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I'm doing some military research for my Draco/Ron 'SNAFU - Situation Normal: All Fucked Up.' Yes, yes, these are two 19-year-old wizards, they're not professional soldiers. But Ron's smart.

I've done too much beta-reading. There are punctuation errors, some clarity issues (you can't call your team 21st Airborne Search and Rescue in one paragraph, and the 'Knives of the 21st' two paragraphs later). I am annoyed by this shit. I've read World Airpower Journal. Those writers are brilliant, best technical writing I've ever seen. I've read Col. Hackworth. Damn good story. But this book. *Exasperated sigh.* Those who have been beta'd by me know. I get irritable. I expect better of you, dammit. I'm nothing like my own Betas who are gentle souls, kindly asking questions and making suggestions. I go fusion with Betas who are like me, while a simple, gentle nudge sends me spinning in the right direction at full speed.

I missed a call for a temp assignment today. Shit. Maybe the job is still available.

All I want to do is write.

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schmevil.livejournal.com

Bitch! Evil bitch! I'm editing, you understand. Things are changing in A+F, from the wording of specific passages, to the structure of scenes, to the order of things. I'm adding more MWPP, more Wilkes, more Bellshire. *hiss!* You can't go and keep a copy of The Story, on me. Now you've got me wondering how many other copies are out there. *wince* I'm really ashamed by some of the writing in it. Everything is really uneven and the beginning needs an insane amount of revision...

Anyway. I don't have any HP projects in the works and

sajasma is slowly back-betaing what fics I am keeping online. I'm eventually going to begin reworking all the rest of my fics. "That Summer" may just go back up, but I'm thinking of making it into a larger fic. Same with a lot of the other stuff. I"ve already begun the process with "Small Gods".

Could I call on you for help while I rework A+F? I was having trouble with a Smallville fic, so I posted and reposted drafts to a small lj filter, for beta-commentary. I'm hoping to do the same for A+F, but that might just spoil the reading experience for you. *shrugs*

icarusancalion

Students? I like to think of them as "test subjects".....

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