Sentences with phrase «beta readers do»

Six or eight beta readers do a better job, in my opinion, than most editors.

Knowing what beta readers don't do helps you get a better feeling for what they do.

Honestly, you've just proven my point that most people don't understand what beta readers do.

Beta readers do not have to be your best friends.

Many beta readers don't have the experience or literary consciousness to pinpoint specific issues with a novel; their feedback will be vague and frustrating, as they sense problems are there but can't really identify them.

Sometimes, however, beta readers don't quite live up to your expectations.

When your beta readers do give you feedback, thank them!

Some say beta readers do look for things like grammar, punctuation, flow, etc..

But for now beta readers do what they do for little or no money.

That's what Beta readers do — fix things before they go to press.

Have another one do more substantive editing with the story and finally have another beta reader do a complete final read of the manuscript.

Have one beta reader do only copy edits.

The ethical beta reader does not use the author's other books as a platform to review and attack a different book or the author.

My five other beta readers didn't agree with her so I realized I can't please everyone and five likes to one dislike were pretty good odds.

by Jami Gold: In this post, Jami goes into detail what a beta reader does and some ways we can find them, including offering ourselves as beta readers.

But one of my beta readers did.

Basically they do what the beta readers did in the prior chapters, and maybe even hold your hand through the first revision.

Not exact matches

You don't want to be paying thousands of dollars for a job any beta - reader could do.

As I mentioned in my How Do We Find Beta Readers post (that I also linked to above), we can sometimes model for others the type of feedback we'd like to receive and hope that «teaches» them that, yes, there is a way to give constructive criticism and still be «nice.»

I'll link to it in my post this Sunday on why you shouldn't use agents or customer reviewers as your beta readers, as some misguided newbies do.

When we «break up» with a beta reader, we should do it in a «it's not you, it's me» way — because there's absolutely no reason to attack a beta reader for trying to be helpful.

If the author wants to spend less on editing because they have such a good group of beta readers, they can do that.

You can't help someone who doesn't want to be helped, but some people know less than they think they do (writers and beta readers alike).

While beta readers are not editors — they likely won't have the training, years of study, practice, or the inclination to snuggle up with The Chicago Manual of Style, just for fun — we do think that they can be helpful additions to your publishing team.

When we first start out, we don't know what we're doing — as an author or as a beta reader.

«[J] ust because you used a beta reader once does not mean that you have to keep using them.

It won't do any good to track down beta readers if we're going to ignore everything they say or if we're going to get upset that they didn't love our work as is.

I had a title in mind but it doesn't portray the right message so I asked one of my beta readers and she helped me.

Do you know enough about your weaknesses to find beta readers or critique partners with that strength?

You can also reconnect with those beta readers when you do launch to help you spread the word.

By way of example, I ask beta readers to highlight any sentence or section that doesn't make sense, or that they have to reread.

You don't necessarily want a beta reader who has particular writing or editing skills.

One of the best things we can do to find beta readers for our work (at least among our network of author friends) is to offer to beta read for others.

Authors don't usually pay beta readers, so any interaction needs to be positive and affirming.

Once you've done the best you can with your novel, with the help of feedback from fellow workshop members or from beta readers, it's time to get an editor and cover designer involved.

For anyone who sees this, and needs beta readers avoid folks who want to pay, and submit chapters one at a time, and then interview them, immediately after (it would be best if you did it the second they finished the page).

But before I did that, I had experience interpreting beta reader feedback.

There's also a danger in seeking beta readers, though: What if a beta suffers from Overconfidence Effect in an aspect of writing that you don't know much about?

Personally, my books don't go through the copyedit stage before I submit it to beta readers, but I do my absolute best to to make it the best it can be before I run it past other sets of eyes.

I don't have any novels ready for beta readers, but my critique groups have been so helpful to me with my short stories, I honestly don't know how I lived without them previously.

And while one should not expect their beta - reader to be cozy with Chicago Manual of Style, this is because that sort of edit should already be done by the time it gets to the hands of a beta - reader.

Now, chances are that if your Beta - Reader does charge a fee, it will be a minimal fee compared to that of a developmental editor, sometimes a barter or trade like a gift card to a coffee shop or a bookstore will suffice, especially among friends.

The Bad: I just got back the book from my Beta readers, and I do need to make some changes.

-LSB-...] how do you find a critique group and / or beta readers?

If you're prone to writing too concise or dropping transitions, I think it's actually better to have at least one beta reader outside your own demographic and ideally unfamiliar with your genre (though you don't want someone who'll be bored or something).

If you have several beta readers, as well as giving them plenty of time to read your novel — they're probably doing it for free — you'll want to allow time for asking them questions and perhaps even redrafting bits of material for them to look over again.

But she also doesn't want authors to think that having anyone as a beta reader or critique partner is good enough.

That was exactly my point in the post I did with the tips for being a better beta reader, so I completely agree that beta readers should always give a reason why.

It won't do any good to track down beta readers if we're going to ignore everything -LSB-...]

We also recommend that you find a beta reader who knows more about writing craft than you do.