[Ceana]

My Master Beta Geek is male and through his patience has helped me become a less timid writer. I appreciate the fact that he never sugar-coats his critiques.

When I wrote a scene where Maedhros is drinking tea with my OC and suddenly hears something, I wrote that he dropped his cup on the saucer almost breaking it in his haste. Beta Geek highlighted this and wrote in bold letters...."Break the damnable cup woman. There's no 'almost' about it." I imagined a Richard Burton kind of voice booming at me. Consequently, both the cup AND sauce broke.

That's my Beta Geek.

[Alassante]

Space's new nickname is "Or something like that" cause she said it so many times in my beta session.

[Rous]

I have to join the ranks of the no funny betas. My first one was very cut and dried, which is really what I needed. But, when she did choose to make comments, they were usually pointing the plot in a different direction than I wanted it to go. Then suddenly, she dropped off the face of the earth. (I must be very hard to beta for. That, or my stories are excruciatingly boring.)
My current beta is a little looser, but still not funny. And, I believe she went off in search of the first beta. Am I that hard to get along with?

[Alassante]

Good betas are difficult to find and keep. I my current beta, Elliska. (so stay away from her....grrrrrr ) but then again I was blessed with great betas before her as well (and good authors - Haleth, Space, Viv, SLM, and Ghetto). I am still good friends with them all, they just got busy and didn't have time to do it anymore. I don't know how Elliska manages cause she works and has a bunch of stories going on but she is fast and good. Right now I have had to search out other betas while she is sleeping off an illness. Its tough....I feel lost without her. But the two betas (Delynn and Rhapsody) that are helping us are good and fast too so I can't complain.

My newest beta comment was on a combined thing with Ghetto where Elliska said "You and Ghetto working on a story is like the blind leading the blind when it comes to punctuation since neither one of you know what a damn period is."

Gotta love it though. And her comments on smut make me lmao.

[Annamire]

My sister and twin are my betas. My sister is adopted so she's actually the same age as my twin and I.

Anyways, my sister is always drilling crap into my head so when I finally get it (it being whatever I'm struggling with at the time. Usually commas in dialogue) she give me a cookie, hug and a "I'm so proud of you! You did it!" with a high-pitched squeal.

Now my sister isn't a very touchy feely person and hates it when I do high pitched excited squeals, so it's funny to see her do that.

[mistressofbucklebury]

Had to post today.

Poor Ghetto I really do feel sorry for her betaing me sometimes...

[ghettoelleth]

Ya Stinker!

Man, Its been a long long time since I've been outted in here, that was a shocker.

[mistressofbucklebury]

[Alassante]

Gosh I haven't outted a beta in awhile so its about time. Beta's are the funniest when they beta smut ya know?

Space beta'd me via IM and these were some comments during the smut part -
~Her:"Never thought i'd ever say this, but 'comma after a**'."
Her: comma after breasts please
Me: commas after breasts and a** - got it
Her:yeah well how d'you think it is having to look at this stuff from a purely grammatical point of view?
Her: 'Yes, i think your description of the (censored) is lacking in gerunds'

~*sigh* comma after 'thighs' please. So that's a**, breasts and thighs, so far. I shudder to think where the next one will go.


No beta thread on smut would be complete without Ghetto's contributions-
~Wasn’t a random nipple flying about the room.

~What is he? A f'ing fish????


And, of course, allow me to finish off the episode of "My Three Beta's" with Elliska
~Chica are you asking me if I could beta read another chap of Paradox? One that starts out with two sexy Elves in a sword fight? And one of those Elves is Thranduil?! And the very first image I get to read about is Thranduil taking off his shirt?! You think you have to ask me to read that?!

~This sounds like tab a into slot b.


I have to laugh though 'cause after Elliska complained I didn't use periods, I went from being a comma-aholic to just not using them at all.

Now I better go hide before they all three to decide that my grammar and punctuation offensives are worthy of death. Oh that and the fact I just outted them on here again. But I only do it cause I love them!!

[ghettoelleth]

Oh, you're lucky, at least when you and Space get together, the comments are easily comprehended.

I don't think anyone will ever understand the inherent hilarity of, "Whereupon Daeron began to sing, "Her name was Lola." But he was sore perplexed for he did not remember anything past, she was a showgirl."

I know, you're all going

Trust me, there's nothing like an ancient bard singing sexy chunes to two bound, naked orcs in the mines of moria....swear...nothing like it at all.

[SpaceWeavil]

You're all making this stuff up. I dunno what you're talking about.

[ghettoelleth]

Speeshes latest to me:

"Every time you use the phrase, 'began to,' a fairy dies!"

[Alassante]

Vlad is now being outed!!

"At least, I'm assuming he didn't yell out his own name. He doesn't seem quite that narcissistic."

"Not needed unless her eyes have run off somewhere, in which case he has bigger problems than her approval."