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[PadawanCyn]

Lady Sedia Auvryarn

milila

I hate math >_<

who doesn't lol 3nodding

and yay finally got the first part of my Talespin fic finished, typed up, and ready for editing....ugh I hate editing xd

How can you two say that? Math = heart
Where else do you have "magical" formulas that solve every problem that stands in your way?

Good luck editing! *waves like she expects to never see Sedia again...* XD

[Lady Sedia Auvryarn]

PadawanCyn

Lady Sedia Auvryarn

milila

I hate math >_<

who doesn't lol 3nodding

and yay finally got the first part of my Talespin fic finished, typed up, and ready for editing....ugh I hate editing xd

How can you two say that? Math = heart
Where else do you have "magical" formulas that solve every problem that stands in your way?

Good luck editing! *waves like she expects to never see Sedia again...* XD

ha ha twisted wink

actually editing doesn't take me long at all if I got everything worded the right way the first time but with this I know I didn't lol I would send it to my beta after I do my own editing but she has been so busy lately that she still has like 4 stories of mine to read sweatdrop

[milila]

I get to write today YAHOO. ^_^ It's the weekend, so whats everyone up to?

[Lady Sedia Auvryarn]

working xd four hours today, all day tomorrow...but when its slow I get to read so its not all bad

[terradi]

Does everyone in here actually have a beta? My best friend and I take turns playing editing b***h for one another but it's not really the same thing, since it's mostly us just working on the same storyline when we're motivated.

[White Rabbit Redux]

I've been going to the hospital to visit my friend, so I've nay time to work on my fic.

[milila]

terradi

Does everyone in here actually have a beta? My best friend and I take turns playing editing b***h for one another but it's not really the same thing, since it's mostly us just working on the same storyline when we're motivated.

I have a Beta, who I prefer, over my other friends and family, because she isn't such an editing b***h. I give stuff to my friend to edit, and I will use a whole trees worth of paper rewriting, and editing. Hell she corrects her correction >_<.

[PadawanCyn]

terradi

Does everyone in here actually have a beta? My best friend and I take turns playing editing b***h for one another but it's not really the same thing, since it's mostly us just working on the same storyline when we're motivated.

I don't have a beta. I don't know anyone in real life who could do that for me and whenever I tried getting one online, it never worked out. So I gave up wasting time trying to get one and started using it to do some actual writing. I'm a compulsive editor anyway, haha. I can spend up to a year revising the same 1000 words and still not be satisfied. blaugh

[Lady Sedia Auvryarn]

PadawanCyn

terradi

Does everyone in here actually have a beta? My best friend and I take turns playing editing b***h for one another but it's not really the same thing, since it's mostly us just working on the same storyline when we're motivated.

I don't have a beta. I don't know anyone in real life who could do that for me and whenever I tried getting one online, it never worked out. So I gave up wasting time trying to get one and started using it to do some actual writing. I'm a compulsive editor anyway, haha. I can spend up to a year revising the same 1000 words and still not be satisfied. blaugh

haha sounds like me on the last bit 3nodding but I do have a beta friend who is really great cause she covers everything, story/plot/characters as well as grammar/spelling biggrin

[terradi]

PadawanCyn

terradi

Does everyone in here actually have a beta? My best friend and I take turns playing editing b***h for one another but it's not really the same thing, since it's mostly us just working on the same storyline when we're motivated.

I don't have a beta. I don't know anyone in real life who could do that for me and whenever I tried getting one online, it never worked out. So I gave up wasting time trying to get one and started using it to do some actual writing. I'm a compulsive editor anyway, haha. I can spend up to a year revising the same 1000 words and still not be satisfied. blaugh

Oh wow. I often just write things once. I'm horrible about editing. Which is probably why my punctuation suffers so. I'll go back and read things a year or so after I've written them though and I can see the difference then. It makes me wince. One of these days, when I get motivated enough, I'll start in on the stuff I started when I was sixteen and really make it shine. I know I need to, and I know I can. I just lack the motivation.

Ah well. Maybe working on the fanfic I started three or four years ago will help with that. I know it reads and looks better already. smile Plot's improving in plausibility too.

