Wow. Those were both incredible, they gave me chills.
You're a bloody puppet! You're a wee little puppet man!
Spike ,'Smile Time'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
SailAweigh - Oct 17, 2006 5:01:47 am PDT #8551 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
JZ - Oct 17, 2006 9:49:30 am PDT #8552 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Totally non-drabbly question for the editors here:
My mom is passing on to me a self-published novel by one of her customers for editing. Apparently it's decently written and a good story, but full of typos and grammatical glitches, and my mom's bookstore won't sell it until it's cleaned up and looking all professional-like. She doesn't need a beta to dig into the storytelling and the characters' inner lives and the like, just a spelling and grammar nitpicker to go over it with a fine-toothed comb and take out all the nits and tangles and snarls until it's all smooth and silky-shiny. She's willing to pay. What should I ask?
Aims - Oct 17, 2006 9:51:45 am PDT #8553 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
A brazillion.
Steph L. - Oct 17, 2006 9:53:58 am PDT #8554 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
JZ, this page is a good place to start with freelance rates (what you'd be doing sounds like it falls into the plain old "copyediting" category): [link]
Amy - Oct 17, 2006 9:57:04 am PDT #8555 of 10001
Because books.
JZ, some people charge a flat rate dollar a page. Some charge anywhere from $12 to $22 an hour, with the expectation that in copyediting a novel, you can *generally* edit about ten pages per hour. So you can do it either way, based on what you want to make and what you think she can pay.
I've found with first-timers, it's easiest to charge a flat rate so there's a concrete expectation up front.
javachik - Oct 17, 2006 12:46:09 pm PDT #8556 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
Hi peeps. I know some of you and would like to know most of you. May I please join the GWW? And can someone please point me to the roolz (I'm guessing there's a word limit, right?). And if I am totally out of my element and coming across as a nin com poop, please let me know.
P.M. Marc - Oct 17, 2006 12:54:33 pm PDT #8557 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Hey, sweetie! Welcome aboard!
Steph can fill you in on most of it, but it's drabbles, so 100 words.
Ginger - Oct 17, 2006 1:00:50 pm PDT #8558 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Javachick! Oh, good.
In addition to the drabbles, this is also a place where people talk about the writing they're doing, or, in my case, the writing I'm not doing, unless you count writing about flow-accelerated corrosion.
javachik - Oct 17, 2006 1:03:39 pm PDT #8559 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
Thanks! Sounds like the right spot for the likes of me.
Flow-accelerated corrosion. Mmmmm....sexy!
Steph L. - Oct 17, 2006 1:04:25 pm PDT #8560 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
t points and screams at javachik, a la Body Snatchers....
Well, the weekly topic is posted here every Monday, as well as in the LJ community. It's pretty straightforward -- they're not fanfic drabbles, but beyond that, anything goes. Plus, though drabbles are officially 100 words, nobody around here is the Drabble Police. If you go over or under, it's no big deal.
Also, you have to send me chocolate. (Or Graeter's....)