I generally only beta for people whose work I've read before, otherwise it's too easy to end up with something that's beyond help. The X-Files fandom used to have a mailing list where you could send away for a beta. Now those were some brave souls, willing to read anything fandom threw at them. Yeh.
I don't use a word processor because my computer is very old and doesn't deal with technology well. I use NoteTab Light, a free notepad program. It's small and quiet and doesn't make me crash horribly like Microsoft Works does, the program that came installed on this computer. NoteTab doesn't have spellcheck, which is unfortunate because I am a terrible speller, but then I don't have to put up with Bill Gates trying to autoformat everything I do, either. I'm actually quite happy with it. I don't blue screen three times a day anymore, and it ensures everything I write is in plain text.
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Date: 2004-08-29 12:19 am (UTC)I don't use a word processor because my computer is very old and doesn't deal with technology well. I use NoteTab Light, a free notepad program. It's small and quiet and doesn't make me crash horribly like Microsoft Works does, the program that came installed on this computer. NoteTab doesn't have spellcheck, which is unfortunate because I am a terrible speller, but then I don't have to put up with Bill Gates trying to autoformat everything I do, either. I'm actually quite happy with it. I don't blue screen three times a day anymore, and it ensures everything I write is in plain text.