Writers Behaving Badly Podcast

✍️ How to Find the Right Beta Reader (and Be One)


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This week on Writers Behaving Badly: It’s the season two finale! Annie, Brooke, and Lisa wrap up a year of literary chaos with bread, burnout, and breakthroughs. Lisa digs deep for one final curly question and Brooke delivers the Footballer’s Baby conception scene…(almost)…

Plus: The knitting community comes for Hank Green in a thread war for the ages…

What You'll Learn:

The difference between a supportive beta reader and a confidence killer

How to give feedback that doesn’t make someone quit writing forever

Why “being kind” isn’t the same as “lying”

Segments Inside:

✍️ Sins & WinsLisa inches closer to ‘the end’ while Brooke and Annie creep further away…

🔥 Roast or ToastBrooke gives us what we’ve asked for…the Footballer’s Baby is finally conceived…

📚 Curly QuestionHow do you find a Beta Reader…but more importantly, how do you give good feedback without crushing a writer’s spirit? Lisa shares her wisdom.

🍵 Tea Time RantHank Green vs. the knitters: when socks are undervalued, and sexism enters the chat. Annie brings the chaos; Brooke tries not to choke on her tea. Are we cancelled? Afraid knot…

Our next Badly Behaved Write-Along is on Tuesday 28th October @ 8:00pm. Come and join us!



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