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I actually adore my current editor. She ignores my whining and is merciless about what needs to be done, but she's also encouraging at the same time. It's a fine line, and I honestly have to credit her with making my story stronger and better in so many ways. I'm trying to incorporate what she's teaching me into my current WIPs. Let's see if I can do it, and then we can move to the next level of editorial interventions.

I work without a beta, for a variety of reasons. I'm pretty good at the grammar and technical stuff already, and I'm fairly diligent at proofreading what I post before I post it. However, my preferred fandoms are obscure enough not to attract a great many potential beta-readers. My original works are either prompt responses here, which are short and sweet to proofread, or they will go out for submission to a publisher, in which case an editor will abuse me until I make it right. I've just never made the right connection as an author with a beta, although I have acted as a beta myself.

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I would suggest, if you want a good beta, to find someone whose writing you do like, someone whose work you enjoy. Try and establish a connection, either via reviews and replies, or even a forum PM or email. Get to know them a bit. There's a lot more to a good beta than just skill. Personalities have to match to a degree as well. You also need to decide what it is you want from a beta. Is it someone who will give you solely grammar and technical assistance, or do you want someone who will be honest and tell you when something isn't working for them? If you write original work, you don't need to worry so much about whether or not they know your fandom, but do they grasp your world? Does your setting make sense for them? If you write fantasy and your beta is not a fan of fantasy settings, you already have an issue since they can't get immersed in your world. Then there's the dreaded real life issues. If your beta has a family or is in school and is subject to papers and finals, real life is going to intervene from time to time. Nothing is more irritating than waiting for your work to return, but on the other hand, it's equally annoying to feel like your real life is supposed to take second place to the free services you offer as a beta. This is also where having a good rapport comes into play. It's not so terribly dire. You can find decent beta readers, but it does take more than leaving a post on a thread. Like anything else worth having, you need to work at it a bit. Just don't give up.

The whole thing seems dubious at best, and rife for abuse. Right off the bat, if Amazon isn't going to do a thing about stolen works, then they should not be providing a venue for these works. They seems to be declining any and all responsibility in return for money they really are doing nothing to earn.

The Edit Chapter option lets you open an individual chapter of the story so you can edit it. You can pick which chapter to edit from the dropdown menu over the text box, and once you select a chapter, it opens in the text box. Then you can edit it, and when you're done, click the button at the bottom that says "edit chapter" and it will save your changes to the archive.

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Glad that you were able to find an answer!

waddict! You have no idea how much this made my day. After three days of jury duty, and then finally getting sent home to find out that my computer was stone dead, rushing out to buy a new one, and staying up too late to try and get myself to a state of functionality on the new computer, this was exactly what I needed this morning. One of your wonderful reviews. I'm glad you're enjoying this and honestly, I never got the need to fight the lizardmen all the damned time, either. West Harbor coexisted all this time with the clans, and there was no reason for anyone to barrel in there and be aggressive, in my opinion. I'm glad that worked! And yes, Tae has a temper, and Sand lives up to his name sometimes. Going by game canon, she should be about 18 when she reaches Neverwinter, but she's still vastly younger than Sand, and he loves to play games. It's inevitable that they will butt heads, since anyone that can survive being raised by Daeghun is not a doormat and Sand is used to Duncan, who's like shooting fish in a barrel. Tae is attracted to Sand, but that doesn't mean she'll take shit. And Agent Smith meets Elrond, I know! I really would love to have been sharing a Thermos with the artist who did Sand.

For me, as a reader and as a writer, anthro needs a lot more non-human characteristics than what you described. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are anthro. Your character and weres are not.

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Ah, yes. Like the disclaimer FFN adds on that website's guidelines that MA is mentioned although not permitted simply to illustrate what is not allowed in M rated fiction. I can bet almost no one actually read that part. By then, you just want to click that you agree and post your story already. There are things there rated M that are well beyond that rating, and contain enough graphic sex, unusual; fetishes, and gratuitous violence to require nearly every tag we have. They're not in prominent fandoms, however, which means they may never get caught and purged. The hypocrisy astounds me.

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