Beta community seeks old fics!

[amedia]

[shamelessly stolen from blade_girl]

You remember those fics you wrote a loooong time ago, back when you were a mere budding artist instead of the accomplished unpaid professional you are today?

Well, I was wondering if we could sorta... borrow those charming fics of your yesteryear.

See, I'm working with several friends from the Tin Man fandom to create a beta community, and we want to be able to test prospective beta readers to ensure that we are choosing people with really top-notch skills. To accomplish this, we want to give beta candidates a test fic; they'll read and return their feedback to us. And we need as many stories as we can get our hands on for this purpose.

We'll be posting the fic to a separate testing community; the beta candidates will post their feedback in comments, which will be screened until such time as the candidate is accepted. We won't be actively promoting the test comm, but it's definitely going to be visible to anyone who cares to go look at it.

If you have some old stories, I urge you to consider letting us put them to this very worthwhile use. If you prefer, we would leave your name off the fic, but we kinda like the idea of keeping the names on - it demonstrates that everyone had to start raw and unpolished before they reached the heady heights of skilled wordsmithery.

I really hope some of you will be able to help me out! Any fandom is welcome, and the more the merrier; it's hard to find "old" fics in a fandom that's less than four months old. ;) Consider this a way of giving something back to fandom by helping others to raise the overall quality of fanfic writing.

And a thousand thanks for your help!

ETA: If you could see your way clear to pass this along in your own journal, we'd be very grateful. :)

Comments

[amedia.livejournal.com]

Oops!

This is so kind!

Could you ask people either to send fics to tmbetagold @ gmail . com or to post a comment with a link here (http://amedia.livejournal.com/100128.html)?

Thanks so much!

[maubast.livejournal.com]

Done! You're welcome! *hugs*

[verilyverity.livejournal.com]

Howdy. I'm the record-keeper for this little endeavour. Would you consider making that post public so I can add it to my memories, just in case some people link you to fics in comments?

[amedia.livejournal.com]

I think maubast's whole journal is f-locked (can you unlock one post in that circumstance?), but I asked her to have people reply to this post, plus the beta gmail address. The response from raven_polaris below is from maubast's post.

[verilyverity.livejournal.com]

Perfect!

[maubast.livejournal.com]

My entire journal is locked down by default. I'm not sure why people would post fics in my journal, as I ask them to go elsewhere, but if you can tell me how to unlock that one entry, I will do so.

[verilyverity.livejournal.com]

Beats me. :/ Don't worry about it, though. Hopefully, your flist will send them to amedia or the email address. If not, we'll just lose a few. Not a big deal.

[maubast.livejournal.com]

If anyone comments with a link, I will send them on to amedia.

[verilyverity.livejournal.com]

That would be great! Thanks!