Purposefully posting this to my personal account even though it relates to ogsafehavenI'm working on the background & characters for my original story and pinging in the back of my head is the pov. Not only for the story but my writing style pov ( Read more... )

I'm expanding a short fic into a longer fic for a big bang and one of the chapters I can't figure out how to reference the original story without actually using the original story.

eta I think I figured out how I can do this. I can use the dialog because the rest brings up stuff I will have mentioned earlier in the story and i don't want to be

I'm editing a mpreg fic and was wondering...would a man go to an OB/GYN?

My thinking would be that the pregnant man would just see an obstetrician.

as I've been beta reading a lot more fics, I've noticed something that annoys me a bit (yes, I'm adding it to my list of things that fanfic authors do that annoy me). When Danny is written, he goes from "normal" to ranting at Steve, or at least it's written that ( Read more... )

I beta checking a chapter of a fic and while it's only the 2nd chapter, I wear this author is comma happy and anti-all other punctuation.

It's making my already present headache worse, but I'm determined to help this author because I like the simple story she has going.

ugh! someone asks for concrit and I give it, and they continue to make the same damn errors in future chapters/stories.

The errors aren't necessarily minor ones either. Misspelling a person's name or a city. Those are things that can be "jarring" to readers and I only point them out bc the author says they don't have a beta and they want concrit.

apparently I suck at research.

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giving writing tips to a relative novice writer. I have no idea if my tips are any good, but this person found me on FF.net and I'm so desperately trying to keep her from following so many of the writers on there.

So far, my favorite tip that I've given her is:

Word length is your choice. You don't want to fall into the habit of using words that ( Read more... )