Memes: interests and betas
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clare_dragonfly13. Do you have any unique interests on your user profile? What are they? How'd they get there?
I have a lot of unique interests, actually. I have no idea why Addergoole is unique. There ought to be at least one other person on DW with that interest! You should check it out if you like faeries and/or creepy things. Aliette de Bodard is a French fantasy author. I am really crazy about her short fiction, and I also enjoyed her first novel, Servant of the Underworld. I recommend it if you like mysteries, dark fantasy, and/or the Aztecs. An Intimate History of the Greater Kingdom and MeiLin Miranda are two of my other unique interests and they are connected, in that MeiLin writes the aforementioned series, which is hard to describe but you should check if out if you like fantasy and/or erotica. Chatoyant College is my own online serial fantasy novel. Self-promotion makes me too anxious to tell you whether you should check it out. And finally, online serial novels are what Addergoole, the History, and Chatoyant College are, free stories online updated a chapter (or other small amount) at a time. I suppose I don't really need that one to be there since I also have web fiction, webfiction, weblit, and webnovels, all of which are shared interests.
Do you use beta reader(s)? If so, what do you look for in a beta reader? What specialties would your ideal beta have?
I absolutely use beta readers. I tend to post short stuff on my DW, either publicly, access-locked or locked to a specific access group aptly named "beta group." Then I hope for comments. I want my beta readers to, um, notice things? Especially typos. I hate typos and must destroy them all. And ideally they would like my writing but not too much to tell me what's wrong with it in a way that will help me figure out how to fix it.
I have a lot of unique interests, actually. I have no idea why Addergoole is unique. There ought to be at least one other person on DW with that interest! You should check it out if you like faeries and/or creepy things. Aliette de Bodard is a French fantasy author. I am really crazy about her short fiction, and I also enjoyed her first novel, Servant of the Underworld. I recommend it if you like mysteries, dark fantasy, and/or the Aztecs. An Intimate History of the Greater Kingdom and MeiLin Miranda are two of my other unique interests and they are connected, in that MeiLin writes the aforementioned series, which is hard to describe but you should check if out if you like fantasy and/or erotica. Chatoyant College is my own online serial fantasy novel. Self-promotion makes me too anxious to tell you whether you should check it out. And finally, online serial novels are what Addergoole, the History, and Chatoyant College are, free stories online updated a chapter (or other small amount) at a time. I suppose I don't really need that one to be there since I also have web fiction, webfiction, weblit, and webnovels, all of which are shared interests.
Do you use beta reader(s)? If so, what do you look for in a beta reader? What specialties would your ideal beta have?
I absolutely use beta readers. I tend to post short stuff on my DW, either publicly, access-locked or locked to a specific access group aptly named "beta group." Then I hope for comments. I want my beta readers to, um, notice things? Especially typos. I hate typos and must destroy them all. And ideally they would like my writing but not too much to tell me what's wrong with it in a way that will help me figure out how to fix it.