Re: Unusual fandoms - need helpemmademaraisJune 4 2008, 19:51:27 UTC
I believe I recently added a First Reader and Beta Reader FAQ or two. First Reader implies reading before anyone else, before the fic is done usually - when it's in its raw form. We use them here essentially as cheerleaders. They don't do any critique and aren't required to do any checking of any kind. They read the stories, offer encouragement and share what they liked about the story and what they are looking forward to in the upcoming parts. Authors can use alpha readers to check their work in progress fic if they'd like, but that's outside of the scope of this comm. Our goal is to encourage authors to keep writing and positive reinforcement is key. Some authors do establish relationships with our First Readers that turn into alpha/beta and that's fine, but we don't require that level of commitment from our the readers who sign up.
Britpicking is a specific beta kind of beta reading as is medical and thus outside of the scope of this comm as well. Our sole goal is to get authors to a completed first draft. Beta/edit/polish is their responsibility past that goal.
Well -- there's a LOT of *Psych* fic out there, check out Psychfic.com, Fanfiction.net (click TV Shows, then click Psych), plus several LJ Communities (I'm on two or three myself).
Oh, I'm not looking for Psych fic at all. I'm on comms because I write it. I'm looking for comms that will allow community advertising and will reach a large number of authors. I can't go chasing down authors for all the fandoms the comm covers so I need authors to come tell me to add the fandom. If there's enough interest I'll add it, but I also need 1-3 comms per fandom where I can post the Round closing dates/sign up reminders so people know when it's time to sign up for the month's round.
FYI, quotes in LJ are normally done with italics. [i] to open and [/i] to close only you have to replace the brackets with less than and greater than signs: >, <,
Britpicking is a specific beta kind of beta reading as is medical and thus outside of the scope of this comm as well. Our sole goal is to get authors to a completed first draft. Beta/edit/polish is their responsibility past that goal.
Well -- there's a LOT of *Psych* fic out there, check out Psychfic.com, Fanfiction.net (click TV Shows, then click Psych), plus several LJ Communities (I'm on two or three myself).
Oh, I'm not looking for Psych fic at all. I'm on comms because I write it. I'm looking for comms that will allow community advertising and will reach a large number of authors. I can't go chasing down authors for all the fandoms the comm covers so I need authors to come tell me to add the fandom. If there's enough interest I'll add it, but I also need 1-3 comms per fandom where I can post the Round closing dates/sign up reminders so people know when it's time to sign up for the month's round.
FYI, quotes in LJ are normally done with italics. [i] to open and [/i] to close only you have to replace the brackets with less than and greater than signs: >, <,
Let me know if any of this still isn't clear.
Thanks...
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