Tag: #betareaders

• Beta Readers Beginnings

  Sometimes it takes another person to tell you that your story… is simply wonderful. Sometimes it takes another person to tell you that your story… is bloody awful. But what is it that a Beta Reader does, how do they do it, and what really is the difference between them and the host of other…

  E. J. Dawson

  October 17, 2020

  On Writing

  #amwriting, #betareaders, #betareading, #writers, #Writerscafe, #Writerslife, #writingcommunity

• Blunders found Beta Reading

  I’ve been doing a lot of beta reading lately, and thought I’d do a quick five minute post on some easy solutions for frequent problems I’ve been running into in my reading;   Repetition Tell not show Character reactions Action sequences   Of all the things I pull people up on these are the ones…

  E. J. Dawson

  July 20, 2019

  Uncategorized

  #betareaders, #betareading, #creativity, #writers, #writingcommunity, #writingtips, writerslife, writing

• The Big Bad Betareader

      It’s scary, I get it. You’re asking someone who is potentially a stranger to put their grubby paws all over your creation. To dirty it’s walls with comments on the plot. Smear mud on character development. Wee on info dumps. Put a massive turd in that unforeseen plot hole. And the way you…

  E. J. Dawson

  March 28, 2019

  Uncategorized

  #authors, #betareaders, #betareading, #books, #novel, #support, #writingcommunity, #writingtips, amwriting, writing