Just gonna state my opinion on this post lol! Just my opinion mind you so yeah.
Sometimes, it's difficult for a writer to find a beta. I have a beta, at last, and it's taken me, I kid you not, six years to find one. I am not well known in the community of the MCR fandom. People rarely befriend me. I don't know why this is, it just seems to happen a lot in fandoms. But it's taken me so long to find a beta because any beta I've tried with beforehand just doesn't get it.
By "it" I mean how I write. A lot of the time people comment on my un-speechmarked dialogue. Or the fact I use too many fullstops and betas try to change this. But I've written it that way. It's not a mistake. It's how I write. So unless it's like spelling or whatever, I wouldn't automatically assume that it's a mistake. Maybe it's meant to read that way.
As for the unAmerican thing yeah that does put me off too. I try really hard to make sure that my language is as American as possible. Unless of course it's set elsewhere. Which it never is LOL!
Could I be your beta? I've some of your stuff, it is very different. I'd say, unique? So yeah, I get what you're saying. Not everybody rights the same. Sometimes readers perfer (did I spell that right? I hope so) different styles of writing than others. But yeah, your work-I like it. Did you need some help? Or know anyone who does?
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Sometimes, it's difficult for a writer to find a beta. I have a beta, at last, and it's taken me, I kid you not, six years to find one. I am not well known in the community of the MCR fandom. People rarely befriend me. I don't know why this is, it just seems to happen a lot in fandoms. But it's taken me so long to find a beta because any beta I've tried with beforehand just doesn't get it.
By "it" I mean how I write. A lot of the time people comment on my un-speechmarked dialogue. Or the fact I use too many fullstops and betas try to change this. But I've written it that way. It's not a mistake. It's how I write. So unless it's like spelling or whatever, I wouldn't automatically assume that it's a mistake. Maybe it's meant to read that way.
As for the unAmerican thing yeah that does put me off too. I try really hard to make sure that my language is as American as possible. Unless of course it's set elsewhere. Which it never is LOL!
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Could I be your beta? I've some of your stuff, it is very different. I'd say, unique? So yeah, I get what you're saying. Not everybody rights the same. Sometimes readers perfer (did I spell that right? I hope so) different styles of writing than others. But yeah, your work-I like it. Did you need some help? Or know anyone who does?
You know where to find me, poppy heart.
:)
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