is when a writer posts her fic, and I go to read it, and I see SPaG errors I should have caught the first time.

::siigh::

Yay, temporarily caught up on all beta activities! I'm talking rivertempest's yet-to-be-posted Snupin, teddyradiator's Labour of Love, and even the long-running fic I've been editing since May, which posts over on Granger Enchanted.

Speaking of behind-the-scenes work, I've been accepted as a validator at Hawthorn and Vine, in their K thru PT department. This is my first ( Read more... )

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Help a girl out here! Somewhere, not too long ago, I saw a tongue-in-cheek article listing the Most Overused Words in fan fiction. I meant to read it, but then I must have blithely surfed away, and now I can't remember where I saw it. It might have been attached to a site's submission rule page.

Ring any bells? Can you help me find it again?

First of all, you haven't seen all of majorjune's wonderful Halloween-themed icons, you're missing out. Hie thee over and snag a few. Thank you kindly, majorjune!

I think I accidentally committed myself to one too many beta projects over the next few weeks. There are three active ones on my desktop, plus one I volunteered for through hp_betas that hasn't shown up in ( Read more... )

So, I took the quiz all you cool kids posted today, and got some pretty remarkable results. Anyone who's had me as their beta can attest to the evil truth ...


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Pop Quiz (10 points): Why did stgulik sign up to beta for the upcoming hp_3forfun big bang?

a) She needs more to do because her family sees too much of her in the evenings.
b) She's a perpetual optimist when it comes to time-management.
c) The mod was, like, scary-persuasive ...
d) She secretly craves some new triadfic.
e) All of the above.
 Signing up ( Read more... )

Good morning. Amazingly sleepy. My head is still swimming with beta dreams. Whenever I do beta work right before bedtime, I have beta dreams, which are like regular dreams, except for several major differences ( Read more... )

Thanks to darklotus1211, who referred me to a relevant link, I wrote to Granger Enchanted to inquire about the beta requirements. At first, I asked to take their exam. Investigating further, however, I found they claim to let you just register on the site if you already have accreditation from Perfect Imagination.

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Got an email this morning from Perfect Imagination, the beta-testing site, reporting its own shutdown. They'd closed the site to new people looking to become accredited betas, so it's not a complete surprise, but I'm still sad. Without a site like this, it will be hard for non fanfic-writing betas like myself to prove their creds and get "work."

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