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What a difference a beta makes, #2
Jul. 19th, 2008 10:25 pm(cross-posted to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
ohzeebooks)
I will confess that I don't usually have my drabbles beta'd, but I do try to have longer pieces beta read, and I have a really awesome beta-reader. I posted a similar account once before for a story called Heart and Soul (Cain/Glitch, not to be confused with the DG/Glitch story of the same name!), and wanted to do it again for a more recent story.
I thought it might be interesting/helpful/discussion-making to give an example of the beta-ing process, at least as it took place for this particular story.
( Pay some attention to the man behind the curtain )
ohzeebooks)I will confess that I don't usually have my drabbles beta'd, but I do try to have longer pieces beta read, and I have a really awesome beta-reader. I posted a similar account once before for a story called Heart and Soul (Cain/Glitch, not to be confused with the DG/Glitch story of the same name!), and wanted to do it again for a more recent story.
I thought it might be interesting/helpful/discussion-making to give an example of the beta-ing process, at least as it took place for this particular story.
( Pay some attention to the man behind the curtain )
Fic: Second Opinion 3/3
Jul. 14th, 2008 09:29 amTitle: Second Opinion 3/3
Total Word Count: 3073
Pairing: Glitch/Cain (background)
Crossover: Tin Man with House
Author's Note:
Yet another fic inspired by, but growing beyond the bounds of,tinman100! (Response to the suggestion: crossover)
Many thanks are due to my beta-reader, TODS, who performed yeoman service on this story, with incredibly fast turnaround as well.
Part 1
Part 2
( Second Opinion, Part 3 )
Total Word Count: 3073
Pairing: Glitch/Cain (background)
Crossover: Tin Man with House
Author's Note:
Yet another fic inspired by, but growing beyond the bounds of,
tinman100! (Response to the suggestion: crossover)Many thanks are due to my beta-reader, TODS, who performed yeoman service on this story, with incredibly fast turnaround as well.
Part 1
Part 2
( Second Opinion, Part 3 )
Fic: Second Opinion 2/3
Jul. 13th, 2008 01:19 pmTitle: Second Opinion 2/3
Total Word Count: 3073
Pairing: Glitch/Cain (background)
Crossover: Tin Man with House
Author's Note:
Yet another fic inspired by, but growing beyond the bounds of,tinman100! (Response to the suggestion: crossover)
Many thanks are due to my beta-reader, TODS, who performed yeoman service on this story, with incredibly fast turnaround as well.
Note on Part 2: Kutner is thinking of Runaround by Blues Traveler.
Part 1
( Second Opinion, Part 2 )
Total Word Count: 3073
Pairing: Glitch/Cain (background)
Crossover: Tin Man with House
Author's Note:
Yet another fic inspired by, but growing beyond the bounds of,
tinman100! (Response to the suggestion: crossover)Many thanks are due to my beta-reader, TODS, who performed yeoman service on this story, with incredibly fast turnaround as well.
Note on Part 2: Kutner is thinking of Runaround by Blues Traveler.
Part 1
( Second Opinion, Part 2 )
Fic: Second Opinion 1/3
Jul. 12th, 2008 06:50 pmTitle: Second Opinion 1/3
Total Word Count: 3073
Pairing: Glitch/Cain (background)
Crossover: Tin Man with House
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by Imagiquest Entertainment. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Author's Note:
Yet another fic inspired by, but growing beyond the bounds of,tinman100! (Response to the suggestion: crossover)
Many thanks are due to my beta-reader, TODS, who performed yeoman service on this story, with incredibly fast turnaround as well.
( Second Opinion, Part 1 )
Total Word Count: 3073
Pairing: Glitch/Cain (background)
Crossover: Tin Man with House
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by Imagiquest Entertainment. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Author's Note:
Yet another fic inspired by, but growing beyond the bounds of,
tinman100! (Response to the suggestion: crossover)Many thanks are due to my beta-reader, TODS, who performed yeoman service on this story, with incredibly fast turnaround as well.
( Second Opinion, Part 1 )
ETA: Got it! I was trying to explain the problem to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
metherion and he said, "But Mom, if I can see your SharedDocs folder on my computer and drag things out of it, why can't I just drag things *into* it and have them show up on your computer?" Holy cow. It worked!
Ever sincemetherion pimped hubby and me into House, we've been watching the first season twice a week in a placid sort of way. Then the schedule-to-come showed that the station showing them was going to skip a bunch, so metherion used my flash drive to transport an ep to my computer, I burned it to a DVD and we watched it. Then we watched another one, and hit the Vogler arc, and now we can't transport them fast enough! Metherion sneakernetted five more eps today and I burned a nice long DVD, but we *watched* three eps tonight, because we are hooked on House like House on Vicodin.
