is up over at Dreamwidth!

Find a beta reader or brainstorming helper, or offer your services to beta, brainstorm, or give advice relating to your particular expertise.

... has been posted on the Dreamwidth community for this year.

Please use that post to offer beta services and find a beta!

The 2017 beta post, by kate_nepveu and using a Google spreadsheet, can be found at the Yuletide Dreamwidth community.

Hello, in the last few years I've only written fic at Yuletide, so have had the luxury of the Yuletide beta list, yay! Now I've written a Lucifer NYR fic and gone looking for a beta on LJ lists and I'm guessing fandom has moved to tumblr or somewhere. Basically asking for advice on how one goes about looking for a beta nowadays? eg Do you look ( Read more... )

Whoa, the new matching process is super-fast!

Here is the unofficial form to offer to be a beta. Here is the spreadsheet where responses are collected and, when time permits, manually indexed. Thanks to everyone for feedback on the form ( Read more... )

Since Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton is a new fandom AND a very popular one, I suspect some folks might sign up to write Hamilton stories and then realize they've got a mountain of research ahead of them. If you're willing to beta-read Hamilton fic or answer author questions about history or the show, drop a comment here and let authors know the ( Read more... )

Hello, Yuletide community! I come bearing an unofficial form and spreadsheet for offering beta services and finding people.

Edit: feel free to use this post to say "gosh, I could really use a beta in X, Y, and Z!" This really can work, and it's no trouble at all.

Here's the sign-up form. Here's the beta offer spreadsheet. You can sign up to beta ( Read more... )

Dear all,

After discussion in this post, I have created a Google form for beta readers to offer their services. This should make the offers more consistent and therefore easier to browse/search by people looking for betas, as well as reducing the work needed to make the rest of the spreadsheet fully spiffy.

Here's what to do:

Offer your services ( Read more... )

Over the last several years I've betaed stories for Yuletide and it's always been fantastic. Is someone planning to make a post/spreadsheet for beta offers? If not, I'm happy to do one, but I would not be copying info over from comments, because time: I would set up a Google form that people would enter their offers into and it would automatically ( Read more... )

Hello Yuletide folk ( Read more... )