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Vesh-Nek
Topic: Help!
Hello, I'm in need of a beta really bad. I'm not sure if this is appropriate for this forum but if anyone's up for a real challenge (and a long story) it would be great. Share ideas, edit, maybe even become friends.

I'm a friendly and nice person and I won't bite anyone's heads off. Promise.

I'll give you a cookie!

#1 Dec 16th 2006, 7:17pm
Rosemarine
Wow! count me in!

I would love to excersize my editing prowess (okay, i'm nothing supernatural, but i'm good enough to edit my sister's papers, and she's a senior in college)

And I can be your friend, friends are good, and possibly have a fresh baked cyber-cookie or two... ;)

Show me the victim, er... darling, and lets have a looksee.

#2 Dec 28th 2006, 12:11pm
Rosemarine
i was kinda waiting for your go-ahead...i wasn't just joking
#3 Jan 09th 2007, 12:20pm
Anonymous Mouse
terribly sorry to intrude, but I didn't want to create an entire new topic just to ask my question.

I was wondering, is a really popular plot/problem in fantasy where the weaponry doesn't work because of magic. (by weaponry I mean guns.) It seems awfully familiar to me, and I don't want to accidentally copy anybody's work.

#4 Feb 05th 2007, 4:09pm
Marinus
It's fine to ask; the topic does say Help! at the top. As to the question, well this plot device was used quite prominently in the Abhorsen trilogy by Garth Nix, when any of the Greater Dead or Free Magic sorcerers came near technology, everything stopped working. Rapid metal fatigue, perhaps?

The device itself, though, has been around for some time, and you wouldn't be copying as per se.

#5 Feb 06th 2007, 8:26am
Wolf Queen 001
Hm... I'd be willing to help, just give me an e-mail. Not entirely sure what you want. I'm better at editing for grammar and spelling. I'd rather not give content advice, but I will if it's requested.

At any rate, I need some opinions about my own story (I am allowed to do this here, right?). I had wanted to write something fairly original, but getting about twelve chapters in, I begin to realize that maybe it's not as original as I was planning. I'm hoping someone could either tell me what I'm doing with it is indeed what I'm looking for or to give me ideas as to what to do next in order to make it original.

Basically, I'm looking for constructive criticism. I would accept ideas on how to revise it, too.

Thanks to anyone who responds.

#6 Apr 18th 2007, 1:40pm
Caibel
I just posted a story. Even though it was just yesterday, I'm kind of freaking out - I haven't written anything to post on the internet in a really, really long time, so I feel super stale, plus, it's my first original, completely-owned-by-me story ever, so I'm scared of how it is turning out. Could someone please tell me if there are any serious problems with it? (IE; annoying cliches, overdone things, etc.)
#7 Jun 30th 2007, 12:16pm

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