{"id":218,"date":"2012-07-30T07:00:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2012-07-29T18:57:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T23:57:27","slug":"bookmark-monday-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"Bookmark Monday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two articles today. The first one offers some helpful tips for BETA readers while the second discusses the difficulties of killing off a hero your\u00c2\u00a0audience\u00c2\u00a0loves too much.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thorns.deviantart.com\/art\/Beta-Reading-Tutorial-174407561?q=favby%3AWriters-and-Editors%2F44610919&amp;qo=3\">BETA Reading Tutorial<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some good tips for BETA readers on how to make good notes and what to leave out of their notes. Also some tips for authors on how to work with BETA readers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Apart from being a writer&#8217;s best friend, beta readers provide a cross between edits and a critique. A beta reader does not edit a manuscript, but will note the errors for the author to fix. Advice and critiques are other services a beta may perform.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/literally-psyched\/2012\/07\/09\/lessons-from-sherlock-holmes-how-do-you-kill-your-hero\/\">Lessons from Sherlock Holmes: How do you kill a hero?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The expectations of readers versus what the author has in mind for their story.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When you highlight your genre ahead of time\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhowever you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve chosen to do so\u00e2\u20ac\u201dyou have to remain faithful to the parameters you set\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor risk the wrath and black armbands of your loyal fan base. When you betray the expectations of the genre, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like pulling the rug out from your audience. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a far worse crime than if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d not set any expectations to begin with.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two articles today. The first one offers some helpful tips for BETA readers while the second discusses the difficulties of killing off a hero your\u00c2\u00a0audience\u00c2\u00a0loves too much. BETA Reading Tutorial Some good tips for BETA readers on how to make good notes and what to leave out of their notes. Also some tips for authors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[96,97,50,99,80,98,17,82,15],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-articles-2","tag-beta-reading","tag-character","tag-expectations","tag-monday","tag-readers","tag-story-development-2","tag-tips","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}