Hey, no offense, but --

Is 3rd time the charm for beta requests? I need a btea for my second Permission Request. by ClaireBook1 on 2021-08-18 17:38:25 UTC Beta request Reply

WolfQuill said that they would beta for me, but I haven't heard from them since they said that they would beta for me. I don't really use email for communication, so the Board or commenting via Google Docs would be a better option for me. I mostly write for LOTR and Narnia, but if this changes, I will tell you. Also, I don't do missions for slash. I have finished rewriting my second Permission Request, and I would like someone to look over it. I am hoping to post it to the Board by August 29th or 30th at the latest because school is starting and I won't have time for PPC stuff.

Um...typo by Linstar on 2022-04-16 05:06:46 UTC Edited Reply

Not to be too picky...but there's a typo in your post subject. "Btea," I believe. Would that be a mini-Boarder?
I'd recommend waiting for your last post to fall off the first page before... by Kittyauthor on 2021-08-18 20:42:26 UTC Edited Reply

...posting your request for a beta again because it clutters up the Board if you post multiple times.

I'm not meaning to sound mad. I'm sorry if I come off as such.

-kA

I see what you mean. by ClaireBook1 on 2021-08-18 20:59:48 UTC Reply

I probably won't get on the Board much during school, or my parents will get snarky because I have a tendency to procrastinate. So I'm hoping to get this whole Permission buisness out of the way before then.

Hey, no offense, but -- by Lily Winterwood on 2021-08-18 23:57:37 UTC Edited Reply

"getting this Permission business out of the way" is not exactly a great look for Permission Givers when they do come by to look at your Permission request. Most PGs here that I am aware of are adults, and their jobs and families come before checking the Board. Telling them that you're in a rush to get Permission whilst demonstrating a lack of understanding of basic PPC concepts -- that the Words are what cause strange things to happen in missions, or what mini-Discords look like -- does not give the community much confidence that you understand what we're about.

It also took me two attempts to get Permission back in the day, and the second time very much coincided with school starting up again. I'm pretty sure at the time I was also just as impatient. But Permission does not expire with inactivity, so I'd recommend you sit back and take your time. Try reading through more missions and the Wiki and focus on your schoolwork. This Board is not going to grow legs and walk away if you stop posting on it -- I would know, since I keep dipping in and out of it with years of inactivity in between!

Please don't take this harshly. I'm sure you've got lots of ideas in store for when you get Permission, but looking impatient is really only going to make people more reluctant to give you what you want.

Sorry. I should know better. I'm having a bad day, which makes it hard to think. by ClaireBook1 on 2021-08-19 16:27:16 UTC Reply

I'm kind of freaking out about school starting because I'm dual-enrolled in high school and college at the same time, and my mom wants me to take extra classes. Don't get me wrong, my mom is awesome and she just wants me to do my best at school, but what with all this covid-induced craziness and school starting in about two weeks and everything else happening in my life, I just feel kind of overwhelmed. I'm sorry if it's all ended up with me having about as much patience as a sugar-high fanbrat writing bad Legomances.

I had a mother like that, too. by Lily Winterwood on 2021-08-20 00:56:15 UTC Reply

I'm fortunate enough to have been out of school before Covid hit, so I'm sorry to hear you've been having a rough time with all the craziness. If your mother is the kind of parent who can be reasoned with, I'd recommend letting her know you feel overwhelmed about everything. I mostly just acted out by writing fanfiction instead of studying for the SATs, which -- well, I ended up with a test score I could use, but in terms of my relationship with my mother we definitely aren't close anymore.

In any case, if you have the urge to write, just go for it. Write some non-PPC stuff and find some betas elsewhere (FFN used to mark whether or not people could be approached for beta reading, and for several years after I stopped posting there I still got people popping up to ask if I could look over their OCs). The best way to get better at writing is just to write, and worry about making it perfect later.

I've been homeschooled all of my life, so doing all of my work at home is not new for me. by ClaireBook1 on 2021-08-20 18:15:30 UTC Reply

I'm in my second year of high school, and I still haven't signed up for all of my classes even though school is starting in a little over a week. I'm also taking an online Spanish class from a junior college near my house because one semester counts for a whole year of high school Spanish. I will probably be fine, everything is just slightly nuttier than usual.

Before I discovered the PPC, I wrote a bad LOTR Extra Ringwraith!Sue fic, but I discovered the PPC, so I stopped writing it. Last of the Lost Now I would like someone to do a mission for it. I also wrote a very short fic, Of Spoons and Scones, which might not be badfic. Now I'm kind of worried that if I write more fanfic it will be Suefic or something. Maybe that's silly, but I am an idea magnet for bad ideas as well as good ones.

-Claire

Haven't looked at the longer fic... by Zingenmir on 2021-08-21 20:51:48 UTC Reply

...but "Of Spoons and Scones" certainly isn't badfic. It's a sweet little vignette. I can see a place to give gentle constructive criticism, but it's certainly not even mild badfic.

I'm also rather amused by the idea of Gandalf drinking his tea with a soup spoon, and how Bilbo isn't even remotely as bothered by the idea as some people he knows probably would be.

Funnily enough, I've actually written a similar sort of short fiction (flash fiction? I forget the exact definitions for that)--Bilbo translating "Gil-galad was an elven-King." Yours reminds me of it a little bit. It's here if you're curious, though, uh, obligatory disclaimer that I wrote and originally posted it back in 2010. Which is apparently eleven years ago now. Wowza.

Anyway. Good luck, I hope you get your classes sorted out without too much trouble, and don't worry too much about what you're writing. Pretty much everyone here has likely written both bad things and very silly things at some point. The important thing, really, is to continue to grow, as it is in most areas. If you end up writing something you later decide is badfic, that's okay! You got some writing practice, you did something fun/de-stressing, and now you get to choose what you want to do with it. Edit/rework it? Get Permission and send your agents into it? Put it away? Ask for concrit? Whatever you do with it, you'll be a little more practiced for having written it, and that's great. For both your creative and your academic writing, actually: an essay and a fanfic don't follow the same formats or conventions, most of the time, but being able to communicate an idea well is definitely a transferable skill. So, seriously, whatever you write? Especially since you're concerned with quality and improving as a writer and so on? It should be perfectly fine. Relax and have some fun with it. Whatever you think of it after, whatever feedback you get, it's good to keep writing, and, if you want the big picture, it's another step in your journey as a writer.

~Z, who may not have said hello yet? Hi! Welcome to the Board :) If you like dried apricots, have a welcome gift of very good dried apricots! In case you don't like dried apricots, have a secondary welcome gift of one of those pens that writes in multiple colors of ink!

Thanks for the concrit and the apricots. :) by ClaireBook1 on 2021-08-22 01:46:32 UTC Reply

Do you think the apricots would be good in cookies or some other kind of baked goods? I like to bake/cook whenever I have free time and I'm not getting distracted with other things.

They should be! by Zingenmir on 2021-08-23 05:54:46 UTC Reply

I've never really baked with dried apricots, but depending on the recipe and your tastes, they'd probably be pretty good. I believe they're also used in some rice dishes, though that's no longer strictly baking. The RL version of these apricots are very fresh, quite soft and sweet, so they should work well for pretty much anything, I should think. Me, I just tend to eat them as they are, for the most part.

~Z