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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
The more comments like this I see about the publishing industry, the more I love the fanfiction communities that encourage beta readers.
I've read excerpts of self-published works at Smashwords & a few other places, and I'm often appalled at them--I keep thinking, "you could've run this past *one* other person, who could've caught all those your/you're problems, and told you when you switched tenses every third paragraph, and would've chopped that long chapter into two. Oh, and someone should've told you that the Golden Gate Bridge doesn't connect to Oakland."
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If anything the crowd sourced proofreading and editing of works will become a mainstay in the future. I'm convinced of this, and I'm also becoming convinced that a 'shared' creation of fictional works will come into effect. Many authors and one story. No good for me of course, because I don't play well with others.
