beta request and randomness

[salixbabylon]

Bored? Got some time on your hands? Want to make me happy?

All 12 11 6 4 of those fics I posted in the last week need to be proof-read by somebody, with an eye for typos and commas. All are around 1000-2000 words, so you already know what you're getting into. Any volunteers, please?

ETA: helena_s_renn stepped up and did a bunch of them.

The ones that still need a read-through are: Harry's Favorite Sandwiches, Naughty Padawans, Promises in the Dark, and Why Harry and Ron Were Late.

Pretty please?

Random thoughts:

1) It's very amusing to me that I got multiple requests for threesomes, first-times, leather, and on-his-knees/submission. Not that those aren't my own personal kinks too (quite the opposite in fact, which makes it even more funny), but that the widespread shared-kink mentality amuses me. Apparently most of my friends are a bunch of very deviant women.

Damn, I love having a crowd I finally fit into. ;)

2) Writing twelve fics in about two weeks really highlights all the words and phrases and set-ups that I over-use and abuse. I am sick to death of my writing style, of my long, conversational run-on sentences, and my massive abuse of italicization. I don't ever want to write again.

On the other hand, I want to finally fucking finish that VS sequel next month. For reals this time.

Blech. Perhaps I will take my writing problems to the writer's clinic for some advice...

Comments

[helena-s-renn.livejournal.com]

you still need help? i'm volunteering. tell me what needs to be done.

[salixbabylon.livejournal.com]

OMG - thank you, thank you, thank you! All of the fics but the Torchwood one need proofed, so choose whatever one(s) you're interested in. Just give them a read and either email or comment with typos or other glaring errors - anything from grammar to weird sentences that took too long to parse to forgetting something vital during the p0rn. I'm not looking for perfection, per se, just another set of eyes to give it a once-over before I crosspost and embarrass myself.

And I know I have a comma problem. *sigh* It's your call how many you want to bother telling me to add/subtract and fair warning that I might disagree. ;)

[helena-s-renn.livejournal.com]

did one more tonight, will get to more tomorrow. let me know if anyone has worked any of the others so we don't double up. thanks!

[salixbabylon.livejournal.com]

Whooo! OMG you are the best. I will owe you another ficlet by the end of this. ;)

I've had two other volunteers but they haven't told me which ones they want to edit or anything yet, so... *shrug* No doubling up as of yet.

Also - you are awesome. Did I mention that? *smooch*

[salixbabylon.livejournal.com]

seanlily offered to do "Definitely a Thing", FYI.

*smooch*

[elfscribe5.livejournal.com]

"Damn, I love having a crowd I finally fit into."

Yep, we are a pervy bunch. Thanks again for the Xmas fic. Loved it.

[salixbabylon.livejournal.com]

I love us! Widespread as we may be, it's still nice to have a community of friends where you can ask for a custom kinky story with your favortie boys being perverts. ;)

[molly-millions.livejournal.com]

What is left over? I love to proofread! :D Count me in, just tell me whar remains unchecked.

[salixbabylon.livejournal.com]

I've listed all of the to-be-done fics in the ETA comment - feel free to read/proof as few or as many as you like.

Helena left me a comment for each fic she did with instructions like this: //paragraph 3, line 2 - delete comma "sincerly, tried"// and etc. If that works for you, great - if not, send me an email. :)

*smooch*