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McAnally's (The Community Pub) => Author Craft => Topic started by: Kali on January 21, 2010, 11:47:55 AM
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Anyone wanna beta 22 pages (in MS Word) of Dresden fic? It's not finished yet, but I'm looking for:
- egregious grammatical errors (except those in speech, since people talk all messed up)
- continuity with Dead Beat
- repetition of phrases/words in close proximity. For example, in the teaser I realized later that I used "sigh" a lot as a verb, and "around us/around him" within the same sentence. It made things awkward and I sometimes don't catch that stuff until my fourth or fifth edit.
The continuity is most important. You'll need to be very familiar with the story. I will note that there shouldn't be anything outrageous; I even bought a new copy of Dead Beat when I started this, just so I'd have a copy to highlight and dogear and margin-note.
There'll be more to review before I'm done.
Oh, and to be picky? If your spelling and grammar aren't at least as good as I display in my teaser post, please don't offer. I need someone better than me to check me.
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Do you have a target deadline?
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Not really. It's getting written as I have time, and I shouldn't have much time today or tomorrow. Ideally, I'll get a burst of inspiration and finish the initial draft this weekend. I wouldn't want it sitting around for a month or anything.
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Okies. If no one else gets back to you by March, though... lemme know. I am booked until March. Really.
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Uhmm...doesn't this kinda fall under the probably shouldn't be mentioned on the board sorta thing?
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No... why?
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Jim's opened the gates on Dresden fanfic, Starbeam. Besides, Kali's not posting the content here.
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Jim's opened the gates on Dresden fanfic, Starbeam. Besides, Kali's not posting the content here.
All righty, didn't know that.
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Yep. Read more here! http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,15308.0.html (http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,15308.0.html) Those who've been carrying on in secret are all atwitter about it!
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All righty, didn't know that.
Oh, that! :D Yeah, I started writing this fic in honor of the announcement. ... *eyes the fic* Well, the opening of the floodgates probably deserves better than one little witch-ette bumbling her way through SRS BZNZ but I do what I can.
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Okies. If no one else gets back to you by March, though... lemme know. I am booked until March. Really.
Thanks, Blaze. :) It's not really ambitious enough to take that long. It probably doesn't even really need as thorough a beta-ing as I'm asking for, but... Y'know, I just don't want my first Dresden fic to suck. *blush*
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Judging from the free sample, it won't. I love it.
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She says that to all the fanfic writers... ;)
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She says that to all the fanfic writers... ;)
*bursts into tears*
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Don't cry! I compliment when I see things to compliment. I also send criticisms via PM. What I love to see is people taking a chance and putting themselves out there. Your writing is your baby, and I know that. It take huge courage to post your baby on a fansite.
And I say that love it, because I do!
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Oh, that! :D Yeah, I started writing this fic in honor of the announcement. ... *eyes the fic* Well, the opening of the floodgates probably deserves better than one little witch-ette bumbling her way through SRS BZNZ but I do what I can.
Not only that but you can post your fanfic under its own thread. That is a turnaround.
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We'll see how big it ends up being. Right now, I think it's probably going to be too long to post. Maybe a series of posts? It might be easier to link to my website where I have other bits of fanfic up from other fandoms. I think it's running around 8k words now, which sounds a trifle long to me for something to post on a message board.
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Yeah a link to a web site with a first chapter here would save bandwidth, right? Then Fred won't have to get all nutsy because we take over! Bwa ha ha ha ha.
Can't wait for more fanfic.
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I'm willing to beta if you still need someone to do it. ^_^