Looking for a beta reader (and other stuff)

[selenay]

I'm doing a bit of a reading blitz this week to get some stuff read before it has to go back to the library. Thankfully Fables and the Hawkeye and Mockingbird books that I have out are renewable (let's not discuss the insane number of books on my coffee table to be read from the library and the two holds that just came in) but I needed to get the three volumes of Ultimates read by Friday.

OK, please correct me if I'm wrong but...someone at Marvel took an idea that would seem far-fetched and weird in fanfic and actually wrote and published comics based on it, right? And people paid for it?

Wow. Seriously, wow.

Suddenly my marvel_bang plot looks positively sane.

Speaking of...does anyone on my f-list want to beta a fic with travel to alternate universes, super soldier serum gone wrong, vampire!Clint and a Clint/Couslon B-plot? Beta won't be needed in September :-D

Good news: I now have an outline and 850 words of chapter one written. Looking at the outline, it should definitely be over the 10,000 word minimum. Phew! Getting over the word minimum in these things always worries me, even when it's a lower one like 10,000.

I'm honestly surprised at myself for the outlining thing. I never do that. My writing is usually very much fly by the seat of my pants, hope that I figure out how to get to the ending I have in mind as I go, don't worry about anything beyond the next section or two. This fic is mapped out. There are brief synposes of each bit. I can move them around and add to them as I think of things, rather than hoping that I remembered that I wanted to do something particular when I get to it. This will either be brilliant or a process that I never follow again.

Comments

[fahrenheit-f430.livejournal.com]

What kind of beta? I do light (comma catch/spelling/tenses), medium (light+ logic holes) and intense (light+ logic holes+ consistencies and canon thwacking). Plus, I only do suggestions, I don't change the original file. That could be a problem with a longer fic as it'd effectively be parallel notes.

*removes professionalism hat; picks up pom poms*

You are doing awesomely. *\o/*

[selenay]

I was looking for what you'd classify as medium, I think :-D And a parallel set of notes, if it's doable, would be fine for me to work from - I tend to print and mark up longer fics when I'm editing and working on that with parallel notes is something I've done frequently over the years. If you don't mind, I will be checking in with you again when the first draft is done :-D

And the pom poms are much appreciated!

[fahrenheit-f430.livejournal.com]

If it's ok by you, it's fine by me. You can tell me what you need doing at draft time. :D

*ruffles pom poms*

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