~~reena does the happy-beta dance.
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reenkanow... this might be shocking...even offensive...
but i had to share my joy.
i..... i...... *dies*
i got my first betaed story...!
i submitted `charming' to the sugar quill (this is the offensive part), yes, because i'm a review slut, yes. and you know, they have this whole "you get a beta if you submit" deal... and....and... *cries again*
betas are god's gift to good little girls...! (like me).
she sent me back my story with corrections in red. i'm overwhelmed with joy. you may think it's silly, but i've never had a beta before...! except my english teachers, and that's just not the same.
i mean. grammar & sentence-structure mistakes (i can catch spelling stuff ok) are... a bother. i want to cry. this is beautiful. I WANT A BETA. *wails*
oh. to never have to spend the next week after finishing a story, weeding out typos. i don't use Word. i use notepad. *cries* i don't have Word and i don't want it. so. i mean. you can imagine. yes, i type fast. yes, typoland here i come. it's so beautiful...! the land of clear writing & plot advice beckons me, and lo, it is the gods' own land. *sigh* i'm picky. i don't want a beta unless they're better at grammar/clarity/plot-hole-spotting than me. and they have to sort of, see where i'm going, with my stuff, which doesn't happen all that much. but. i'll settle for sentence-structure and grammar trouble-shooting and... *cries* cute comments & giggling at my jokes.
yes, i'd rather have a beta than a SO, right now.
~~
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penelope_z amazes me. i live & i die for metaphor, i do.
``As gravity expires he can fly again, skeletal angel with chicken bone wings"
...
or perhaps that should be, live & swoon. metaphors own my soul.
i'm still struggling with the fact that i dig stories that disturb me, i am.
i used to read a lot of dark!duo and dark!heero stories, in the gundam wing fandom.
it didn't bother me. crack-addict-raverboi!duo? right on, been there, done that. ruthless-killer-with-no-heart!heero? every third story. it's just....
i don't want the potterverse to be all that similar to the gundam wing universes. in fact, in gundam wing, i liked AUs, with no war, and just the two boys and their issues. or, a war, but no gundams. i'm weird i guess.
normal existence as a 15/16-year-old is plenty angst and horror enough, lemme tell ya. you don't need drug addiction to be a complete basketcase, when you're a teenager and onwards, too. you don't need a war for your life to be in the balance every day.
you don't need death to be dying.
and that's the saddest thing of all, isn't it? the death and the war and the "evil" and "addiction" and "lust-mania" or whatever-- it's there all the time. you don't need to dwell on it that much, to have it pervade everything. i don't write dark stories, but i write stories with darkness in them. everything has darkness in it. everything is messed up. everyone bleeds, all the damn time. actual blood and death is overkill. yah, that's the sad part.
but i had to share my joy.
i..... i...... *dies*
i got my first betaed story...!
i submitted `charming' to the sugar quill (this is the offensive part), yes, because i'm a review slut, yes. and you know, they have this whole "you get a beta if you submit" deal... and....and... *cries again*
betas are god's gift to good little girls...! (like me).
she sent me back my story with corrections in red. i'm overwhelmed with joy. you may think it's silly, but i've never had a beta before...! except my english teachers, and that's just not the same.
i mean. grammar & sentence-structure mistakes (i can catch spelling stuff ok) are... a bother. i want to cry. this is beautiful. I WANT A BETA. *wails*
oh. to never have to spend the next week after finishing a story, weeding out typos. i don't use Word. i use notepad. *cries* i don't have Word and i don't want it. so. i mean. you can imagine. yes, i type fast. yes, typoland here i come. it's so beautiful...! the land of clear writing & plot advice beckons me, and lo, it is the gods' own land. *sigh* i'm picky. i don't want a beta unless they're better at grammar/clarity/plot-hole-spotting than me. and they have to sort of, see where i'm going, with my stuff, which doesn't happen all that much. but. i'll settle for sentence-structure and grammar trouble-shooting and... *cries* cute comments & giggling at my jokes.
yes, i'd rather have a beta than a SO, right now.
~~
penelope_z amazes me. i live & i die for metaphor, i do.``As gravity expires he can fly again, skeletal angel with chicken bone wings"
...
or perhaps that should be, live & swoon. metaphors own my soul.
i'm still struggling with the fact that i dig stories that disturb me, i am.
i used to read a lot of dark!duo and dark!heero stories, in the gundam wing fandom.
it didn't bother me. crack-addict-raverboi!duo? right on, been there, done that. ruthless-killer-with-no-heart!heero? every third story. it's just....
i don't want the potterverse to be all that similar to the gundam wing universes. in fact, in gundam wing, i liked AUs, with no war, and just the two boys and their issues. or, a war, but no gundams. i'm weird i guess.
normal existence as a 15/16-year-old is plenty angst and horror enough, lemme tell ya. you don't need drug addiction to be a complete basketcase, when you're a teenager and onwards, too. you don't need a war for your life to be in the balance every day.
you don't need death to be dying.
and that's the saddest thing of all, isn't it? the death and the war and the "evil" and "addiction" and "lust-mania" or whatever-- it's there all the time. you don't need to dwell on it that much, to have it pervade everything. i don't write dark stories, but i write stories with darkness in them. everything has darkness in it. everything is messed up. everyone bleeds, all the damn time. actual blood and death is overkill. yah, that's the sad part.
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Date: 2002-09-17 11:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-09-17 11:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-09-18 12:47 am (UTC)*i* believe you. you wouldn't believe what i can do to the word 'you'...
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Date: 2002-09-18 03:55 pm (UTC)i mean. at least it means you'll actually -read- my stories :D
and say something beyond. "yo. cool."
although, you know, that's nice.
i don't really know how people "do it", but.
um. i usually post first drafts staight to a) this journal b) ff.net or c) i can do something else if i figure out what~:)
today, my beta, tomorrow, the wooorld...!
plus. i'll be your minion if you'll be my minion ><;;
i'm nice like that :D