HP Concrit Fest!

[dicta_contrion]

Very excited to say that I'm signed up for the new HP Concrit Fest!

As the name suggests, the fest is designed for giving and getting feedback on the strengths and weakness of your writing. What the name alone doesn't tell you is how thoughtfully the fest has been designed. Entries will be closed to community members, so no one outside of the community will see your comments unless you choose to make them public at the end of the fest. Written submissions will be between 2k and 7k to keep the commenting commitment manageable (and to avert the temptation to turn everything into a 30k mini-epic *cough*me*cough*) and the deadline is almost a whole three months away. Participants agree to comment on half the entries and will give at least one point of positive and one point of constructive criticism and flaming is strictly forbidden, so feedback should really give a sense for both what could be improved and what's already strong. And, with more and more people joining in - they're up to 19 participants already - it looks like it will be a really well-rounded group.

The kicker for me was that I haven't seen and can't remember hearing about something like this before. That could be a product of relative newness, but whether or not that's the case it seems like a not-to-be-missed opportunity to work at getting better with a community of people who want to do the same and who share the underlying love of fandom and fanworks.

So! Check it out! And consider joining in. My (possibly ridiculously kinkysmuttywrong) entry is already underway and I very much want to share the excitement!



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A Harry Potter Fest for Constructive Criticism



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Comments

[vaysh]

Thank you so much for this promo :) I can't wait for the fest. And I have never seen anything like it in fandom. There may have been similar communities in the earlier days of fandom but not since I am on LJ.

[firethesound]

I'm very much on the fence about this. I saw it and thought it was a brilliant idea and I like the idea of getting constructive criticism... but giving it to other people is something I have trouble with sometimes. And I'm honestly not sure I can write anything that's under 7k that isn't PWP. So... maybe? Lol, I'm still thinking about it.

[anemonen.livejournal.com]

I think this is such an interesting concept! I'm a bit on the fence myself, though. For the same reason Fire said; I would love getting critical feedback myself, but giving it seems very hard. But if they put up a post about it that might help. Although I'm not sure how much I could contribute to you writers, I know nothing of writing processes... So I'm a bit tempted and a bit scared :)

[blithelybonny.livejournal.com]

I'm so excited for concrit fest too! It's such a cool idea, and I'm glad it's set up the way it is, with safe space at first. It's going to be awesome.

And yay for kinkysmuttywrong!

Awkwardly, I think I'm going to submit some genfic...