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Subject: Looking for a Beta
Author: the Irish Samurai
Posted on: 2012-04-05 19:34:00 UTC

I'm looking for someone to help out checking the piece I intend to submit as my writing sample, when I make my permission request.

The piece is a fanfic for Calvin and Hobbes (picked on the basis that it matched the PPC for randomness potential). I've had a quick look at the List of Betas over on the wiki, but couldn't see anyone specifically saying they knew the continuum, so I thought I'd ask around here.

I don't have anywhere yet to put it up online, but I've got it as a Word document so I can e-mail it out, or maybe just copy the text into a post? (I don't know what the word limit for a post is)

Anyone interested?

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Looking for a Beta by the Irish Samurai on 2012-04-05 19:34:00 UTC

I remember C&H! by HerrWozzeck on 2012-04-05 22:53:00 UTC Reply

Oh, man, that was such a great cartoon. It's been years since I read it, but I think it'll be nice to refresh my memory on that.

(On a side note, we do actually have some Calvin and Hobbes stuff that goes around HQ. You know the cardboard box that's supposed to replicate things? Well, in the PPC, it actually DOES replicate things!)

I don't know if I'll have time to beta-read it, but send it my way and I'll take a look at it.

I still read C&H! by the Irish Samurai on 2012-04-06 13:57:00 UTC Reply

It's one of those ones that is great to go back to and reread all the time (in my opinion). Especially as you can just pick any of them up and start reading.

Yeah, I saw that a little bit about cardboard-tech was mentioned on the Calvin and Hobbes wiki page, haven't yet read the story that it referred to (Macrovirus Epidemic), or come across any mentions in the few other pieces that I've read so far.

As for sending the fic your way, how should I do that? I'd e-mail it to you, but I couldn't see an address for you anywhere. Or should I put it on Google Docs like Rosie Azrael suggested in the post below?

Yeah, it's a fun comic. by HerrWozzeck on 2012-04-06 15:26:00 UTC Reply

The cardboard tech is actually used in one of my interludes. Crazy times are had with that.

You can shoot me an e-mail at herrwozzeck@aol.com.

Agreed by the Irish Samurai on 2012-04-08 16:41:00 UTC Reply

Out of interest, which set of your agents is that interlude with? I've just started reading the missions of Florestan and Eusabius, and I'm enjoying them.

Thanks for your address, sending you an e-mail now.

It happens in Interlude 2 of Florestan and Eusabius. by HerrWozzeck on 2012-04-08 19:05:00 UTC Reply

It comes in the interlude that occurs after they tackle the Harry Potter/Saw crossover in which the Saw franchise is suddenly pulled into the 70's because the author doesn't seem to understand how the chronology of the Harry Potter franchise works.

Not a beta for C&H, but... by Rosie Azrael on 2012-04-05 21:10:00 UTC Reply

Many of us put our unfinished (ie unbeta'd) missions up on Google Docs, because it's free and you can control exactly who can see and edit and make comments. All it takes is signing up for an account, and has all the tools you need for beta reading.

Also, a it is sometimes beneficial to have a beta who specifically doesn't know the continuum, so they can point out the in-jokes that you understand but that other people might not so that you can clarify them, which is especially helpful if you work in a small continuum (like, say, I'm currently working on a mission in the Brother Cadfael continuum, which at last count only one other person in the PPC knew about).

/my two cents.

Thanks by the Irish Samurai on 2012-04-06 13:42:00 UTC Reply

I've never used Goodle Docs before, but I'll check it out, sounds like it could be useful.

I hadn't considered that an 'outside' beta would be able to pick up on other stuff, but yeah that makes perfect sense.