I print out a perfect copy of my finished story and hand it over to my wife, who reads it and finds hundreds of typos. She’ll also tell me things she doesn’t like — and I fix them. I then email this copy out to 5 or 6 beta readers who find the typos my wife missed, with surprising little overlap between the typos these readers find. They rarely offer even minor suggestions. But if they do, I usually take them.
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I print out a perfect copy of my finished story and hand it over to my wife, who reads it and finds hundreds of typos. She’ll also tell me things she doesn’t like — and I fix them. I then email this copy out to 5 or 6 beta readers who find the typos my wife missed, with surprising little overlap between the typos these readers find. They rarely offer even minor suggestions. But if they do, I usually take them.
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