It's okay to be terrified, Allyson, but please send. We all want to read it!
'Day' is a vestigial mode of time measurement based on solar cycles. It's not applicable. I didn't get you anything.
River ,'Out Of Gas'
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.
Burrell - Sep 08, 2009 2:18:14 pm PDT #2157 of 6690
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Gudanov - Sep 08, 2009 4:26:12 pm PDT #2158 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
I'm willing to be an extra set of eyes as well.
Allyson - Sep 08, 2009 11:54:44 pm PDT #2159 of 6690
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
1:53am. Done. Out to betaers with thanks! Too late (or early?) to pop cork on champagne.
Allyson - Sep 08, 2009 11:59:02 pm PDT #2160 of 6690
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
erika! Can't find your email anywhere. If you're still up for a beta, have your people email my people!
erikaj - Sep 09, 2009 4:59:46 am PDT #2161 of 6690
Always Anti-fascist!
Cool...sending to your profile.
Gudanov - Sep 09, 2009 5:06:36 am PDT #2162 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
It looks like it jumps from chapter 7 to chapter 10, is that just a numbering error?
I was planning to listen to it on my commute, but my software recorded using Anna (default voice that ships with Windows) instead of Audrey and I can't listen to Anna for more that a few sentences. I'll start listening on my commute home. I'll delete the audio files the moment I'm done listening.
After listening to the whole thing, I'll start going through it in more detail, but I probably can't be as detailed as usual.
Gudanov - Sep 09, 2009 5:40:03 am PDT #2163 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
I didn't do any writing work last night, DW looked tired and stressed so I did back and head messaging and generally hanging out.
However I think I finally figured out my character arc for Rainier (aka Mr. Not-A-Character-In-The-Rough-Draft). I've decided to cut a section out of the plot and that blew up his arc, so I had to create a new one. Now I wonder if he is necessary at all, strictly speaking the plot would work without him ever coming up, but it would also lose a lot. The events would still transpire, he would still be there in the background, the reader just wouldn't see them.
Gudanov - Sep 09, 2009 12:42:51 pm PDT #2164 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
I discovered three things I wrote and I had thought I destroyed all traces of still exist out on the Internet apparently rescued from a long defunct website. Terrifying and weird at the same time.
Allyson - Sep 09, 2009 7:38:39 pm PDT #2165 of 6690
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I'll have you all know that I will be a quivering, paranoid, impossible-to-live-with plate of gelatin until the first of the feedback comes in.
Someone may want to warn Kristen.
Barb - Sep 10, 2009 7:19:17 am PDT #2166 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
Heard back from lovely CP-- she caught a few nits, but otherwise says the new scene works well, so YAY for me and the first completely new scene I've written on this manuscript since MARCH.
You know, I hadn't really realized it had been that long since I wrote new material on this manuscript, but it had. I wrote the last new scene just prior to my surgery, then had to wait on agent response which took close to seven weeks, then did the new agent search, then set this aside in order to revise the Carmen manuscript and get it ready for submission.
I suppose it's not an accident that the first new words on this manuscript came literally the day after Carmen went out on wide submission?
::glares at subconscious for being a pissy git::