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Susan W. - Feb 03, 2003 9:32:05 pm PST #3303 of 10000

Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Interesting, Plei. I'm a very dialogue-dependent writer, which surprised me to discover. I'm not much of a social beast in real life, so it's a bit of a shock that the imaginary people in my head are so fluent.

Though, when I finish the thing, I'm going to get more critical readers than I have in my current writing group. Most of them do very little dialogue, and are therefore impressed by the mere existence of a scene that's one long conversation. I'm not at all sure I'm doing as well as I want to on giving the major characters distinct voices.

The next project I plan to tackle is much more action-driven, which should be a good learning experience if nothing else.

Consuela - Feb 03, 2003 9:52:44 pm PST #3304 of 10000

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Action scenes hard. t /Barbie

P.M. Marc - Feb 04, 2003 2:59:12 am PST #3305 of 10000

So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Yet another new site.

[link]

Yes, it still needs debugging. I whipped it up in a couple of hours because someone needed it.

Anyone feels like volunteering for betahood (not for the site, I can test it myself--I need beta readers), I'll love you forever.

Am-Chau Yarkona - Feb 04, 2003 3:31:20 am PST #3306 of 10000

I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

Yeah! McCoy! Damn straight. Or not.

Yeah! Spock/McCoy. Oh, yeah.

I can beta, Plei.

Lyra Jane - Feb 04, 2003 7:36:06 am PST #3307 of 10000

Up with the sun

Plei, I'll beta. I've never done it before though -- so I might, y'know, suck.

P.M. Marc - Feb 04, 2003 9:19:15 am PST #3308 of 10000

So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Now that I'm more awake, I should specify, I'm looking for beta readers for the resource, because I'm ~~start raving mad~~ determined that I want to submit this as an official guild zone as soon as I meet the requirements.

Elena - Feb 04, 2003 5:06:17 pm PST #3309 of 10000

Thanks for all the fish.

I don't know what that would entail, Plei, but I'll be happy to chip in my $0.02 if you think I'd be useful.

Connie Neil - Feb 04, 2003 6:41:17 pm PST #3310 of 10000

brillig

I don't know if I can do good beta, I'm really not very good at taking a scalpel to "finished" work. I really love helping people flesh out plots and character motivations and help with logical flow. Pre-beta? Or is that alpha?

Elena - Feb 04, 2003 6:54:32 pm PST #3311 of 10000

Thanks for all the fish.

That would be a good beta, connie.

P.M. Marc - Feb 04, 2003 6:57:37 pm PST #3312 of 10000

So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Anything longer than a certain length, I send to beta. Umm. Of course, I've sent out thing of up to about 1500 words with no beta pass, and had them go over well, but I did a read-through first.

A good beta pass can be after the story is finished, or sort of a story doula, helping the story to be birthed.

Grammar/Spelling/Homophone checks, as well as checks for logical flow. All are marks of good betaing.

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