New Member and Help Please?

[tineryn.livejournal.com]

Hello, all.

I am relatively new to Silm writing (I have done LotR for a while). I recently wrote a one chapter, Maglor-centric story that, while it is not completely horrid, is in need of a decent beta. I edited it myself as best I could, but am afraid to continue and risk doing the story harm.

The story is untitled. It was written for Christmas, is set in the Modern era and necessarily AU. I have it posted in my LJ if anyone cares to peek, and if someone, preferably with beta experience, would help me, I'd be much obliged.

Thank you very much!

~tineryn

Comments

[dawn_felagund]

Welcome to the group, tineryn!

I will definitely have a look at it. I have experience as an editor and do betas but it generally takes a while (as I have a tendency to take on at least five million and one projects :^P), but if you want detailed help with your story, just let me know! :)

[tineryn.livejournal.com]

That would be great. I only have one request--whenever you do get around to betaing it, could you either explain your thoughts/reasons for doing things, or could we talk about it? I like to know what/why I'm changing things--and it always helps in making changes if I can run it by somebody to make sure it's actually an improvement...

[dawn_felagund]

Oh, no worries. I have an (annoying?) tendency to write comments as long as the story. I tend to overexplain if nothing else. :^/

How do you want me to get it to you? Or do you just want the beta stuff in the comments? Whatever you prefer!

Oh, and my email--for reference--is DawnFelagund@comcast.net. :)

[tineryn.livejournal.com]

my email is tineryn@yahoo.com. If you could email me your comments, that would be lovely. And no worries about overexplaining--I do the same when I do beta (which I rarely do, partly for time and partly because I figure I should improve my own writing before I nitpick too much on somebody else's!)

Thank you very much.