My wonderful betas
Oct. 13th, 2004 05:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geovikiIt's still Beta Appreciation Day here in the western US (and it boggles me that Colorado is considered "the West", because it's still over 1,000 miles to the left coast). I want to gush a bit over the generous and talented betas who make my writing so much better than I can alone!
First and foremost is the incomparable![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
isiscolo who is not only one of the most thorough, wonderful, considerate, and gifted betas around, but is a superb author herself, as well as a terrific mentor to me and countless others. She's taken me under wing and into her circle of friends, and for that I'll owe her more than I can ever hope to repay! She's been my beta since my second story, and has put so much time and effort into helping me... Thanks, sweetie! You are the absolute best!!!
Next is the ever-enthusiastic H/D shipper nonpareil,wayfairer. Where Isis, I like to say, is my finish carpenter, Aja is my structural framer. She jumped in to the long, long fic that is A Thousand Beautiful Things, with pages and pages of character studies and suggestions to the first draft that improved the whole fic immensely. Sully's poignant scene about serving others - her suggestion sparked that scene. She turned Hermione into someone far less cardboard than I made her. And I cannot express how much it meant to me, coming home after spending all day with my son in the hospital, to see ATBT recced in her LJ - even before it was posted!
I don't want to miss mentioningzionsstarfish, and she'll object that she didn't make the pages and pages of suggestions that Isis and Aja did, but she was there with her support when I needed it.
I don't want anyone to minimize the major undertaking it is to beta someone's novel-length fic - ATBT is over 100,000 words.
I wish I'd had the balls to askajhalluk to beta for me up front, or at least Britpick for me, before I made all those stupid mistakes. But she jumped in after the fact and gave me kind suggestions about how the football game ought to have gone, and gently corrected other embarrassing errors. I scrambled to fix them after the fact (and thank you, Skyehawke, that you make editing such a breeze)
First and foremost is the incomparable
isiscolo who is not only one of the most thorough, wonderful, considerate, and gifted betas around, but is a superb author herself, as well as a terrific mentor to me and countless others. She's taken me under wing and into her circle of friends, and for that I'll owe her more than I can ever hope to repay! She's been my beta since my second story, and has put so much time and effort into helping me... Thanks, sweetie! You are the absolute best!!!Next is the ever-enthusiastic H/D shipper nonpareil,
wayfairer. Where Isis, I like to say, is my finish carpenter, Aja is my structural framer. She jumped in to the long, long fic that is A Thousand Beautiful Things, with pages and pages of character studies and suggestions to the first draft that improved the whole fic immensely. Sully's poignant scene about serving others - her suggestion sparked that scene. She turned Hermione into someone far less cardboard than I made her. And I cannot express how much it meant to me, coming home after spending all day with my son in the hospital, to see ATBT recced in her LJ - even before it was posted!I don't want to miss mentioning
zionsstarfish, and she'll object that she didn't make the pages and pages of suggestions that Isis and Aja did, but she was there with her support when I needed it.I don't want anyone to minimize the major undertaking it is to beta someone's novel-length fic - ATBT is over 100,000 words.
I wish I'd had the balls to ask
ajhalluk to beta for me up front, or at least Britpick for me, before I made all those stupid mistakes. But she jumped in after the fact and gave me kind suggestions about how the football game ought to have gone, and gently corrected other embarrassing errors. I scrambled to fix them after the fact (and thank you, Skyehawke, that you make editing such a breeze)
