"BuffyBot" ,'Dirty Girls'
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
Crossposting from the Supernatural thread:
Aside from supernaturalfic over on LJ, are there some other comms there or on DW that would be likely to accept a gen-ish John/Mary fic? Basically, I'm trying to figure out where to crosspost my SPN BB in hopes of getting a bit more traffic.
Here are some comms that might suffice. I haven't scoped them all, but your BB might fit some of their qualifications.
bobbyslibrary
looseblackrifle
papawinchester
silverbullets
singer_salvage
spn_gen
spn_outsidepov
spn_roadhouse
spngenlove
Thank you! That's a big help. I don't want to spam anyone, but I do want to make sure the story doesn't get too lost in the shuffle, either
Cartoony versions of characters from A Song of Ice and Fire.
Okay, so I get an LJ message.
And it's from someone I've never heard of, who is offering to provide proof-reading services on the novel I posted two weeks ago.
After I accept their corrections, then they'll be happy to tell me nice things about my story.
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Sheesh, I was just trying to help.
I'm trying to figure out why I'm so annoyed by the message.
... you know what it reminds me of? A project I worked on several years ago, where we got hundreds & hundreds of comments from the public on this controversial project. And several of them were from a woman who hated the project, but then said she would be happy to be paid to fix the report for us.
Oh, and it's a guy. For some reason that cheeses me off even more.
I'm trying to figure out why I'm so annoyed by the message.
Really? Cause it's not a mystery to me.
Well, let me clarify: I'm trying not to come over all Raargh I am The Author How Dare You Criticize Me. I don't want to be one of those people who cannot take criticism.
It's not a terribly rude message. But (a) I'd never heard from him before; (b) I had two betas on the novel, both of whom I've known for over a decade; (c) he says he's qualified to do this because he's proofread published novels in the past.
But really, the big issue is that whatever he says, I'm not going back to re-edit a 120K-word novel that's posted in ten different parts on two separate archives.