MM, love to beta if you need. Profile addy is good. Great stuff.
Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!
Wash ,'Serenity'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Wolfram - Nov 22, 2008 2:43:47 pm PST #1208 of 6698
Visilurking
Deena - Nov 23, 2008 8:50:25 am PST #1209 of 6698
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
I'd buy it too. That's awesome.
Miracleman - Nov 24, 2008 9:06:38 am PST #1210 of 6698
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Okay, so for a beta list I have: Anne W. Beverly Typo Boy Wolfram Deena
Anybody else? Anybody I name *not* want to beta?
Laga - Nov 24, 2008 12:27:24 pm PST #1211 of 6698
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Count me in if you need another reader. Lagarat at gmail.
Deena - Nov 24, 2008 2:45:07 pm PST #1212 of 6698
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
MM, I don't know how much I can respond. I'm really behind with work right now, but I'll do my best.
Miracleman - Nov 25, 2008 4:07:17 am PST #1213 of 6698
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
If you're swamped, Deena, it's cool, I don't have to send you anything.
Could that *sound* more passive-aggressive? But that's not how I mean it, honestly.
Deena - Nov 25, 2008 5:40:59 am PST #1214 of 6698
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Hee. No worries. I'd like to read it. I just don't want you sitting at your mailbox five minutes after you send it cursing me for my inability to respond.
edit: (or, reality, 10 days later.)
erikaj - Dec 06, 2008 7:06:19 pm PST #1215 of 6698
Always Anti-fascist!
Mystery fans: Is getting your detective protagonist roughed up necessary, played-out, or somewhere in between?
Ginger - Dec 06, 2008 7:54:40 pm PST #1216 of 6698
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
It depends on whether it happens all the time or not. If our hero gets roughed up too frequently, I tend to start worrying about his judgment and his medical plan. Mainly, I get irritated if he or she gets roughed up because he did something really stupid.
I was just thinking about something similar after reading one book in which I never felt as if the protagonist was in jeopardy and another in which I thought the oft repeated jeopardy began to seem contrived. It's a fine line.
Amy - Dec 07, 2008 2:08:43 pm PST #1217 of 6698
Because books.
I think it depends on what the story demands, erika. If it's set up well and means something -- either in character development or moving the plot -- then go for it.
The danger is something like Giles getting knocked out all the time, I think. That was played as a running gag after a while, of course, but in a novel, unless your tone is pretty light, that's harder to pull off.