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Yavanie
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 Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 6:45 pm Post subject: Need a beta I'm not married to |
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Okay, my wonderful beta so far has been Rocheron. The technogeek has been great with the ideas and catch the grammar stuff I miss, usually. However, it's the formatting and ideas type stuff I need help with.
I've written research papers and presentations and all kinds of other documents. This is my first foray into fiction. Familiarity with the virtual village would be welcome as this is obviously gonna deviate from cannon. That said, My oc's background I am trying to keep to cannon, so Sil knowledge would be helpful but by no means required.
I'd love to lean on my fellow V V writers, but I feel really guilty as I know they are working hard on their own stories, soooo....
any volunteers???
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NeumeIndil
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I'm just starting a VV fic and beta'd Ghetto's backstory. I've copy edited professionally and would be willing to give it a read if you'd like. You can send it to the email in my profile an PM me with questions. I have AIM too; you might catch me there.
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ghettoelleth
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| Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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And you will never ever fall asleep while going over her corrections cuz you'll be laughing to damn hard.  She's great for the funny aside, not that her corrections are funny. Why do I feel the need to clarify everything today? I'll bet a million dollars you guys got that without the disclaimer. 
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Alassante
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| Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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| ghettoelleth wrote: | | And you will never ever fall asleep while going over her corrections cuz you'll be laughing to damn hard. She's great for the funny aside, not that her corrections are funny. Why do I feel the need to clarify everything today? I'll bet a million dollars you guys got that without the disclaimer. |
Huh?
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NeumeIndil
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Yeah, I make additional "reader" comments, not just "editor" comments, so you get funny inserts like "LMAO" etc. as well as "Wait, who's he talking to?" kinds of things.
As for Ghetto, well, who can explain her really? She's just one in a million.
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ghettoelleth
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My fave comment to date....
Uhm, wrong elf, dear. 
Sorry Ya, returning your thread to its original upright position. 
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NeumeIndil
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What was funnier than "Uhm, wrong elf, dear" was the look on my face for the 5 minutes it took me to figure out that it was, indeed, the wrong elf and Belen wasn't going at it with Feanor in the library with the candlestick. Ok, wait, I got distracted there somewhere. Eh. You probably get it anyway.
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Alassante
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| Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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| NeumeIndil wrote: | Yeah, I make additional "reader" comments, not just "editor" comments, so you get funny inserts like "LMAO" etc. as well as "Wait, who's he talking to?" kinds of things.
As for Ghetto, well, who can explain her really? She's just one in a million. |
I was blessed because my first three betas were hysterical. Things my betas have said to me (I know this cause I found the thread where we talked about this:
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Sounds self-kinky.
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Dude, they just *saved* her and hauled her
unconscious carcass all the way back to her home.
I want to pop her upside the head right now.
You'd think a thousand-year-old creature could
be a little more gracious.
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I'm-immmortal-and-you're-not angst.
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She seems very concerned with people touching her.
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Next time, read the fecker before you send it to me,
I almost got a brain seizure trying to figger it out
before I gave up.
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Girl, fix yer feckin tenses, are you talking past or
present? Send it back when you’re done so I can
beta this paragraph.
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"Fix this last sentence, don’t make no sense chica."
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Sorry, but he’s lost it now, gentle my ass, and
I better not see this f*cker in the hug my beta
thread
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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.
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My OFC says to Eomer - perhaps you have a little
elf in you as well.
So beta types in "Whereupon he replies, have
you got a bit of Rohirrim in you? No? Would you
like to?"
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So then she is beta'ing late at night, she thinks
"breathing quicken" is "breathing chicken".
Here is that thread - it is so funny re-reading it again.
http://www.openscrolls.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1406&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
I would have to add some new ones to it now from my newest funny beta.
I am trying to concentrate on proofreading, but
I just have to comment—damn I could do with
a beach full of naked elves right now. Love the
image in my head after reading this.
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The naked elf quickly lay down beside her on the
beach(wait—face down or face up? Inquiring
minds need to know to make the fantasy work
I vote for face up)
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I have to say it: what a prick!
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I say again, what a prick!!
Betas are wonderful if you get lucky like me.
Mucho Love to my betas including the one who I
know is probably reading this. 
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NeumeIndil
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Yeah, that's the kind of crap Ghetto got out of me. I didn't realize that was anything more than my own insanity. You mean more people are this weird?!?!?!?!?  Sweeeeeeeeeet!
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 7:25 am Post subject: |
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| Alassante wrote: | Betas are wonderful if you get lucky like me.
Mucho Love to my betas including the one who I
know is probably reading this. |
Beta'ing your stuff is fun to do, Al. And I do want a beach full of naked elves, but you already gave me one so.... 
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ghettoelleth
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 9:56 am Post subject: |
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| NeumeIndil wrote: | | Yeah, that's the kind of crap Ghetto got out of me. I didn't realize that was anything more than my own insanity. You mean more people are this weird?!?!?!?!? Sweeeeeeeeeet! |
And the topper is Neume, half of that shit Al has on her list is mine. LMAO
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NeumeIndil
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Great buzz kill Ghetto. Like I needed that.
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