IWSG Sept #1: On 'Beta Partners'

 Each month, IWSG challenges us to share our thoughts around a question (or some other issue that preoccupies us), to support and encourage writers at all stages of their careers.Here's the September 2 question - If you could choose one author, living or dead, to be your beta partner, who would it be and why? This month’s question sent me back to those earliest days when I dreamed one day of