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F!S Anon Meme (the Fifth)

Secrets, rants, opinions, anything you want to say about your fandom or a fandom or fandom in general, do it here! Anonymously, of course. Get it all off your chest.

(LJ's still lagging here and there, good luck.)

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[(Anonymous)]

Oh man I feel like such a bitch for even talking about this but I need advice.

I am new to a fandom that is quite old. The show itself aired in the late 1980s.
I was super surprised and happy to be able to talk with people about the show. Most shows I like don't have an active fandom.
Everyone that I have talked to has been really nice. They are all quite older than me, and I am 27 so I'm not exactly a youngin' myself.

Okay so... The problem started when I wrote a fic and asked for beta help. I am not the most prolific writer out there and rarely get the drive to write a whole story, but I was inspired. I asked for some beta readers to help with my story and two people were kind enough to help me. The only thing is that they are both, um, terrible writers. We are talking unintentional badfic level bad. The thing is that none of the other writers are much better. Not only can I not trust their editorial skills but when I read their fic to leave them some feedback there is literally nothing nice I can say that is genuine.

I feel like the hugest bitch ever. I will continue to be nice because they and everyone else are all so sweet.
Is there anywhere that I can get a good beta? I want actual grammatical critique and not just checking for misspelled words. I can do that on my own....

[(Anonymous)]

If none of the writers in your fandom are much better than unintentional badfic level, why did you ask them for beta help? You had to have known no one who offered would be acceptable to you.

[(Anonymous)]

when i asked for help originally, i hadn't yet gone through to read the ff... it wasn't until i asked for betas, who pointed me to their work, that i started to read. (i like to write for myself first, before i read fanfic, that way i'm not influenced by what others have written.)

also i figured that people who offered to beta would at least have the basic skills to do so. any other fandom that i have written for there have been mostly amazing writers, so maybe my expectations were too high?

[(Anonymous)]

This is common to a lot of fandoms, I fear. Sadly, I haven't a clue where to find a good beta, either. I hope you find one, anon.