Hello! About two(ish) weeks ago, I start listening to your podcast, starting from episode 1, and I just finished it! Loved it, thank you for making it. I was wondering, do you guys know of any places on the internet where a person could expect constructive criticism for their fanfic? Currently, the only irl person reading mine is my sister (yay her!), who is often at a loss for how to critic it. Thanks!

fansplaining:

This is Flourish responding, and Elizabeth can chip in if she has time: in my experience the best thing to do is to befriend fanfic writers (especially ones you like) and then, when you have done this, ask them to help.

On Wattpad’s forums there’s some groups that you can join for con crit, but depending on your writing skill you may find them unhelpful—there is no way to say this in a way that doesn’t make me sound like an asshat, but I found that they tended to be less experienced writers and therefore maybe less helpful to me. But I’m not sure I know of other places where it’s easy to find constructive criticism. Dear listeners, please chip in if you have ideas!

Crit for fic would be so great! I mean, I hear a lot on Fansplaining about how community norms have shifted away from this being a thing, which I get to some extent, but… psyched to see if anyone has any ideas in the notes! 

(SIDENOTE, autocorrect tried to change fansplaining to mansplaining -_-;)