[Lady Sedia Auvryarn]

terradi

PadawanCyn

terradi

Does everyone in here actually have a beta? My best friend and I take turns playing editing b***h for one another but it's not really the same thing, since it's mostly us just working on the same storyline when we're motivated.

I don't have a beta. I don't know anyone in real life who could do that for me and whenever I tried getting one online, it never worked out. So I gave up wasting time trying to get one and started using it to do some actual writing. I'm a compulsive editor anyway, haha. I can spend up to a year revising the same 1000 words and still not be satisfied. blaugh

Oh wow. I often just write things once. I'm horrible about editing. Which is probably why my punctuation suffers so. I'll go back and read things a year or so after I've written them though and I can see the difference then. It makes me wince. One of these days, when I get motivated enough, I'll start in on the stuff I started when I was sixteen and really make it shine. I know I need to, and I know I can. I just lack the motivation.

Ah well. Maybe working on the fanfic I started three or four years ago will help with that. I know it reads and looks better already. smile Plot's improving in plausibility too.

yay good to hear things are improving!! I did that with my very first fanfic, came back and started improving it....but then I got so caught up on the details that I still have yet to actually write anything lol even though it is so much better now sweatdrop

good luck with your cleaning up hehe

[PadawanCyn]

terradi

Oh wow. I often just write things once. I'm horrible about editing. Which is probably why my punctuation suffers so. I'll go back and read things a year or so after I've written them though and I can see the difference then. It makes me wince. One of these days, when I get motivated enough, I'll start in on the stuff I started when I was sixteen and really make it shine. I know I need to, and I know I can. I just lack the motivation.

Ah well. Maybe working on the fanfic I started three or four years ago will help with that. I know it reads and looks better already. smile Plot's improving in plausibility too.

Like Lady Sedia said - best of luck! It's certainly not an easy task you set yourself up to do.

I should probably do the same. I still think my first fics had some good ideas in them, but they're so full of common-places and loaded with mistakes that just reading them makes me shudder in embarrassment. It's a lot easier to let them lie in the corner and calmly ignore them as they collect dust, haha. Maybe this is where a beta-reader would come in handy?

From your experience, what do you guys think - how invaluable is it to have a beta-reader?

[milila]

I'm back. Sorry I haven't posted, but I had to go to a funeral in L.A.. I missed my computer so much crying .

[Lady Sedia Auvryarn]

milila

I'm back. Sorry I haven't posted, but I had to go to a funeral in L.A.. I missed my computer so much crying .

funeral bad evil computer good rofl

PadawanCyn

terradi

Oh wow. I often just write things once. I'm horrible about editing. Which is probably why my punctuation suffers so. I'll go back and read things a year or so after I've written them though and I can see the difference then. It makes me wince. One of these days, when I get motivated enough, I'll start in on the stuff I started when I was sixteen and really make it shine. I know I need to, and I know I can. I just lack the motivation.

Ah well. Maybe working on the fanfic I started three or four years ago will help with that. I know it reads and looks better already. smile Plot's improving in plausibility too.

Like Lady Sedia said - best of luck! It's certainly not an easy task you set yourself up to do.

I should probably do the same. I still think my first fics had some good ideas in them, but they're so full of common-places and loaded with mistakes that just reading them makes me shudder in embarrassment. It's a lot easier to let them lie in the corner and calmly ignore them as they collect dust, haha. Maybe this is where a beta-reader would come in handy?

From your experience, what do you guys think - how invaluable is it to have a beta-reader?

yeah like I said!!! xd

and I find that having someone beta for me is really helpful because I don't care who you are, no one can catch all the spelling/grammar mistakes they make in their own writing. A fresh set of eyes is a big help with that. Also having someone who knows the story, plot, and characters for writings that are chapters long is wonderful! People don't like to hear they messed up writing their own characters but when my beta tells me I don't think such and such character would do this because...I really listen. I might know that the character is eventually capable of doing such a thing but the reason why hasn't been made clear yet and something like that could potentially give away big plot secrets so I am forever grateful when my beta points stuff like that out to me 3nodding

[PadawanCyn]

milila

I'm back. Sorry I haven't posted, but I had to go to a funeral in L.A.. I missed my computer so much crying .

Welcome back! You didn't miss much around here, lol. whee
Hope you're doing okay, though.