ratherastory: (Respect Your Beta Reader)
ratherastory ([personal profile] ratherastory) wrote2011-01-20 09:28 pm

Beta request #6,894,237

Hi all!

So I am supposed to be posting my [livejournal.com profile] l4d_bigbang on Monday, and am finishing up the massive clean-up of my draft now. The draft should be ready by tomorrow evening.

Is anyone out there willing to take a look at it for the usual SPaG and "Oh my God, [livejournal.com profile] ratherastory, what the hell is that sentence?" kind of stuff?

It's going to clock in at a little under 15K by my count. It's currently just under 13K and I have a big scene left to write, hopefully tonight.

Because of the quick turnaround, I'm not asking for an in-depth beta, just one to make sure there's nothing that will make me have to leave fandom because it's so bad. ;)

For any of you who don't know, Left 4 Dead is a video game about survivors trying to make it through zombie-infested territory. So, essentially, that's what this story is about: Sam and Dean and a couple of other survivors going from Point A to Point B and trying not to get nommed by zombies. The usual levels of gore that you'll find in my horror writing are there, and are in fact really not as bad as some of my stories.

Anyone? Bueller?

[identity profile] yasminke.livejournal.com 2011-01-21 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
SPaG?

I will, if you want.

[identity profile] ratherastory.livejournal.com 2011-01-21 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
Spelling and Grammar.

And YAY! You are an awesome beta.

*glomps*

*runs off to keep writing*

[identity profile] yasminke.livejournal.com 2011-01-21 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
All righty then.

I has purpose for the weekend.

[identity profile] ratherastory.livejournal.com 2011-01-21 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
You ALWAYS have purpose, my love!

[identity profile] yasminke.livejournal.com 2011-01-21 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
Meh. After I close the offers, I just sit and watch the waters rise...

[identity profile] ratherastory.livejournal.com 2011-01-21 02:51 am (UTC)(link)



Sorry, I couldn't resist. :)
Edited 2011-01-21 02:51 (UTC)

[identity profile] yasminke.livejournal.com 2011-01-21 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
Bwah haha

[identity profile] yasminke.livejournal.com 2011-01-21 07:38 am (UTC)(link)
Just wanted you to know that moments after you posted this it was announced that this is one of the songs on a charity CD.

[identity profile] ratherastory.livejournal.com 2011-01-21 12:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Hee! That's awesome. So glad I'm not the only one with a twisted sense of humour. ;)

[identity profile] yasminke.livejournal.com 2011-01-21 12:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll have to find the playlist, but there are a few snarks in there. Very Australian sense of humour.

[identity profile] primrose-1.livejournal.com 2011-01-21 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
My husband plays Left for Dead all the time- I can't wait to read it! I can't play the game myself....I would be too stressed out, and the witch scares me. :)

[identity profile] ratherastory.livejournal.com 2011-01-21 12:18 pm (UTC)(link)
w00t!

I play L4D on my friend's computer every now and then (I can't play it on my Mac, alas), and he sets it up for me JUST to watch me stress out and yell at the game. Apparently I am a very entertaining, interactive player. ;)