Yeah reading that post was like a little lightbulb went on in my brain and made me understand something I'd struggled to articulate even in my thoughts before. It's very interesting and has definitely made me look at my beta relationships in a new light. I'm beta'ing a fic currently and trying to put some of the thoughts inspired by that post (and the comments on here!) into practice, and I think it's going to really improve the quality of my beta'ing. It's also made me rethink how I find my betas - I'm not sure putting a general call out on discord is going to get me the results I want for longer fics, I think I'll need to stick to asking people I know. I can see why people end up forming long term beta partnerships!
Oh thank you - that sounds like it could be a really helpful exercise! It'll definitely feel a bit strange - I'm not used to being 'allowed' to give concrit, especially not to authors who I admire, but I can imagine it'll help my writing so much. Once I'm done with the fest deadline I'm currently working to I'll have a go!
I'm open to you doing the same for any of my works too, by the way!
I'd be very interested in hearing more about your thoughts on concrit. I'm still in the process of turning my feelings on concrit into actual thoughts, if that makes sense, and am trying to figure out what *my* thoughts are without being swayed too much by the discourse around it on Tumblr. I definitely want to start getting more concrit, it's maybe the context that makes all the difference (ie if you decided to concrit one of my fics after this conversation or if a beta gives me concrit, that's fine, because I've asked and because I know you/my betas and know that you're a good writer).
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Yeah reading that post was like a little lightbulb went on in my brain and made me understand something I'd struggled to articulate even in my thoughts before. It's very interesting and has definitely made me look at my beta relationships in a new light. I'm beta'ing a fic currently and trying to put some of the thoughts inspired by that post (and the comments on here!) into practice, and I think it's going to really improve the quality of my beta'ing. It's also made me rethink how I find my betas - I'm not sure putting a general call out on discord is going to get me the results I want for longer fics, I think I'll need to stick to asking people I know. I can see why people end up forming long term beta partnerships!
Oh thank you - that sounds like it could be a really helpful exercise! It'll definitely feel a bit strange - I'm not used to being 'allowed' to give concrit, especially not to authors who I admire, but I can imagine it'll help my writing so much. Once I'm done with the fest deadline I'm currently working to I'll have a go!
I'm open to you doing the same for any of my works too, by the way!
I'd be very interested in hearing more about your thoughts on concrit. I'm still in the process of turning my feelings on concrit into actual thoughts, if that makes sense, and am trying to figure out what *my* thoughts are without being swayed too much by the discourse around it on Tumblr. I definitely want to start getting more concrit, it's maybe the context that makes all the difference (ie if you decided to concrit one of my fics after this conversation or if a beta gives me concrit, that's fine, because I've asked and because I know you/my betas and know that you're a good writer).
Good point - I'll do a proper search!