but is also unlikely to get you showered with beta requests from complete strangers.
Wouldn't it be great if it did? lol.
This is unrelated but I was thinking recently about how I probably respond much better to concrit on older fics, or at least ones that I have a little bit of distance from (and it doesn't have to be that much). Except for the fact that I can totally take it in the beta process. I guess there's something about the moment after you take a breath and decide to post...or something.
I'm the same except exactly the opposite. That is, I'm not sure I can handle it in the beta process. In fact, I go so far as to really, really not want to get things beta'ed because I don't want to be told anything's wrong with my fic. I work and stress and ache over it so hard that I feel like anyone telling me anything's wrong just wouldn't be understanding what I was trying to do.
The moment I post, that's the moment I give up. It's when I say I'm tired of the stress and ache and I don't really care any more. I mean, I still care, but in a much more objective way than I did before. Posting immediately gives me distance. But the longer it is after I've finished working on it (or on that part, in my WIP) the easier I find it to accept criticism and use it to my advantage.
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Wouldn't it be great if it did? lol.
This is unrelated but I was thinking recently about how I probably respond much better to concrit on older fics, or at least ones that I have a little bit of distance from (and it doesn't have to be that much). Except for the fact that I can totally take it in the beta process. I guess there's something about the moment after you take a breath and decide to post...or something.
I'm the same except exactly the opposite. That is, I'm not sure I can handle it in the beta process. In fact, I go so far as to really, really not want to get things beta'ed because I don't want to be told anything's wrong with my fic. I work and stress and ache over it so hard that I feel like anyone telling me anything's wrong just wouldn't be understanding what I was trying to do.
The moment I post, that's the moment I give up. It's when I say I'm tired of the stress and ache and I don't really care any more. I mean, I still care, but in a much more objective way than I did before. Posting immediately gives me distance. But the longer it is after I've finished working on it (or on that part, in my WIP) the easier I find it to accept criticism and use it to my advantage.