Elena, maybe "lack of Ceremony"?
Bev, basically what you did for me on Famous Flower and are now doing for Matty Groves, but with a bit more indepth immediacy. basically, it's the pre-release readover.
Doesn't winter seem more like archiving season?
Willow ,'Lessons'
Buffista Fic: It Could Be Plot Bunnies
Where the Buffistas let their fanfic creative juices flow. May contain erotica.
deborah grabien - Mar 06, 2003 9:08:38 pm PST #2168 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Elena - Mar 06, 2003 9:10:06 pm PST #2169 of 10001
Thanks for all the fish.
Some betas are good with the grammar and the spotting of tense switches and typos and awkward sentences and stuff. And some concentrate on characters, the right voice, the right action, consistency and stuff. And some just like to see the good fic before anyone else...
And, sometimes, it's all of the above and more.
deborah grabien - Mar 06, 2003 9:13:33 pm PST #2170 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
What Elena said.
Bev's been a beta-editor for the integrity of the humanity and scare factors for the last two books. juliana has been beta reading both novels. Betsy did costume advice and other beta stuff on "Weaver". All are thanked on the acknowlegements page of the books.
Beverly - Mar 06, 2003 9:13:49 pm PST #2171 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
This might should go to email, but your stuff is always so close to finished there doesn't seem to be much I can tell you, Deb. The nitpicky word choice, typo, punctuation.
I tend not to mention content, especially reading in sections. Unless it veers wildly into the no-way-Jose territory, I figure content is the writer's bailiwick, and I really reserve opinion till I read the whole thing.
Is that adequate? Or do you want someone more upfront about content? Anyone?
deborah grabien - Mar 06, 2003 9:16:59 pm PST #2172 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Well, in the novels, it's exactly as you called it: the content is there, and I don't do first drafts, essentially my stuff is complete, but I need it for flow and pacing and to get touchstones for what works and what doesn't.
But these are my maiden forays into fanfic, so I'd love a closer eye by person or persons more familiar with how they meld into the existing canon.
Beverly - Mar 06, 2003 9:20:48 pm PST #2173 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Sure, okay, I can understand that. But keep posting it here, okay? I have to know what happens/ed next!
Rebecca Lizard - Mar 06, 2003 9:21:37 pm PST #2174 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
(deb, babe, close the loose t b tag in yr post 2165!)
t ed. & I'd be jumping to beta, but I can't do it right now. Real-life stuff. You have my sincere regrets, though.
deborah grabien - Mar 06, 2003 9:24:52 pm PST #2175 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
closed. For some reason, I bolded to open and italicised to close. This is likely because I'm a 'frelling brainfried woman who is awaiting dinner and drugs....
Rebecca Lizard - Mar 06, 2003 9:31:29 pm PST #2176 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
closed. For some reason, I bolded to open and italicised to close.
Dude, I do that all the time.
Except I t /a to close italics. Which is worse, really.
deborah grabien - Mar 06, 2003 9:34:14 pm PST #2177 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Whoops...
whoohoo! Husband! Burrito, here comes me!
back later.