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.
Aren't they something. They're like butterflies, or little pieces of wrapping paper blowing around.
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
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.
hippocampus - Aug 02, 2011 11:58:21 am PDT #4533 of 6690
not your mom's socks.
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.
Gudanov - Aug 03, 2011 7:41:07 am PDT #4542 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
it was a western and the hero rode in on a stallion and out on a gelding.
Well, it's more believable than the other way around.