Where do you post your work for feedback?

[Ann]

I asked this on Google+ but I shall ask it here again, do you post on your own site? Or on another?

Have you had good experiences with what you've used?

[G.G.]

Neither. I've been a member of a gaming group for many years. We're friends while still strangers. Some of them I've never talked to; we don't play the same games.
Anyway, when I needed feedback on my first book I offered the ebook on our forums. Of course, not all of them are readers but many responded. They gave me their opinion on what I should add, corrected some of my mistakes, and best of all, encouraged me to continue, and publish, which at some point I greatly needed.

Now, my first real fans and followers come from that guild. I will certainly go that route again with the sequel.

[Adam]

I've used authonomy in the past. There's a lot of drama on there, but if you find the right group it can be quite useful.
it was a great place to meet fellow authors looking to work together

[James]

Do you mean unpublished WIP? Nowhere. Putting it out there and listening to everybody chime in helps a lot of writers and is very effective when writing for series television. But it can be confusing, and for me at least, it takes away the laser like focus needed to write an original novel that comes from the gut.

I play it very close to vest and keep everything I write under wraps, even to close friends. I want the work to be as unfiltered as possible and that first read and reaction to be pure. Kind of like going to see a movie you know little about and getting the true experience with no expectations. Nobody sees a word of what I write until the final draft is complete and I get together with an editor. Of course, once the book is published I seek out feedback through all the usual pathways. My feeling is that first batch of readers is always the most accurate feedback on the work.

[G.G.]

@James I don't know if she meant WIP but if so, I'd have to change my answer because I only offered mine as beta read. My book was finished. I wanted to have feedback before the last edits and quite honestly, I needed to know if it was worth putting money into it.

I have to agree with you. In the end it's your story and having people telling you what you should do with it, how it should end or what not, might kill the inspiration and the originality.

However, people asking you questions about this or that helps tying the knots together sometimes.

[Ann]

No I didn't mean WIP, but thats interesting too.

I want to post a short story I've written for halloween for anyone who wants a creepy themed Sci Fi story to read.

I posted on ReadWaves and got 600 reads but that was mostly due to my own advertising, I want somewhere like that with more internal traffic and better designed.

Don't really want to go the deviant art route again lol

It will probably just end up on my blog.

[James]

@G.G. Oh yes, a Beta reads can be very helpful especially if you have a complicated plot and a lot of characters. I was coming from the creative end of it. I know people who literally get feedback from forums chapter by chapter. For me that would taint the process. That is sort of how television is done; a head writer/show runner pitches to the room and each writer gives feedback. It works great for TV. What I like about a book is it's one person's unique creative vision.

@Bisky Have you looked into http://dailyfig.figment.com/ ?

I know a writer who loves it for her short stories and everyone gives feed back there.

[Ann]

That one I shall try :3 thanks

[Stephanie]

I've tried different sites but I haven't had good luck anywhere really. What I really could use is a couple beta-readers. Right now I have one but she mostly only proof-reads and looks for serious editing errors, not so much on the feedback regarding the actual story :(

[Carl]

I participate in a writers' workshop that focuses on poetry and short fiction.

Most stories & novel mss. go to some beta readers.