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Midnight Rant of a Beta
JennyC:
I have to say that I am really intrigued to find out which fandom the story is based in. Hmmm…sounds like "King Arthur", but do they have bomb at the time?
Don’t tell us. Just leave more bread crumb for us to follow, and maybe one of these days we can crack the code ;D.
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: JennyC on June 13, 2006, 06:42:08 pm ---I have to say that I am really intrigued to find out which fandom the story is based in. Hmmm…sounds like "King Arthur", but do they have bomb at the time?
Don’t tell us. Just leave more bread crumb for us to follow, and maybe one of these days we can crack the code ;D.
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Never let a certain time period restrict you in your writing. After all, in the movie 'The Two Towers' (from Lord of the Rings), Saruman most certainly came up with gunpowder and a bomb. :)
Jeff
[BIG sigh] I want to just stop, ship this garbage back to her and tell her a) to start over or b) that a two part story is perfectly fine, she doesn't have to make it a trilogy. :P
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: injest on July 08, 2006, 01:04:11 am ---Oh my God....I wonder if this is why I never heard back from MY beta after that third story....
hey, at least I kept mine SHORT...a few paragraphs...and I have had nothing but good comments...but maybe I drove her nuts too!!!
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Heh...no telling. ;D Just kidding, if you got good comments from your beta and the readers of your story didn't kill it with their reviews, I'm sure your writing was just fine.
I finished beta'ing the story by my writer's deadline and sent it back to her, dripping red, prefacing the document with a 'I hope you're not too discouraged..." comment. She wrote back that it took her a day to get the courage to open up the document.
A few days later she wrote to ask if I thought she should continue.
I was pretty torn about answering her because this 3rd manuscript was pretty much garbage...but she's pulled some pretty bad stuff out before and I know I would be the one to beta it, so I told her the truth, pretty much suggested a compression of many plotlines and to go back to the drawing board.
She's a young mother and was depressed this story had taken her 3 years to write, but I reminded her that it took Heller 10 years to write his next novel after his first.
Don't think she found that encouraging. :P
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: injest on July 08, 2006, 02:08:17 pm ---Fiction is HARD.
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It sure is. If I, as a writer, don't believe what I write, no one else will, either.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: injest on July 09, 2006, 01:07:06 pm ---So if you are not writing fanfic but just reg where would you find a beta??
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Aren't they called "editors" elsewhere?
--- Quote ---PS WRANGLER, sweetie, dear heart, POST something somewhere!! you are at 666 not supposed to stop there it is unlucky!!
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... Maybe that's why I didn't get laid last night. ... :o
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