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    Can someone be a Beta Reader for my Fic? My Grammar SUCKS! And I want someone that can help me with my English Problem. In other words, a Beta Reader. But I don't want a Beta Reader to criticize my fic's Humor. So can I haz a Beta Reader? :3
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    Perhaps tell a bit more about your story so interested people have more of an idea of what is involved, etc? E.g. what the story is about, how much is written, and so forth. Do you also want them to go over previous chapters? f not, how much do they need to read to in your opinion beta read your story?

    ...Any reason for not wanting any feedback on comedy used in your story, btw? From a quick glance it seems to be a comedy-genre fic, so that seems strange to not want feedback on it imo. And as a side note (in general to anyone who wants a beta reader btw, not a specific comment), run stories through a spell/grammar check and a proofread by yourself before sending it to someone else, as that's just common courtesy.

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    Sure! The Story is about an Author, who is running away from a group called The Grammar Police. And the only way to stop them, is with seven mythical artifacts known as the Chaos Emeralds and the Author is trying to find them. Fortunately for the Author, he found a couple of friends to help him out. Arceus, Gold and Red. And so the four of them began to travel around Johto to find the Emeralds. With a bunch of crazy things happening throughout the region(And when I say crazy, I meant CRAZY).

    Yeah, The Great Butler advised that I should get a beta reader, because my grammar stinks. But anyways, The reasons why I don't want a feedback on my comedy is because My sense of humor is random, and when the Great Butler reviewed my fic, it seems that he doesn't get the humor, but the review is quite helpful. Anyways, I want someone that is not a very serious person to be my Beta reader. Thanks for the side note!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dormant View Post
    Yeah, The Great Butler advised that I should get a beta reader, because my grammar stinks. But anyways, The reasons why I don't want a feedback on my comedy is because My sense of humor is random, and when the Great Butler reviewed my fic, it seems that he doesn't get the humor, but the review is quite helpful. Anyways, I want someone that is not a very serious person to be my Beta reader. Thanks for the side note!
    See... that might be your problem. Random humor is all well and good when you as the writer find it funny. But remember that you're posting this piece for a much wider audience and your readership may not understand your random humor. While I'm not saying you can't write funny things for yourself, it's hard to get a positive reception if your humor is nonsensical to your readers. It's okay to slip in a few nods and inside jokes that you and maybe one or two other people are the only ones who will get it, but if you're writing a comedy fic, remember that you've got to make sure that humor can be understood and appreciated by everyone. It's okay to have "random" humor, but if no one seems to be getting your jokes, then maybe you're a bit too random. See what I mean?
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    I would be glad to beta read it to check for grammatical mistakes. I should catch all of them. The reason I don't say anything when reviewing fics (usually) is because I don't have time at the moment. So, yeah, glad to help.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Psychic in The Authors’ Café Rules View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dormant View Post
    Yeah, The Great Butler advised that I should get a beta reader, because my grammar stinks. But anyways, The reasons why I don't want a feedback on my comedy is because My sense of humor is random, and when the Great Butler reviewed my fic, it seems that he doesn't get the humor, but the review is quite helpful. Anyways, I want someone that is not a very serious person to be my Beta reader. Thanks for the side note!
    If someone doesn't get the humour in your fic, or has any kind of criticism about your fic, then your response shouldn't be to ignore them. Your response should be to listen to what they have to say and see what you can do to improve in the future. As Feralninja said, if you're trying to write a humour fic, then you should aim to make your humour accessible to everyone. And frankly, a lot of people don't find random humour funny. So if you want to write a fic that makes people laugh, but the only way to try to do this is by using random humour, a lot of people won't laugh and won't find your fic funny. Frankly, that's the reason I didn't enjoy your fic either. Random humour just isn't funny to a lot of people, and if you want to write effective humour, you need to realize that.

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