Yet another new site.
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.
Simon: You are my beautiful sister. River: I threw up on your bed. Simon: Yep. Definitely my sister.
'War Stories'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
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
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.
Rebecca Lizard - Feb 04, 2003 7:47:02 pm PST #3313 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
I'd say yes, for at least spelling & grammar; but I have enough self-knowledge now that I know that I can't beta anything I don't think is good. It becomes a degrading, falsely-cheerful experience; and it's not really *too* possible to say "Oh, I might beta for you. Let me see if first, and then I'll tell you if it's worth my time"-- arrogant, much? So now I'll do it only on personal-volunteer basis.
Elena - Feb 04, 2003 7:48:29 pm PST #3314 of 10000
Thanks for all the fish.
I think I'd have a serious problem betaing for someone who wasn't good... Lots of 'but do you think that Buffy would do that?' or 'is this really how Giles would phrase that?'.