wherein Liz remixes like the wind and then requests a beta and/or fact-checker

[edenfalling]

After procrastinating for half of forever, I wrote and posted my remix today. I played around with using one or two different source ficlets -- to the point where I now have two nebulous "kinda maybe gonna write that someday" plot bunnies gamboling in the back of my brain, argh -- but in the end I went with my original idea. This is actually quite unusual for me and exchanges!

There's still a week before the collection goes live, and I'd like to have someone check my remix over for general "does it work as a story?" and "does it connect enough to the original fic?" purposes. Hmm. And also probably some real-world fact-checking of a type that I suspect several people on my flist are qualified to do. It's a short fic, and I can give more details via email or private message if you're interested.

Do not worry about not knowing my mystery canon of mysteriousness. I don't really need canon fact-checking. That part I can do perfectly well myself. *grin*

So um. Please help?

(And hey, I'm totally willing to look over anybody else's remix if you want another set of eyes! I'm not always in a great place for the kind of mental effort required for editing, but this week feels like a good one in that direction and I'm not half-bad at editing if I do say so myself.)

Comments

[mme_hardy]

I'm available.

e: You have my email, with the caveat that I may not know the canon.

[edenfalling]

Thank you! I have sent the file and a brief explanation of the questions I most need answered.

[rthstewart]

Congratulations! I am a terrible beta so you are best with someone who actually knows grammar. You've seen my comma usage. I got 2 remixes in and am very glad we have week for clean up. Again and this is the 3rd or 4th time, no one posted an exchange story for me. So, I'm kinda down about that.

[edenfalling]

Well, I flatter myself that I catch most of my own mechanical errors (spelling, punctuation, etc.), so while I never say no to typo-spotting, what I mostly ask from betas is a sort of general story-flow analysis -- did scene B follow logically from scene A, do character X's choices/reactions make sense or did I forget to explain stuff on-page, are there any weird tonal or thematic glitches, etc. -- and then maybe a couple questions/worries that are story-specific and thus different every time. (In this case it's some mid-20th century fact-checking, because of reasons.)

I try very hard to weed out my own extraneous commas, but I swear they have invisibility cloaks or something until at least a week after a story is posted... at which point they all jump out at me and I make terrible wailing noises while I frantically delete half of them. *sigh* I'm a little better at not typing them in the first place these days, but it is an ongoing struggle.

And hey, when Madness opens, sign up and I will write you a thing! It may be a very small thing, but the thought will be there. :-)