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[blue_soaring]

Someone remind me why three martini lunches are a bad thing?

Comments

[irana.insanejournal.com]

Because afterward you don't want to go back to work? At least I never did.

[blue_soaring.insanejournal.com]

Wait! Now I'm even MORE confused. Why is not going back to work a bad thing, again?

[irana.insanejournal.com]

Cause then you don't get paid. Unless you have time off available in which case I say, "Go for it"!

is a vile enabler *innocent look*

[stormcloude.insanejournal.com]

Passing out at your desk afterwards can get you fired?

[elke_tanzer.insanejournal.com]

It messes up your aim with a crossbow?

[blue_soaring.insanejournal.com]

So, what you're really saying is, don't pass out at my desk. Which means I can have a five martini lunch instead! :D

[blue_soaring.insanejournal.com]

Unless you happen to be one of those crazy people who can't aim sober. Yep.

[stormcloude.insanejournal.com]

Ehehehe! Yes, yes, that's what I'm saying!!

[blue_soaring.insanejournal.com]

If I were to ask you how inclined you are to hack and slash at fic, your response would be: _________?

[stormcloude.insanejournal.com]

your response would be:

Does hack and slash mean beta?

[blue_soaring.insanejournal.com]

In polite circles, yes. :3 But I'm all for masses of concrit so hack and slash is really more accurate (though like all peoples, I ignore certain things because I'm obviously Always Right). XD

[stormcloude.insanejournal.com]

*grins* Well, I am much better at grammar and so on than on matching with canon. My memory for specific times and events isn't fabulous. But I can usually spot major plot holes and odd characterizations and I am good at being a sounding board and coming up with options when authors are stuck. So if you're looking for general concrit I can do that, but if you're looking for canon matching I'd probably miss something.

What kind of time-frame do you look for in your hacks-and-slashers? (My work is big on looking over people's shoulders to make sure they're actually working.)

[blue_soaring.insanejournal.com]

Matching with canon isn't a huge deal (I've pretty much got the darn thing memorised, and any tiny details I'm not so worried about) it's more from a literary standpoint--har! Literary fanfiction!--like sentence structure, format, pacing, abuse of adverbs, nailing the feeling of a piece and being able to fill in any weak spots. That sort of thing. :3

I don't really aim for any time frame except when something is on deadline (and I do that like, once yearly). I'm used to Pond and she tends to take her time. She's so busy with school and work now that she can't do her usual beta for me so I'm all lost and fictionally naked. Aside from on RPS fic, I don't think I've posted anything without her going over it in years.

Eek.

[blue_soaring.insanejournal.com]

Oh. And typos. You've caught my typos before. ^^'

[stormcloude.insanejournal.com]

I'd be glad to give it a shot! Or if my comments aren't quite what you're looking for, then I've done the some of the rough work and you can give it to Pond for fine-tuning. :)

[blue_soaring.insanejournal.com]

Woo! You have a choice between casefile hijinks and Serious Business. Serious Business is the one I'll send if you don't have a preference, since it's the one I'm anxious for and it's shorter.

Exciting, new input. :D

[stormcloude.insanejournal.com]

Whoot! Send me whichever one you like! I work nights so the earliest I'd be able to look at it is tomorrow anyway.

How do you normally prefer notes? Annotated Word doc files? Shared Google docs? A separate list?

[blue_soaring.insanejournal.com]

Well. Pond usually just directly edits typos and small changes (like periods, commas, that sort of thing) and sticks bigger changes between [] square brackets so I can just search through to poke at her suggestions. Heh.

Where do I send my hopefully-tasties?

[stormcloude.insanejournal.com]

^______^

Works for me! stormcloude ( at ) gmail.com

[windsorblue.insanejournal.com]

They aren't! :D That's just The Man trying to keep you down!

[chichirinoda.insanejournal.com]

I see nothing wrong with these, and clearly neither does your supervisor.