"Send more" is always encouraging.
That's my girl... That's my good girl.
Kaylee ,'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.
Amy - Aug 02, 2011 6:24:00 am PDT #4532 of 6690
Because books.
hippocampus - Aug 02, 2011 11:58:21 am PDT #4533 of 6690
not your mom's socks.
It is! I'm going to sit on the encouraged bench.
I'm getting ready to send a couple back out into the wild by the end of the week, in fact. If anyone wants to beta? Or, in one case, gamma or epsilon.
Gudanov - Aug 02, 2011 1:41:06 pm PDT #4534 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
I'll beta. But I probably won't be real quick.
My submission from February is still out there, but they say 6-8 months, so I only starting to get toward the standard reply time.
hippocampus - Aug 02, 2011 1:43:54 pm PDT #4535 of 6690
not your mom's socks.
Yah, those guys have a long lead time.
Thanks Gud!
Gudanov - Aug 02, 2011 6:18:24 pm PDT #4536 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
No problem, I'm happy to beta read. I wish I had the time right now to be really quick on the turn around, but I'll try to get there in the next couple of days.
hippocampus - Aug 03, 2011 3:43:37 am PDT #4537 of 6690
not your mom's socks.
Gud - Insent. I don't want you to be slammed.
Strix - Aug 03, 2011 6:08:46 am PDT #4538 of 6690
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I'd offer to beta stuff -- next week, though, so this offer might now work.
ION, I am blogging once a day on "Fiction" and it's kicking my ass. But it's like windsprints, except for no running (thank you jesus.)
Yesterday's post was finished at 1:30 am, so it's a little slap-happy, but I am grimly determined to pump out something every day for August. I WILL WRITESERVERE!
It's the top ten ways to make your novel a wallbanger - you know, thrown across the room in disgust: [link]
Toddson - Aug 03, 2011 7:01:54 am PDT #4539 of 6690
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
verb tenses that time-travel more than a Diana Gabaldon heroine
snerk
Gudanov - Aug 03, 2011 7:15:05 am PDT #4540 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
You've actually run into a published book where a character got referred to by a different names? That seems like a pretty big slip-up.
I came across a place in my rough draft where for one scene I used a completely different name for a character (as opposed to just a different spelling, which, um, I'm discovering needs some work). I was kinda horrified that I did that.
Toddson - Aug 03, 2011 7:30:45 am PDT #4541 of 6690
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
It happens. A lot of people aren't as careful and it seems copy editors should be on the endangered list.
On All About Romance a book was once given an F- grade - it was a western and the hero rode in on a stallion and out on a gelding.