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ghettoelleth
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If I don't grasp the concepts of comma and semi colon or period cap soon, my poor beta's gonna have a brain hemorrhage
I'm TRYIN' YAYA!
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Yavanie
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| Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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As I've said before, dear Ghetto, you write, I'll punctuate. Quit stressin over that, genius (and I mean that in the most affectionate way).
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ghettoelleth
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| Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 11:57 pm Post subject: |
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Wait just minute Miss
SEMI COLON OR PERIOD CAP, PUNCTUATION IS NOT OPTIONAL HERE. THIS SENTENCE IS BRILLIANT BUT IT'S A PUNCTUATION TRAIN WRECK.
I'm having wayyyy too much fun. You guys have me spewin' tonight
(disclaimer: Ya did not go caps/bold on me til after the 7th time I sent it to her uncorrected)
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mistressofbucklebury
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| Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 2:10 am Post subject: |
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Me thinks I have a little issue with comma usage myself!!!
"no comm., commas will be okay without you MoB, they’ll find another home, honey!"
But at least I got it right once in four pages 
"now don’t wet yourself, but…YAY, good comma placement!"
Woo-hoo!!!
Now I'm not sure if she's talking about me or my OFC but...
"You are killin' me girl. Would you get some already??????"
Either way I'll see what I can do!! 
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ghettoelleth
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| Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 3:13 am Post subject: |
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I knew when I saw MoB's name before I even opened the thread I was busted. Darn! MoB, say hello to my beta 'er, Yavanie.
Yavanie, I'd like you to meet my Beta'ee, MoB. aka, I-love-commas-so-much-every-single-word-should-have-one-of-its-very-own
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mistressofbucklebury
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| Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 6:46 am Post subject: |
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shame 
I can't help it if I'm the founder member of comma-holics anonamous (Sp?)!!!
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SpaceWeavil
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| Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:18 am Post subject: |
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| mistressofbucklebury wrote: | Me thinks I have a little issue with comma usage myself!!!
"no comm., commas will be okay without you MoB, they’ll find another home, honey!"
But at least I got it right once in four pages
"now don’t wet yourself, but…YAY, good comma placement!"
Woo-hoo!!!
Now I'm not sure if she's talking about me or my OFC but...
"You are killin' me girl. Would you get some already??????"
Either way I'll see what I can do!! |
I hate commas myself. First thing I tend to do once I've written a chapter is go through it again and take out the 15 million commas that have no right to be there whatsoever. Usually when I beta I spend most of my time on that as well.
Saying that, I did have a beta once for my science fiction stuff who was obsessed with the things. Think she thought they were tally marks for doing a word count, so no matter what the sentence is like, you put a comma after every three words.  So I spent most of my time going over the stuff she'd beta'd and taking 'em all back out again. Nasssssty little commases, precioussss.
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Alassante
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| Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 11:23 am Post subject: |
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According to Viv, I have a dangling problem. I haven't figured out is she is talking about my writing or if that is a personal insult. 
Last night I was reviewing something I had written the previous night at about 12:30. I had a whole long paragraph with commas, connecting words (and, as if, etc) and by God there was not one period. A huge paragraph was all one sentance. And you wanna know what made it worse. I committed my other crimes both Viv and Ghetto complain about - not only was this one long sentence but I changed POV - not once but twice - then I changed tenses from past to present. Needless to say - I had to fix it really bad.
Never write after being up 20 hrs. It turns into crap. I can just imagine the brainbleed that one of my lovely betas would have had after that sentence/paragraph. - to quote Ghetto - "Don't just do a spell check before you send it to me, read this crap, fix it and send it back to me when it is right. "
Now Viv would never say anything so mean. I imagine she would have pounded her head on her desk before she gave me a helpful suggestion on how to fix the crap. I just know sometimes her teeth are gritted with these helpful suggestions and I imagine if she were in front of me, her nails would be imbedded in my throat. But she never lets me know how much I drive her crazy!! Love ya Viv. 
Used to love you Ghetto until you became a beta slut doing everyone's stuff but MINE!  But hey - that's okay. I have had to just accept the fact that my stuff goes to the bottom of a never ending pile. All of you who are reading Vanelosse 3 and waiting for Legolas to get revenge - ask Ghetto where it is. It's getting dusty in her stack of "more important beta'ing than Alassante, my first betaee's, stuff". 
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ghettoelleth
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| Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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Okay everybody, quiet on the set! Belen's gettin' her freak on! Al, can you beta this for me?????
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Alassante
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| Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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| ghettoelleth wrote: | Okay everybody, quiet on the set! Belen's gettin' her freak on! Al, can you beta this for me?????
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Am I beta'ing it for grammer and punctuation or to see if it is humanly possible??? Wait, he's an elf, that doesn't apply. You go girl.
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Alassante
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| Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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SpaceWeavil just made it into my "comedy beta trio"
First -
My character Amrun says to Eomer - perhaps you have a little elf in you as well.
So Space types in "Whereupon he replies, have you got a bit of Rohirrim in you? No? Would you like to?"
Second -
So then she is beta'ing late at night, she thinks "breathing quicken" is "breathing chicken".
So welcome to the club, Space!
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SpaceWeavil
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| Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 10:25 am Post subject: |
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| Alassante wrote: | SpaceWeavil just made it into my "comedy beta trio"
First -
My character Amrun says to Eomer - perhaps you have a little elf in you as well.
So Space types in "Whereupon he replies, have you got a bit of Rohirrim in you? No? Would you like to?"
Second -
So then she is beta'ing late at night, she thinks "breathing quicken" is "breathing chicken".
So welcome to the club, Space! |
Well I just misread it and wondered if 'he felt his breathing chicken' was a euphamism I hadn't heard of 
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SilverMoonLady
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| Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 10:29 am Post subject: |
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like goose bumps??? *giggle*
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SpaceWeavil
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| Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 10:31 am Post subject: |
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| SilverMoonLady wrote: | | like goose bumps??? *giggle* |
Yeah, exactly. Doesn't heated romance make most people break out in breathing chickens?
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SilverMoonLady
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| Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 10:40 am Post subject: |
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so that's where those feathers came from.... 
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