Writerly Confessions : comments.
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I struggle with this too. On the one hand, fandom has a history of dogpiling (I hate that word, but it's what fits) people who speak out or say something negative, but on the other I would love if somebody was bothered by something I wrote, or had a suggestion on how I could do it better to just drop me a line and say "You know Zip... maybe you could have tried this..." (I won't deny that the few times it's happened that I haven't had a knee-jerk reaction, but once I got over myself I was grateful they took the time to point things out and I've learned from each suggestion.)
Honest beta's are worth double their weight in gold. :)
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I credit any ounce of talent I have to God and my first beta/online friend. I was 14 and she was 19 and we were on an AOL e-mail list. I wrote this terrible fic and she told me she enjoyed it and we hit it off. We would read for each other and nitpick and debate...
*sigh*
We're still friends but she no longer writes fic and we aren't free youngsters with all the time in the world. I have a shortlist of people I'll PM to read something I've written, but I don't *know* them and they don't really know me and I don't get the depth I'm looking for often times. About 80% of the time I don't even bother and I just throw the story up with nothing more than my own rabid perfectionism having torn through it.
It's also hard because I don't know if what I've written is worth reading. I also have a shortlist of people from which I pine for reviews. I figure if they enjoyed the story it can't totally suck.