Comments | amireal: Visit to an angry planet, revisited.

amireal

Visit to an angry planet, revisited.

Feb 21, 2006 21:09

So there's apparently a lot of negativity attached to this post. Which I understand, I was a really angry person for a lot of reasons when I wrote that.

So as a result I was probably not as clear as I could have been.

Right here:

3. DO NOT SUGGEST REVISING MY BETA PROCESS. Even if in reality the author might need to, many just had bad weeks. My ( Read more... )

frothy rage

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wetdryvac February 22 2006, 07:41:08 UTC

*grins ( ... )

mecurtin February 22 2006, 23:31:17 UTC

I can't read the linked post, and I don't really hold with anonymous concrit, so I'm commenting here ( ... )

amireal February 23 2006, 00:00:39 UTC

The post ended up filtered because SOME people felt I shouldn't you know, use my LJ to vent. That's another story.

First of all, I guess I tend to pick those themes because I feel others give them short shrift or don't deal with thme in a realistic manner. It's sort of a challenge I guess.

It's not so much that I don't notice tiny errors, or don't know the rules, it's that my fingers have this muscle memory that's hard to get over. (As for LJ I'm often posting at oh god thirty at night and well-- no brains for more than your basic expression of thought).

Here's the thing: I do wait for revisions. I do use people who copy edit for a living or just a helluva a lot in other more complex fandoms (the ones that are set in historical England are notorious) but it's been-- a couple of things. Some of it is notoriouos bad luck/bad weeks for all concerned.

I have made a resolution that for the next story I finish, I shall send ouot, edit and then send out againCoping Mechanisms, Physics, Quarks and one of two of the smaller ones published ( ... )

wetdryvac February 23 2006, 10:05:54 UTC

"Distracted by the pretty"

*laughs*

"I was fine, I was fine, I got distracted by the pretty, I fell in the pool."

One of my friends is no longer allowed to walk near the bathing area when the volleyball game is on.

mecurtin February 24 2006, 23:09:35 UTC

First of all, I guess I tend to pick those themes because I feel others give them short shrift or don't deal with thme in a realistic manner.

And I absolutely love that. That and the handholding thing, which is as big a kink for me as it seems to be for you.

Speaking of things given short shrift, the only element I really felt was missing from "Lesser War" was Teyla & Ronon's reaction(s). McShep writers almost always show Ronon & Teyla as accepting & tolerant of McShep to the point of yenta-hood (yenting?), but what if they weren't?

Along those lines, one thing I really like about the story is the way the reader knows Elizabeth's heart has been stomped a bit, but John never catches the clue -- because, let's face it, he never does.

But I honestly don't think that I'd use the word "many" at this point. Handfull at this point maybe? There are still enough (at least on the LJ copy) so that when I re-read it the other day (before posting the above comment) I was irritated. I think they're concentrated in Part 1, which increases the ( ... )

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