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Oct. 14th, 2003 05:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reenkaFirstly... er.
I won't bother pasting the stupid code, but. When I put in my name into the Crush Meme thing, it said one (1) person had an "Ex-Crush" on me, with 0 current, public or sekrit. Heh. I uh... don't know whether I should be worried (I suck now!!1 >:O ...er) or just chalk it up to people being fickle and not serious (duh). I can understand no one having a crush, but it's... disconcerting, having it be 1 and an ex-crush at that. But. Yeah -.-
Um. My stance on it is-- the people whom -I- like, know I like them (and if you don't, you sucky sucky people, you've been ignoring everything I'd said for months in that case), and I -think- I know the feelings of anyone I care to know the feelings of. How's -that- for circular logic :D :D Fear me.
`Crush' implies a slight romantic element, I guess. I -really- doubt whoever said I was an ex-crush meant it had a romantic element, and if they did, I guess it's good it's gone. Crushes suck, and I should know >:D I try to kill them as soon as possible (er... in -myself-, I mean.) That said, just about everyone on my flist has more people crushing on them than I. Obviously I suck. Heh. I'm pondering whether to just say, I proclaim my public affection for "....well, okay, Ishuca&Silvia&Amalin&Sara&Maya" but that's prolly lame. And it's not the same as a crush 'cause they all know I ♥ them. So yeah. Stopping now.
Anyway.
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Today in particular I'm full of beta love (whose beta made my -week- ♥!), so it's a good time to wax sentimental as per Beta Appreciation Day.
I would hope that my betas know how much they mean to me, but it never hurts to tell. Anyone I'd asked or accepted beta's from, I basically trust the judgement of implicitly (not to mention have great personal affection for). I consider them a gift from above, just about, because while I know they'd understand pretty much exactly what I mean, they'd still pick up on things I didn't notice in my writing, which is a perfect arrangement as far as I'm concerned.
Actually, most of my stories haven't been beta'd. I'd always had Ishuca, but er. She would ask me whether I was serious enough about a fic to want it beta'd, and she'd said some fics just don't need them (I think?), so often enough I thought I wasn't really serious enough, so I didn't ask. And now she's on vacation.
Regardless, she's a wonderful, brilliant beta. She knows my style intuitively and is still unsentimentally critical of it when it deserves it, which doesn't mean I don't make her squee too (which is all I can possibly ask for). She hacks at my confusing run-on sentences, she critiques both story structure, content and characterization equally. Not to -mention- her comma-killing prowess, man. Ishuca is teh bomb, yo >:D Hee. Be very jealous. She's also a very good friend whom I adore, so basically she could say anything to me about a fic (even that it's `nice', horror of horrors), and I wouldn't take it personally.
That last goes for everyone who'd beta'd for me or agreed to in the near future--![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
monochromal, mistful (no words, man. no words. except THANK YOU, that is!!!11!1<3333), sistermagpie, addictedkitten & maybe lasultrix when she's free, hehehe. <3 I've been awfully lucky to have writers I respect so much agree to look over my stuff. It makes me really warm and fuzzy every time I remember it.
Much love ♥♥♥♥♥
EDIT - And btw, this OoTP pic bytwilightsorcery is so cool it -hurts- me. Hurts. o_0
I won't bother pasting the stupid code, but. When I put in my name into the Crush Meme thing, it said one (1) person had an "Ex-Crush" on me, with 0 current, public or sekrit. Heh. I uh... don't know whether I should be worried (I suck now!!1 >:O ...er) or just chalk it up to people being fickle and not serious (duh). I can understand no one having a crush, but it's... disconcerting, having it be 1 and an ex-crush at that. But. Yeah -.-
Um. My stance on it is-- the people whom -I- like, know I like them (and if you don't, you sucky sucky people, you've been ignoring everything I'd said for months in that case), and I -think- I know the feelings of anyone I care to know the feelings of. How's -that- for circular logic :D :D Fear me.
