Subject: Er.
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Posted on: 2016-09-30 17:09:00 UTC

Yes, the second beta should be gotten before posting if they were needed. However, yes, there is absolutely a point to "correcting mistakes" after posting. There are definitely missions that have been taken down for betaing/editing/reworking, both recently and over the last year--I could probably name some of the authors and reasons, if I thought about it. There is *every* point to acknowledging concrit, taking your story down, and reworking it into something better. That's part of being a writer (who posts online, anyway; once you've published something on paper, it's rather harder to take it off the market for editing. On the internet, though, you have a good deal more opportunity to edit).

So, yes, sufficient betaing should be done before posting. However, there is *definitely* a point to taking down a story to be edited. It's a, a learning process, and b, how you get better writing, which is a big part of the PPC. We're a writing community, no? Missions are all about writing critique and making good writing out of bad writing, no? (And some other stuff, but those are key points). So editing a mission, even if it's already been posted? Absolutely there is a point. Absolutely. There is every point.

~DF

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