Would anyone be interested in doing a beta on a a very short, not very explicit, femslash Mean Girls piece? No real rush on it, just sometime this week? I've sent it to one beta, but I always like a couple of eyes on it.

thestalkycop says: Want a shiny thing?
thestalkycop says: (Why does that sound like a really dodgy chat-up line ( Read more... )

jeddy83 writes about betas who rip the stories to shreds and why that doesn't work, and here was my response:

This idea is what makes me shy away from finding new betas when I enter a new fandom (and ultimately, what makes me take so long to write in any new fandom, no matter how long I've been reading in it); not your idea, but the "ripping to shreds" ( Read more... )

jeddy83 writes about betas who rip the stories to shreds and why that doesn't work, and here was my response:

This idea is what makes me shy away from finding new betas when I enter a new fandom (and ultimately, what makes me take so long to write in any new fandom, no matter how long I've been reading in it); not your idea, but the "ripping to shreds" ( Read more... )