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[turps]

I was just reading through Boxes at my site as digital_diva pointed out typos at the same time. The problem is there shouldn't be any. I had it beta read by a few different people which suggests it's me who screwed up. My question is, how do you use a beta reading? For example, I read from the beta read file and change it on my original one. Obviously that's not fool proof or there wouldn't be any typos at all. So how do you do it? Learn me so I don't make embarrassing mistakes again.

Also, do you ever read something and know it could be more? I still love Boxes but think it could be better. It could be made richer I guess. So does anyone want to teach me how to work on a really long story and stop being so impatient? It's what I want to do next, write something long and detailed. Spin out a story that captures the interest and keeps it.

So yeah, I know I can't really be taught patience, that has to come on its own but I'd love to know about how you approach beta reading.

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Thanks for sharing that.

Especially sending a story out one person at a time. That makes so much sense and I can't believe I didn't think of it before.

Discussing stories with a RL friend sounds so cool. The closest I got to doing that was doing a beta over AIM which was a really good thing to do.

Again, thanks for answering.