The exchange timeline and deadlines worked for me, though I am a fast writer. The only way to really improve the experience for me would be to have it be less on top of Space Swap, though that's more at my end of things. :P
Re: art, a lot of exchanges mandate "clean sketches on nonlined paper" or "finished graphic". Perhaps see if something like that would be more to your liking on art rules?
On layout design, the greatest problems imo are that the grey is too light and the background is too contrasty. Fix those, and you're fine to go. (Maybe make the red less eye-searing while you're at it, too.)
I got my betas by asking friends and Yulechat, and I imagine a lot of other people did so, too. I'd think that a lot of people are slightly hesitant to have a stranger beta their fic, and thus go knocking on the doors of any usual betas they have.
In preparation of next year, I've started making a text file with basically my entire music library, sorted by keyword. Currently, I'm thinking about Stratovarius' Stand My Ground, and I'll nom at least one villainess song, which might be either Maija Vilkkumaa's Satumaa-tango or Delain's Mother Machine.
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Re: art, a lot of exchanges mandate "clean sketches on nonlined paper" or "finished graphic". Perhaps see if something like that would be more to your liking on art rules?
On layout design, the greatest problems imo are that the grey is too light and the background is too contrasty. Fix those, and you're fine to go. (Maybe make the red less eye-searing while you're at it, too.)
I got my betas by asking friends and Yulechat, and I imagine a lot of other people did so, too. I'd think that a lot of people are slightly hesitant to have a stranger beta their fic, and thus go knocking on the doors of any usual betas they have.
In preparation of next year, I've started making a text file with basically my entire music library, sorted by keyword. Currently, I'm thinking about Stratovarius' Stand My Ground, and I'll nom at least one villainess song, which might be either Maija Vilkkumaa's Satumaa-tango or Delain's Mother Machine.