I need to find someone for both fanfic and original fic to tear my writing apart as much as I know I do for other people when they ask.
This is called exchanging crits. I've got a running exchange with several folks now, and I really like doing it that way. It becomes a standing situation, so there's less "oh fsck where did you come from?" and more of a "okay, your turn!" The only thing I ask is clarification on which type of crit - conceptual (characterization, plot, ambience, pacing) or editorial - (grammar, punctuation, spelling, structure). I specify for my stuff, and what you've got, I crit, and when I post, you crit in return.
And actually, I get very few crits from FmA, and the majority of non-anonymous crits are quite solid and helpful. Here on LJ and on GWA's BBS, I've gotten crits that have really made me think hard, revise harder, and have improved the story and my skills. It's just the anonymous crits that - like habibti says above - can really go south on simple courtesy.
But the offer stands, if you want to exchange crits. Hell, Hinotori knows when she's got her thesis ready I will happily apply my technical and editorial skills and return the crits she's doing on my fiction, so you're not just limited to returning fiction for fiction, if you'd rather offer up academia on the altar. ;D
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Date: 2 Dec 2004 11:45 pm (UTC)This is called exchanging crits. I've got a running exchange with several folks now, and I really like doing it that way. It becomes a standing situation, so there's less "oh fsck where did you come from?" and more of a "okay, your turn!" The only thing I ask is clarification on which type of crit - conceptual (characterization, plot, ambience, pacing) or editorial - (grammar, punctuation, spelling, structure). I specify for my stuff, and what you've got, I crit, and when I post, you crit in return.
And actually, I get very few crits from FmA, and the majority of non-anonymous crits are quite solid and helpful. Here on LJ and on GWA's BBS, I've gotten crits that have really made me think hard, revise harder, and have improved the story and my skills. It's just the anonymous crits that - like habibti says above - can really go south on simple courtesy.
But the offer stands, if you want to exchange crits. Hell, Hinotori knows when she's got her thesis ready I will happily apply my technical and editorial skills and return the crits she's doing on my fiction, so you're not just limited to returning fiction for fiction, if you'd rather offer up academia on the altar. ;D