if you switch fandoms?

I try to use a beta reader all of the time, but the fact that I write so many different fandoms kind of works against me. I've got some people I can work with for Weiss Kreuz stories, and I have a couple of people who're happy to look over my Narnia stories. Other fandoms, though... It's hard. I'm not generally sufficiently involved in the big fandoms to know where to start looking (and often I'm writing something to be posted anonymously, so my looking has to be done very cautiously), and small fandoms... Well. At least for small fandoms, I can go back and check the Yuletide beta offers. Sometimes I get lucky that way.

(All of this brought to you by my realization that I need a second opinion on my remix and have no idea who to ask.)

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[samuraiter]

I will use a beta if a challenge requires it, and I normally ask Mrs. Samu for her opinion in that capacity, but, otherwise, I prefer to self-edit. (Sort of a useful skill to have if you are a fandom of one.)

[linaewen]

I used to use a beta regularly, but she became slower and less and less familiar with where I was going with the story, so I just ended up doing it myself. I might run something past a friend or two if I am really befuddled about something, but I have great confidence in my own self-editing, so that's my standard way of doing things these days.