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After a search of the forums, I didn't find my answer so I'm going to try to post a question here. If wrong, I apologize and ask the Mods move it accordingly.
I have a small group of fellow writers who have agreed to be alpha and beta readers for me. So far, all is good.
What I want is to establish some type of guideline for my readers so they have an idea of my expectations and how I will try to work getting back to them.
I realize this probably sounds OCD or controling, but I don't want to be waiting three months for an alpha read to respond to a 2000 word short story.
So I guess I have a few questions.
1) Do you have similar guidelines?
2) If you do, what are they like?
Or if not, how do you work with your alpha and beta readers for timely responses?
3) Have you ever had to drop a reader for being outside of reasonable response times?
Yeah, lots of questions. Thanks for considering.
I have a small group of fellow writers who have agreed to be alpha and beta readers for me. So far, all is good.
What I want is to establish some type of guideline for my readers so they have an idea of my expectations and how I will try to work getting back to them.
I realize this probably sounds OCD or controling, but I don't want to be waiting three months for an alpha read to respond to a 2000 word short story.
So I guess I have a few questions.
1) Do you have similar guidelines?
2) If you do, what are they like?
Or if not, how do you work with your alpha and beta readers for timely responses?
3) Have you ever had to drop a reader for being outside of reasonable response times?
Yeah, lots of questions. Thanks for considering.