Wright’s Writing Corner: Beta Readers
A post praising and discussing Beta Readers!
Excerpt:
Writers write. We also read. In particular, we read stuff written by other writers, and we ask them to read our stuff. This is an invaluable process without which the flow of good literature might stop.
Some writers I know do not bother with a Beta Reader. Personally, I do not think I could get by without one.or several. I just seem to take a lot of things for granted when I write. Only when someone else reads it and goes “what the heck did you mean here?”, and I correct it, does my prose take on a quality worth reading by others.
I wish this were not so. I wish I could write on my own and get it right.
But I am so VERY, VERY grateful for those who help me out by reading the mess that is my early versions!
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About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
