The Evolution of the Writer-Beta Relationship

[gnomi]

Early interactions:
Beta: I think it might work better if you rearrange this and do this and change this. What do you think?

Later interactions:
Beta: Change this. You know I'm right.

Comments

[emrinalexander.livejournal.com]

My beta used to just send things back red-lined with "lose it!" next to the offending sentences.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I've done that!

[elrhiarhodan]

Yes, exactly!

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

It's comforting to know it's not just me. :-)

[beadattitude.livejournal.com]

::raises eyebrows::

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

(yeah, you've probably seen this post in three different fora today; sorry about that. I forget I have a couple of overlaps in all three places.)

I'm working with a writer on a new story. She and I have worked together on, I think, three stories at this point, and I'm now at the no-longer-wording-things-so-politely stage in our relationship. It's what prompted me to post this today, and then I realized I knew people on FB, Tumblr, and LJ who have all had the same experience. Thus the spammage.

[tapuz.livejournal.com]

...which is why this person is that person's Beta! :-)