This article says it all–and quite succinctly. I’ve greatly enjoyed being a beta reader. And I have no problem volunteering for new authors willing to share their manuscripts. I hope that I’ve contributed to their work, and helped them along to completion and publication. The two-way street here is that it always teaches me something as well. Read on!
I mean it so much, that I’m going to be redundant: I love beta readers!
Wow. My three beta readers have completely IMPRESSED me!
I write so people find enjoyment in what I’ve written. I write to share ideas and thoughts with others. I write because it’s fun. Well, it is fun, until I find myself in an endless sea of a single task. Here is how my novel has gone so far.
- I’m so frustrated with my OUTLINE. I wish I could just figure out the climax.
- I have so much more to do on my FIRST DRAFT, when will I be finished?
- REVISING is so tedious. How did I write this piece of crap anyway?
- Who truly knows how to EDIT? Grammar? I must have slept through that class.
- But BETA READERS? I LOVE THEM! I LOVE THIS PROCESS!!!! I’M IN NO HURRY TO FINISH THIS STEP (for once). BETA READERS…
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As in computer games and programs that start out as a test and run through a period of users looking for problems, beta readers read a new manuscript. Some read for continuity, grammar, typos, or other edit mistakes. Depends on the beta reader whether they read for all, or specifically–like grammar. The goal is to produce a publication ready novel. I have authors for whom I work that service.
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Don’t want to sound dumb. But what is a beta reader???? I know what an E-reader is…..
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