Beta Thread or Subboard

[StoryGirl83]

Seeing Marie's request for a beta got me thinking. I don't know if it's viable, but I know sometimes I would like a beta, one who is interested in my story and willing to help bounce ideas off of.

I know this board is for completed fics, but we do have writing tips, which is awesome, and betas do help people complete fics at times, so my suggestion is that we either start a thread someone where in the Writer's Round Table for people to request betas (with people PMing them for responce) or start another subboard in there for people to post threads requesting betas. Ideally, they would be able to ask for either a general beta for everything or a specific beta for just one fic or group of fics. If it was a subboard, people should probably just respond in that thread rather than PM. The PM for threads would be so that it didn't get confusing who was replying to who. Also, if you did this the person wanting a beta should probably modify their thread to say that they got a beta once they do, so they don't keep getting responces.

I don't know if this is a viable option, but it could be something useful for people who are stuck in a fic that they want to post here, but just can't quite finish.

[Primrose Empath]

Actually, it's a very viable option and we'll get right on setting things up. Nice idea.

[StoryGirl83]

Great to hear. Thanks, Primrose.

[Primrose Empath]

You're more than welcome.

We are actually considering setting up two threads in the Ideas Exchange sub-board of the Writers' Roundtable -- one for finding general betas and one for finding betas for a specific fic / fics.

But as always, we'd love to know what you guys think.

[StoryGirl83]

I would be good either way, but I do like the idea of two threads, so that if someone only wants to beta for one story, they don't need to both sifting through the people wanting long term betas.

[marienomad]

I'm glad that my little request for a betareader helped inspired the idea.

[Aurora]

I think this is a wonderful idea.