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betaplease2012-02-11 02:05 am
cortisol) wrote in betaplease2012-02-11 02:05 am
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Hoping it's all right to post for puttings out feelers re: a fic that is not yet done, but is going to need to be beta'd before a solid deadline. First, the form!
Fandom: Life on Mars/Law & Order Fusion
Characters/Pairings: Sam Tyler, Cyrus Lupo
Rating & Warnings: No way to know for sure yet, obviously, but there will be both visceral memories of violent death and clinical descriptions of victims' corpses, etc., because I like me some forensics in my casefic. Sex-wise, it's going to be solidly gen, though it'll probably be heavy enough on the Buddy Cop dynamic to read as bromance.
Notes: You could probably get by with more knowledge of Life on Mars than Law & Order—it's basically going to be a Very Weird Police Procedural in the vein of the first episodes of Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes. Cyrus Lupo is in the "am I dead or in a coma?" situation (like Sam and Alex), and Sam himself is sort of filling the shoes of Gene Hunt, though not particularly well. I'm going to try to write it such as that knowledge of Ashes to Ashes is completely unnecessary for a reader, but it probably wouldn't hurt for a beta to also be familiar with it.
Now for context! This is for a fic that's currently still being written for thecasestory Big Bang. That means it's going to be over 10,000 words long when it's done. Rough Drafts are due May 1st and final works start posting June 10th, so that means in the worst case scenario, that's a little over a month to beta 10,000 words of casefic that's going to need checking for plot holes, consistency problems, magical detectives-can-suddenly-read-minds interrogation errors, etc.
Case Story requires every fic to have at least one beta reader, preferably two. I have one friend who's volunteered, but his health is kind of unpredictable, and I don't want to find myself in the position of not having a beta reader or putting too much pressure on him if May turns out to a bad month.
(Just to clarify, I'm not looking for an alpha to read as I'm writing—just people who think they'll be able to handle beta-reading 10,000 words of casefic in either April or May. Hopefully it'll be done sooner rather than later, but I'm not taking any chances on that.)
Fandom: Life on Mars/Law & Order Fusion
Characters/Pairings: Sam Tyler, Cyrus Lupo
Rating & Warnings: No way to know for sure yet, obviously, but there will be both visceral memories of violent death and clinical descriptions of victims' corpses, etc., because I like me some forensics in my casefic. Sex-wise, it's going to be solidly gen, though it'll probably be heavy enough on the Buddy Cop dynamic to read as bromance.
Notes: You could probably get by with more knowledge of Life on Mars than Law & Order—it's basically going to be a Very Weird Police Procedural in the vein of the first episodes of Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes. Cyrus Lupo is in the "am I dead or in a coma?" situation (like Sam and Alex), and Sam himself is sort of filling the shoes of Gene Hunt, though not particularly well. I'm going to try to write it such as that knowledge of Ashes to Ashes is completely unnecessary for a reader, but it probably wouldn't hurt for a beta to also be familiar with it.
Now for context! This is for a fic that's currently still being written for the
casestory Big Bang. That means it's going to be over 10,000 words long when it's done. Rough Drafts are due May 1st and final works start posting June 10th, so that means in the worst case scenario, that's a little over a month to beta 10,000 words of casefic that's going to need checking for plot holes, consistency problems, magical detectives-can-suddenly-read-minds interrogation errors, etc.Case Story requires every fic to have at least one beta reader, preferably two. I have one friend who's volunteered, but his health is kind of unpredictable, and I don't want to find myself in the position of not having a beta reader or putting too much pressure on him if May turns out to a bad month.
(Just to clarify, I'm not looking for an alpha to read as I'm writing—just people who think they'll be able to handle beta-reading 10,000 words of casefic in either April or May. Hopefully it'll be done sooner rather than later, but I'm not taking any chances on that.)