Awesome, thanks Irish

PokÃ©mon: Looking for a Beta by Artic Blade on 2012-04-16 00:21:00 UTC Reply

Hi guys.
I'm posting a quick message to see if anyone would possibly be willing to be beta for my Pokémon fanfiction 'Beginnings of a Master: The Dictian Diaries'. I've written four chapters so far, and gone through the chapters myself, but we are our own worst critic...
The story so far can be found here:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7954543/1/BeginningsofaMasterDictian_Diaries

Let me know!

Re: PokÃ©mon: Looking for a Beta by the Irish Samurai on 2012-04-20 17:52:00 UTC Reply

Hi Artic,

I started reading your fic during my lunchbreak today; I must say I was surprised to encounter E=mc^2 in a Pokémon piece, and that intrigued me enough to carry on reading. Didn't read all the chapters, because I ran out of time, but I enjoyed what I did read.

I'm only vaguely familiar with this continuum, but if you're still in need of a Beta then I'd be willing to help out. I'll certainly be able to check the story for internal consistency and SPaG (although from what I've read so far you don't seem to have problem with that), but may less useful when it comes to spotting OOCness etc.

So, yeah, I may not be able to do a full Beta of it, but I can volunteer my services as a 'Gamma' (a term I've possibly just invented to describe someone that can't necessarily fulfil all the duties of a Beta, but is willing to give it a shot anyway).

And there's always the chance that by bumping it to the top of the page again, it'll attract the attention of someone else that knows more about Pokémon than I do.

Awesome, thanks Irish by Artic Blade on 2012-04-21 02:01:00 UTC Reply

I'll let you know. Seems due to the lack of interest, I may turn to you for it.
As for OOCness, most of the fanfiction deals with OCs. The Canon characters only have small cameos, and rarely large enough to establish much of their personality. They're more references to establish with continuum we're in (Anime).

Other than that, it's an original location, with some original Pokémon and concepts. I'm part of an old group of fanfic writers who joined together and let the others use their created regions and Pokémon. From what I can tell, I'm the only one still active though.

Anyways, I'll let you know regardless :)

Nice work! by the Irish Samurai on 2012-04-21 19:41:00 UTC Reply

Finished reading the 4 chapters you've got up so far, and am enjoying it very much.

If you're not planning on using much in the way of canon characters and locations then that'll make it easier for me to do a thorough job. So, yeah, definitely volunteering to Beta if you're still looking for one.