Why so low-tech, you may ask? After all, metherion logs onto the Intarweb through our home wireless network. If I could pull the eps onto my computer directly from his, it would be House Heaven! Well, I spent part of an afternoon futzing with my (Windows XP) 'puter and his (PowerBook G4, i.e., Mac) laptop, and HE can now download whatever I want to put into my SharedDocs folder... but *I* can't get into HIS computer, which was the whole point!
He has all the right doodads clicked under Network Sharing and his default workgroup has been renamed to the name of our home network, etc., etc., etc... I can SEE his computer on "View Workgroup Computers" where it shows up as "metherions-computer.local" but when I double-click on it, I get asked for a frickin' username and password.
WHAT username and password?!!! I tried the one he uses to make system changes on his computer, but that's not what it wants. I don't HAVE a username and password on this 'puter, nor did I set one up for the wireless network (yeah, I know, bad geek, no donut). I tried the standard username and password for my router to no effect.
I've been googling for quite a while but I can't seem to find the right information. Help!
metherion and he said, "But Mom, if I can see your SharedDocs folder on my computer and drag things out of it, why can't I just drag things *into* it and have them show up on your computer?" Holy cow. It worked!Ever since
metherion pimped hubby and me into House, we've been watching the first season twice a week in a placid sort of way. Then the schedule-to-come showed that the station showing them was going to skip a bunch, so metherion used my flash drive to transport an ep to my computer, I burned it to a DVD and we watched it. Then we watched another one, and hit the Vogler arc, and now we can't transport them fast enough! Metherion sneakernetted five more eps today and I burned a nice long DVD, but we *watched* three eps tonight, because we are hooked on House like House on Vicodin.Why so low-tech, you may ask? After all, metherion logs onto the Intarweb through our home wireless network. If I could pull the eps onto my computer directly from his, it would be House Heaven! Well, I spent part of an afternoon futzing with my (Windows XP) 'puter and his (PowerBook G4, i.e., Mac) laptop, and HE can now download whatever I want to put into my SharedDocs folder... but *I* can't get into HIS computer, which was the whole point!
He has all the right doodads clicked under Network Sharing and his default workgroup has been renamed to the name of our home network, etc., etc., etc... I can SEE his computer on "View Workgroup Computers" where it shows up as "metherions-computer.local" but when I double-click on it, I get asked for a frickin' username and password.
WHAT username and password?!!! I tried the one he uses to make system changes on his computer, but that's not what it wants. I don't HAVE a username and password on this 'puter, nor did I set one up for the wireless network (yeah, I know, bad geek, no donut). I tried the standard username and password for my router to no effect.
I've been googling for quite a while but I can't seem to find the right information. Help!
House musing (nothing to do with socks!)
Jun. 28th, 2006 08:39 amThis post also has nothing to do with religion, directly. Honest.
So I'm sitting in church on Sunday... and the gospel goes something like this:
Apostles: Wake up, Jesus! The boat's about to capsize! Don't you CARE we're all going to die!
Jesus: (to the waves) Chill. (toForeman, Chase, and Cameron the apostles) Don't you trust me?
I managed to wait until services were over to lean over and say to my husband and sister-in-law, "Didn't Jesus sound a lot like House today?"
So I'm sitting in church on Sunday... and the gospel goes something like this:
Apostles: Wake up, Jesus! The boat's about to capsize! Don't you CARE we're all going to die!
Jesus: (to the waves) Chill. (to
I managed to wait until services were over to lean over and say to my husband and sister-in-law, "Didn't Jesus sound a lot like House today?"
transmission of contagion
Jun. 13th, 2006 10:40 pmOK, I still think settiai somehow infected metherion with her mad hypnotik skilz long-distance, whereupon he downloaded all available episodes to his laptop and watched them over and over. Then he came home from college and coaxed his dad to TiVo the pilot, which we just watched tonight.
OMG. I haven't had this much fun watching an actual current running show since the first couple seasons of West Wing. As soon as it was over hubby looked up all the upcoming episodes and told the TiVo to record them (being him, he'll want to watch them all in order). He's hooked too.
House.
settiai somehow infected metherion with her mad hypnotik skilz long-distance, whereupon he downloaded all available episodes to his laptop and watched them over and over. Then he came home from college and coaxed his dad to TiVo the pilot, which we just watched tonight.OMG. I haven't had this much fun watching an actual current running show since the first couple seasons of West Wing. As soon as it was over hubby looked up all the upcoming episodes and told the TiVo to record them (being him, he'll want to watch them all in order). He's hooked too.
House.
