disinterest: people who can't admit when they're wrong

[sab]

Faux pas #78636; turns out you can only select one of the radio buttons on that last box, and one can't edit a poll! And so, go ahead and just check one.



[Poll #626294]



And then I'll stare at these answers and do some highly unprofessional analysis and post some more questions tomorrow, along with some general rambling on people who admit they're wrong and people who ARE wrong and people who are dumber than other people. Watch this space!

Comments

[permetaform]

For the last question these three:
- Knows most things, and can admit what she doesn't know.
- Knows some things and asks lots of questions about things she doesn't know.
- Knows a lot about specialized things, and doesn't demonstrate any doubt in those arenas.

For the beta question:
It's different for every fic, especially for mine 'cause I tend to go for heavy stream-of-consciousness with a heaping handful of play-on-formatting and try to find beta's who are narratively/plot orientated. Also, I tend to write some lines for their aural value and if they don't 'scan' right I'd just leave it. So roughly half/half, being more or less depending on the nature of the fic.

[permetaform]

pwah! that last paragraph made no sense, which, yeah, I should go to sleep before attemping to comment.

But basically:
I write in a form that tends towards non-narrative. I find betas that think as little like me as possible. After getting back their replies, usually to the tune of "that didn't make sense", I get bummed and then leave and then return to tweak the stuff, but do it so that the original intent is there but transferred in a way that makes at least a mediocrum of grammatical sense. Sometimes I keep things that don't make grammatical sense because it scans better the other way.