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Posted on: Mon, 12/07/2009 - 06:25
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Alright... I'm issuing a new challenge. Who amongst you possesses the cojones, gender aside, to have me as your Beta?
I've read your stories. I may even like your fiction. I know you not personally, such that you may hate my edits without consequence. Even Cassius would hold that I doth bestride the (narrow) canon like a Colossus. I possess an attorney's sense of syntax and grammar with, properly, a scientist's demeanor. While I've no writing sample to submit, I've obtained a BA and am in an MD program. So that I may line up the acronyms: QED, I am both transiently intelligent (always at a full moon) and vaguely human. I realize that degrees in Ethics and Biology will lead to far too many discussions vis-a-vis Kant, Krebs, and Voldemort, but such is price of a Beta. I'm addicted to the Oxford comma, but you can deal.
Are you the masters of your own fates, or is the fault in the stars?
Vespers
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Well, not bad for a CV, but based on my experience most folk like to see a sample of what you're up to before hand.
The better question is why your advertisement posted three times. Did you do something interesting, or did the site decide to do something outlandesh?
I posted this challenge to different forums in this site. It took me three whole "copy-and-pastes" before I recognized that MetaFic would promote each thread; clearly my past experiences with acrylamide have done their work.
I'm not quite sure what you mean. I don't write; I patiently, perhaps annoyingly, guide others to write right. Should they not write right, I write how their writing might be wrong. If they do indeed write correctly (i.e. they wrote right), then I write a review and/or an email about how their writing went right or wrong.
Vespers
I'm not quite sure what you mean. I don't write; I patiently, perhaps annoyingly, guide others to write right. Should they not write right, I write how their writing might be wrong. If they do indeed write correctly (i.e. they wrote right), then I write a review and/or an email about how their writing went right or wrong.
Vespers
Ah............
Totally misread what you wrote.
Not a problem. I'd like to Beta a fic or two between impressing myself with grammar and/or ellipses. While my lack of fictitious, rather than scientific, writing experience may better lend me to error-finding (would that be termed an "Alpha" position? I'm not sure...), I'd still like to help someone in some fashion.