I'll admit I stole some of the world's greatest beta's off the beta market. Yeah, I ninja'd them real good...
They wus jus' sittin' there, ociffer...
Two of them happened to be sitting on my side of the table at the last writer's group I went to. And we looked at each other and we were like Hey... How you doin'? Threesome? Aight....
Then, another one I found in one of my classes. I got to class early to I could read smut study in peace and i noticed he was reading a fantasy book. So I was like Hey... How you doin'? I can hook you up with some good stuff. First taste's free, but then you gotta work for the rest. Interested? Yeah... I thought so....
Yeah, and the last beta I found from here. *Shrugs* I thought his stuff was funny, so we's tradin' our bidness. I think, because our works are so different, yet similar in some respects, that we're a good beta match - it's energizing and inspiring to be exposed to different writing styles, techniques, a different way of seeing sometimes the same situation.
I've found that people who get me as a person, get my writing and understand my goals with it, so that's been my criteria for choosing beta readers. It's been working really well. Such a diverse group of betas means everyone picks up different things -which can be really confusing sometimes, but in the end, if they're all saying the same thing, then it's a problem i know I need to address.