Hi. I'm a radio producer of two nationally syndicated radio talk shows with 3.5 million listeners. Not naming the shows though because then you'll want to be my best friend and pitch me your non-fiction book. I'm here to support you and hope you'll support me too and want to beta read my memoir. So I'd like to set up a quid pro quo and read yours as well. I'll poke around and see what this is all about. I hope it's for real. Like I said, I'm seeing posts from 2007 and 2017, nothing from 2021. Cheers.
The community is twenty years old. We're fifteen in this format.
Some sub-forums are more active than others. We have an active critting and beta-reading community, but you won't be able to post something for crit, or request a beta, until you've made 50 substanstive posts. This more-than-a-decade old principle reduces the amount of exploitation by people who want critting, but don't otherwise participate.
Crits or critiques are pretty special, and have their own sub forum called Share Your Work (SYW). You need 50 posts to start a new thread in SYW.
The beta reading forum is
here.
Lots of times new members think they know what it means to be critted, and that their work is ready for it, when it isn't. So having to have 50 genuine, engaged posts gives new members a chance to figure out how critting works.
Until you have 50 posts, why not go to
Share Your Work and read some crits, and
carefully read the stickies, and maybe try your own hand at doing a crit ?
Once you have 50 posts, you can start your own thread in Share Your Work. Until then, reading crits, and trying your own hand at critting will help you understand what it's like to be critted. It also gives your peers a better idea about you as a writer, and a person.
