Subject: Ask, and you shall receive!
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Posted on: 2014-04-26 18:26:00 UTC

Well, when Randa and I worked on our first mission, what we did was print off the badfic (obviously, you don't want to print all of it if it's really long- maybe just the first ten pages?) and we went through it together with pencils, circling stuff like spelling errors and unintentionally funny sentences, and we also wrote in little comments about what the agents might say to seeing it in person.

(We also kept tallies for the number of times out 'Sue said 'EK!', which made it a little more bearable.)

Once the initial sporking was done, I started the mission by plopping the agents directly into the fic and working from there. Any particularly atrocious lines, or funny lines, or relevant lines were included, along with the agents' reactions to them.

After the mission itself was finished, I went back and wrote the intro bit and then gave it to Randa to check over for SPaG and for Randa's (the agent) characterization.

Tl;dr I suggest MSTing the thing first. It doesn't require characterizing or plot and it can help you spot some particularly good gems of bad lines you might want to include.

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