`Crush' implies a slight romantic element, I guess. I -really- doubt whoever said I was an ex-crush meant it had a romantic element, and if they did, I guess it's good it's gone. Crushes suck, and I should know >:D I try to kill them as soon as possible (er... in -myself-, I mean.) That said, just about everyone on my flist has more people crushing on them than I. Obviously I suck. Heh. I'm pondering whether to just say, I proclaim my public affection for "....
Anyway.
~~
Today in particular I'm full of beta love (whose beta made my -week- ♥!), so it's a good time to wax sentimental as per Beta Appreciation Day.
I would hope that my betas know how much they mean to me, but it never hurts to tell. Anyone I'd asked or accepted beta's from, I basically trust the judgement of implicitly (not to mention have great personal affection for). I consider them a gift from above, just about, because while I know they'd understand pretty much exactly what I mean, they'd still pick up on things I didn't notice in my writing, which is a perfect arrangement as far as I'm concerned.
Actually, most of my stories haven't been beta'd. I'd always had Ishuca, but er. She would ask me whether I was serious enough about a fic to want it beta'd, and she'd said some fics just don't need them (I think?), so often enough I thought I wasn't really serious enough, so I didn't ask. And now she's on vacation.
Regardless, she's a wonderful, brilliant beta. She knows my style intuitively and is still unsentimentally critical of it when it deserves it, which doesn't mean I don't make her squee too (which is all I can possibly ask for). She hacks at my confusing run-on sentences, she critiques both story structure, content and characterization equally. Not to -mention- her comma-killing prowess, man. Ishuca is teh bomb, yo >:D Hee. Be very jealous. She's also a very good friend whom I adore, so basically she could say anything to me about a fic (even that it's `nice', horror of horrors), and I wouldn't take it personally.
That last goes for everyone who'd beta'd for me or agreed to in the near future--
monochromal, mistful (no words, man. no words. except THANK YOU, that is!!!11!1<3333), sistermagpie, addictedkitten & maybe lasultrix when she's free, hehehe. <3 I've been awfully lucky to have writers I respect so much agree to look over my stuff. It makes me really warm and fuzzy every time I remember it. Much love ♥♥♥♥♥
EDIT - And btw, this OoTP pic by
twilightsorcery is so cool it -hurts- me. Hurts. o_0
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Date: 2003-10-15 10:55 am (UTC)you evil, evil, talented wench.
you know I want to force you to write an epic. Mmmmmmmhmmm. yes I do.
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Date: 2003-10-15 12:21 pm (UTC)you say that -now-, but actually, i -am- working on a novella, and i'll prolly be done in a month or two~:))
and if you want to see it/comment/anything, it's all yours, man :D :D :D
it's 80 pages now and will prolly be 100-120 when i'm done o_0
it's all... darkish and post-OoTP-ish, but it's got a happy ending(!hee) and an h/d development arc from zero to semi-hero :D :D
oh, and did i mention a -plot-??! it has a -plot-!! shocking.
heeeee. *evil cackles!!*
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Date: 2003-10-15 04:33 pm (UTC)*waves a lock of shiny hair in a menacing manner* (what... it's the only thing to hand...)
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Date: 2003-10-16 11:03 am (UTC)hee. i'm pretty mindless with all things shiny :))
but, er.... :-?
'cause like... you realize... it's got holes in it as of now, with notes like, "scene where snape explains goes here" :D
hee
there's about 8 holes as far as i can see, and then i'm done. so i figure like... 2-5 pages per hole (that sounds so wrong, but) and that's where i get the 20-40 pages to go estimate ^^
i guess i can show you everything 'til the first hole? or. eep?
i'm so non-linear, really. no one's really seen it yet but me :D :D
i dunno how to do it, 'cause like, throwing the whole 80+ thing on any beta would be wrong... so it's chaptered, and i guess the first 2-or-so chapters are done, maybe, but i haven't thought of it that way since i always assumed i'd add and revise and the length would change, but.
yes. which would you like? i was going to just tell you (and the two other people i heartlessly roped into looking at it) when i'm done, but you can have a look, holes and all, 'cause it's youuuuuu~:)
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Date: 2003-10-17 02:22 am (UTC)but, you know... don't want to rush you. Will be hysterically grateful for EPIC OF COOL whenever I get to see it.
and even helpful, really. Promise.