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[donutsweeper]

I will never understand why people put in the effort to write long, wonderfully plotted, interesting stories yet can't bother to spend 5 minutes running it through a spell checker before posting it.

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[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I almost never use a beta for my drabbles or short ficlets, but I trust my flist to poke me if they spot something that needs fixing.

[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

I only started using a beta for Torchwood Big Bang last year, but that was habit as much as anything else - the betas in Trek fandom (where I first started writing) were harsh in a not-good way and I wouldn't have been able to cope with that so I always made sure I spell checked things pretty thoroughly myself.

Now I have a kind of 'official' beta and we bounce stuff around between us all the time when we're writing and we know each other well enough to be critical if required - funnily enough she's one of my LJ flist.

Still can't get my head around the no spell checking thing.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's the best kind of beta!