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I'm so sick and tired of all the stupid shit fanfic in my fandom and I'm getting increasingly bitter about all that fanfic getting so much attention - yes I am petty - that I've decided to take a stab at writing again.

(Okay sure there's other reasons but honestly nothing fires my muse more than seething disappointment in the works of others. I am fix-it fic incarnate.)

Thing is, if I'm to get back into the game I need a beta. And I never needed to search for one before because I always had a close fandom friend to check it out for me. Now I don't and don't have the slightest idea of where to look.

Should I search for fandom specific ones? Or should I search for a general beta? I'm trying to improve my writing style so I'd need one who knows good writing flow/grammar/etc.

And this is just my introversion talking but I don't really want to create a writer/beta relationship or make friends or anything. I just want to plonk my fic down and declare open season and just have someone take it apart as needed. An english teacher if you will.

So, uh, yes. Help?

Eh...I know ff.net has a beta thing that kind of sounds like what you want but idk how good it is.

It does. No idea how good it is.

I've always had good experiences with it, provided you look in your fandom and find somebody who specifically offers what you want.

I had good experiences with it, but you need to look at a few profiles first to find someone who fits your needs and sounds like someone you can get along with, even if it just for one fic.

What fandom?

Shingeki no Kyojin / Attack on Titan

Sorry, should have specified I'm the OP, I'm not used to being anon.

And honestly, I don't really want a fandom-specific beta? Sure, it's my fandom now, but maybe I'll write fics for other stuff in the future.

No worries, I figured it was you.

There are benefits to having a fandom-specific beta, depending on what kind of help you're looking for with your fics. Someone who knows the fandom can pick out characterization and continuity problems that a general SPaG/word-choice beta would miss. Is that something you would find valuable, or do you mostly just want the nuts-and-bolts of your writing itself looked at?

Could you be a little more specific about what you want to write? I volunteer to beta a lot and this is a fandom I'm familiar with if not in, but content makes a difference.

There are few comms out there on LJ or DW specifically for finding a beta. You make a post with all the data - fic length, fandom, genre - and then what type of beta you're looking for specifically. I've never used one but it's an option.

Ask for one? Ask for one to volunteer with a paragraph of fiction so you can assess their skills? I got one once when I was just asking for critique for personal improvement because my grammar sucks. balls.

Yes, but where would I ask for one? Just ask in a fandom forum/blog/journal/etc? Go to a writing forum?

I hope this doesn't double post, my internet is being shitty.

Sorry, I meant ask for one in you next fic post/update? My platform was a nearly dead fandom community on LJ and I was lucky to come across one. So I guess a relevant fandom forum, maybe tumblr or is there a forum on the fic website you can post a request?

Thank you for asking this, because I've been wondering the same thing. Most of the beta communities seem kind of dead, and I wonder if there's even a point to posting there.

Has anyone had luck with asking for betas on Tumblr?

betaplease

I can say as somebody who's done beta work (and is a writer myself, and worked with a bunch of betas), there are a few ways you cam go about it. One way is to do your best on the beginning, post it, see if people exhibit interest, and then ask for a beta for that specific story (in the hopes that they'll want to branch out to your other stuff later).

Heck, I'd volunteer (snk fandom) but I have no idea what type of beta you're even looking for (SPAG bores me, but I love ironing out story/plot/characterization issues), and I've got time issues. Though I personally love the beta/writer relationship so sounds like I'm not for you anyway XD

As people have said, you can look through beta communities. I've found good people on ff.net, actually, but sometimes it's hard to know if they're still active accounts or not. You should probably look for somebody who's posted fic recently; higher chance of interest, there.

If it's shippy, you can post in shippy circles asking, because there's a concentration of people invested in reading that type of story. People want more shippy fic, and might be willing to invest in getting it. I've found that posting on Tumblr has been the least useful for me, personally, though.
Sorry I can't be more of a help... good luck!

I've been wondering the same thing, actually. I'm about to get back into fandom, but I don't know where in Avengers fandom to go for a beta, and I would like to have a beta to look over my fics BEFORE I post them. :(

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