Okay, so for a beta list I have: Anne W. Beverly Typo Boy Wolfram Deena
Anybody else? Anybody I name *not* want to beta?
No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.
Early ,'Objects In Space'
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.
Miracleman - Nov 24, 2008 9:06:38 am PST #1210 of 6693
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Laga - Nov 24, 2008 12:27:24 pm PST #1211 of 6693
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 6693
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 6693
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 6693
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 6693
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 6693
"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 6693
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.
Typo Boy - Dec 13, 2008 7:02:13 am PST #1218 of 6693
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
AU Channel Christmas Specials
Carl The Christmas Vampire
Little Match Girl II: She's back from the dead and out for revenge.
Saving Pottersville: Can the people of a thriving metropolis be saved from an evil spell that seeks to make them vanish as though they'd never existed?
Dreidel of the Dead: "shin" in this game will cost you more than just Hanukkah gelt.
CSI North Pole: who killed the sinister Arctic sweatshop owner with the midget fetish?
Anne W. - Dec 13, 2008 7:18:09 am PST #1219 of 6693
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Little Match Girl II: She's back from the dead and out for revenge.
That is wonderful. There are no words for how much I loathe the original story.