Coal Rivalry

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All the things Coal said, running through my head.

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Re: Actual Coal (or, what were they thinking)

[(Anonymous)]

I’ve had various strangers ask me to beta over the years and have learned very well that there’s a certain level of ignorance/lack of skill that you just can’t get anyone out of except by them reading widely and absorbing the rules of good writing and wanting to make theirs like it. You can try to draw their attention to really basic, fundamental errors and they don’t even know what you’re talking about because they don’t know it’s a thing and don’t care. In those situations I make a couple of broad suggestions (usually never taken) and vague encouragement and drop it (I actually just don’t beta for strangers at all anymore because it never works out).