Looking for a beta (plus random stuff)

[sid]

5,375 words on my Cam!trope fic. w00t! That adds another 1500 or so to what I added day before yesterday. And then I realized that I haven't lined up anyone to beta read it for me when it's completed.

The majority is done. Maybe another thousand words max? And it won't be due until Nov. 2nd. You can read all about the premise of the ficathon at cm_tropefic or cm_tropefic.

I selected Quantum Mirror as my trope. It's going to be R rated, and if you're at all interested in beta-ing, I can let you have more details before you commit. :-)

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I've been getting spam email from my own dreamwidth email account, with subject lines like: where have you been? when will we meet again?

I decided after 3 or 4 of those that they were creepy enough to do something about, so I blocked receipt. A little while ago I got one of those emails that you get when an email you sent doesn't go through? Except it was showing me the email that was blocked from reaching me. I may have blocked receipt too soon, sounds like things were about to get interesting - the subject line of this one was: have a concrete thing in pants!

Well, hopefully this will discourage the sender for good. *shrugs*

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I'm up at Dad's this week. We went to the Great Lakes Brew Fest on Saturday and had a wonderful time. He had such a good time that he fell trying to get into the car when it was time to go home. ;-) He didn't get hurt, though, and there were half a dozen people there instantly to help him up. We got lucky when we arrived, because the parking lot was roped off as being full, but an attendant saw Dad holding his Handicapped Parking thingie and went to see if there were any of those spots left. Wound up smack dab in front of the building we wanted.

Tonight there was a Fall Festival right across the street (we're half a block off a business district). Bought some stuff at the Farmer's Market (mostly things I won't eat, lol, although I did buy some garlic and sugar snap peas), sampled a few beers and carried some hot dogs back home with us for supper. Ooh, a link! I met the lady in pink who painted the little pumpkins. We talked about celery root, (right behind the painted pumpkins) but I couldn't bring myself to buy any. Be fun to try some one day, though. She said it's much more common in Europe than it is here.

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Back to writing? Or I might see if I can stream Castle online....

Comments

[scrollgirl]

How can you get spam from your own email account? Is this something you should report to Dreamwidth? Because I heard there were some LJs that got hacked. (Will try to find links.)

Go you on the Cam trope-fic! I haven't started yet, but I did read up on various types of amnesia. *g*

[sid]

I did report the spam to Dreamwidth, just to make sure that they were aware. They were. They didn't get too excited.

I've gotten emails in the past from my main email account, too. I have no idea how the spammers do it. It's harmless enough, as long as you don't open them or click on any links, I guess. These were just a little on the creepy side, you know?

I haven't written an original SG-1 amnesia!fic, yet! It's on my to-do list. :-) Go you!

[archersangel]

there's some kind of software (or something) that makes spam look like it coming from your own account

[sid]

So creepy. :-(

[melayneseahawk]

Alas, I have no time, otherwise I would.

[sid]

Well, as long as you try to make time to read the story when it's posted, I will excuse you. :-)

[gigerisgod]

overachiever.

iz jealous. and not just because you're rocking the cam trope story.

Great Lakes Brew Fest. sounds like fun.

glad your Dad was okay : )

[sid]

It was a scary moment! I climbed in the driver's side and sort of saw him disappear out of the corner of my eye and heard people exclaiming. It was his car, and he's not used to climbing in that side.

All them beers had nothing to do with it. ;-)

[gigerisgod]

"All them beers had nothing to do with it. ;-)"

oh, no, they never do. hee.

[kazbaby]

I suck at beta'ing but if you need an extra set of eyes on it, I'd love to volunteer my peepers. :D

*refuses to admit it's just cuz i'm a sucker for that trope*

[sid]

Cool! I think I suck at beta-ing, too, but I usually find myself contributing something. Your peepers are MINE. :-D

(Quantum Mirror!fic is one of the great things about this fandom, totally. Right up there with AMTDI.)

[kazbaby]

Whoohoo!

(and same with Unrealized Realities in Farscape, which is why my website is named for them. *giggle*)

[sid]

*two thumbs up* :-D

Oh, the possibilites! And I think I've got a dandy twist on the trope.

[jdjunkie]

I'll take a look, if you still need someone. No worries if you're sorted. :-)
Plus, betaing has the added bonus of taking me away from the ficathon story I haven't started yet. Heh.

[sid]

*hugs* More is better!

Definitely need to get back to my J/D story. I still haven't quite determined where it's going. That... would probably be a good thing to know, lol.

[delphia2000]

Bad timing for me too...that's NaNo month and I'm already starting to prepare with my added ML duties. But I'll read for sure when it's posted!

[sid]

Reading is love! I have so many J/D-only types in my circle that my Cam fics need all the love they can get. :-)

[amnellwyvern]

Don't you just love spam? *rolls eyes*

That Brew Fest sounds like fun!

[sid]

The spam is still coming. I got notice of another blocked email this afternoon. *sighs*

Yes, the Brew Fest is lots of fun. Just a great atmosphere of beer geeks being friendly and having a good time. And the beer is yummy, too. :-) (not that I sampled all 200+ kinds, but in general, lol.)

[theeverdream]

I can beta for certain things if you would like! Some info about me:

I am good with spelling and grammar - with the grammar part, I know what is technically correct, but I also know when breaking the rules can be effective and better, too. Basically if you want feedback on just misspellings and blatant grammatical errors I can do that, or could give more feedback if you wanted it on stuff like "does this part here flow and make sense".

I am not necessarily good with continuity issues - especially with Cam, there are episodes I haven't seen - and certain factual stuff I can point out if I know it's wrong but if I don't know then I obviously wouldn't know to say anything.

I used to be a copy editor but I have never betaed fanfic, so I guess it would all depend on what you want. (Maybe everybody looks for the same thing in a beta and I just don't know! I am clueless! But yours if you want me :-D )

[sid]

w00t! A dandy offer! :-)

I don't think there's anything in this story that would require much knowledge of the continuity of Cam's tenure on the show.

My most basic 'need' from a beta is for naughty typos and grammar errors to be spotted, and a step up from that would be advice on word choice when something pings as not-quite-right or something that could be improved upon.

Then would come things like you mentioned: flow and making sense, pacing, characterization. Plot holes(on the rare occasions that I HAVE a plot, lol). Basically I'll take a serious look at any advice I'm given and then do what seems right. :-)

Thank you for offering! I'm saving the email notification in my 'Writing' folder for future reference. Have to work on my J/D ficathon story before I can get back to finishing this Cam story up. *flails*

[theeverdream]

Oooh, sounds very cool :-D
You're on lj too, right? If you want to message me when you are ready I would get it on lj a bit quicker than here, but here works too.

[theeverdream]

(forgot to mention - it's the same name on lj)

[sid]

And I'm sidlj over there. :-)

[sid]

I'll save this notification, too, to remind me when the time comes. \o/

(You're okay with Cam/Daniel? I guess I should have asked that first of all. *g*)