1. Pen Name: HanaHeart ( Read more... )

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Happy Holidays, all. Hoping, however you celebrate them, you enjoy a peaceful, lovely time. Fending off much snow here, but that's not unusual ( Read more... )

I was in a chatroom the other day for nanowrmo and the subject of tense and some of the more obscure classifications of tenses came up. Most of us were English majors and thought we knew this stuff pretty well. However, I decided to do some research and I found a site that totally blew my mind. I admit, it's been a long time since I was in college ( Read more... )

I was wondering how other betas work on their documents. Do you go through a story and automatically fix the little things like adding commas, simple misspellings and other easy fixes? Or do you pretty much note all of the errors and let the author make the changes? I've often found so many little mistakes that it was easier to just fix them, but ( Read more... )

I had another question for you all. Have you ever beta'd for two different people who have fics entered in the same fest? I had someone ask the other day and I had already done one for someone and didn't feel comfortable about having them both in the same competition, so I told her I was not able to do that one. How do you feel about it? It almost ( Read more... )

So okay, I've been beta-ing for about three years and for much of that time it has been mostly in the gen-fic genre. Since becoming more active in the LJ comms I have noticed some differences in the writing skills. What I notice most is that people are writing for fests, exchanges and challenges most of the time. This is different than on the ( Read more... )

 Hi all! I've been beta reading for a few years, but I'm fairly new to LJ. I noticed that there hasn't been much discussion on the site for a long time. Wondering if anyone is still around to chat a bit about beta reading? I've talked with a couple of other betas, but other than that just pretty much been on my own. It'd be good to bounce a few ( Read more... )

We are currently seeking betas for the aiw_big_bang .  This is a fanfic/art challenge that seeks to encourage writers to create quality, novella length, new fanfic inspired by Alice in Wonderland, as well as to encourage artists to create outstanding art to accompany those fics.  The resulting works are then released together in a big bang.  We have ( Read more... )