I'm a nerd!

[brandogirl]

So I'm thinking, if people are interested, I may occasionally do LJ entries about grammar rules and how I remember them. Because I have to remember so many of them, every day, and I certainly don't remember them in the way they taught me in English class (hell if I know what half the parts of speech are called). I just know what sounds right. :P So

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[chasingvertigo]

:D yeah. take some of the load off my back. though i don't beta for anyone. just in case you read something & hit a mistake (because i never make mistakes, obv ;))

but i think this is great! i love reading how diff people approach grammar :D DOOO IT!

[brandogirl]

I've decided, I definitely will. I just haven't time to do one up yet. :)

I don't beta either, just 'cause I don't think I'd be able to do it in a timely manner that the writer would deserve. I'd be feeling guilty *all* the time.

But I'm always open for questions or requests. :)

[chasingvertigo]

i used to beta quite a bit. but i take a long time to, & that was before uni got psychopathic :(

yeah, i'll do short pieces on request. like the one anda (breejalil; that's my nickname for her) just upped. it's all grammar, though. watching for consistency makes me take even longer :D

hm. this makes me think - maybe we should think about setting up a beta page on TWA...

:P

[brandogirl]

That's not a bad idea (a beta page), especially if it's just people wanting some quick help for something short (like breejalil's, which I fully intend to read because it's about zombies, and I love that game! lol). Maybe it'll help people be more likely to post things, after they've gotten a confidence boost from a beta.

[chasingvertigo]

nodnod. i think you're right, about the confidence boost. it'd also up the quality of writing :) well, grammatically. & if people wanted to beta entire stories, they could do that, too. we'd have to have a standard for betas, though. people must know what they're doing.

*wheels churn brains in head*

i'll def run this by the other mods. we have serious talking to do anyway.

if it safe to say you're on the list of betas?

[brandogirl]

Sure, you can put me down for that. Though if you have "preferred types," I'd be under shorter. lol. Though I guess a longer one would be okay if the writer was *really* slow. :D

Actually, you could do a system similar to FP's, where the beta-possibles can put what kind/genres of stories they're interested in, etc.

[chasingvertigo]

exactly what i was thinking! great minds, great minds. :D

i'd prob make a condensed form for people to fill. those fp ones were all over the place. i had one up, but i took it down because there were too many requests. i have enough trouble beta-ing one thing! guh, & i thought no one ever went to my profile anymore.

do you know if they ever made the list of betas more organized? i haven't looked since i stopped taking requests, but i know in the beginning it was just a list of pen names. which is ridic.

[brandogirl]

I'm not sure. I don't know when you did it. I looked at it in the middle of last year when my friend who usually reads was on hiatus and I needed a beta. I want to say you could sort by genre, but once you got in there it was just a list of names. I had to click through a bunch until I found one that caught my interest.

[chasingvertigo]

yuppers. i want to avoid the list as much as possible. one thing that'll help is there def won't be as many people, though :) i think i shall get people to PM me a form if they're interested & i'll see if i can organize something from that info :)