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[wiseheart]

Called my Internet provider yesterday. Between a nice young man and me, we solved the Outlook problem. Go me! (It seems that a message got stuck on their server or whatnot.)

Started the second book of R. Salvatore's "Dark Elf" trilogy yesterday, during exercises in the fitness studio. Well... another book I probably wouldn't waste my time with otherwise, but at the same time as biking it is actually pleasantly distracting. If the drows had at least some endearing qualities as just being evil, it would be a lot more interesting, but - ah, well...

Got a beta through the SoA list. She's a nice one. We're trying to work out our technical difficulties right now: she can't open Word 6.0 files, I can't open Microsoft Work ones. We might have to stuck with htmls, then.

the_wild_iris, the shiniest jewel among Wood-elves, has done the beta for the next chapter of "The Shoemaker's Daughter". It's interesting to see how different the logic of English and Hungarian is. Half of my stupid mistakes comes from the fact that I either think in Hungarian, or my brain decides that every foreign language is German by default and tries to do everything the German way. *g*

Put up a few early "Pathway" pieces to hiddenrealms. It's interesting to see how much my writing in English has developed since 1999. I've proofread those pieces again and was a bit shocked by the level of language stupidity they contained. Even after a general cleaning-out, I'm not really happy with them, but they'll do for the time being.

Weather is TEh Stoopid. Yesterday we had a short heat wave again, now we're having a rain of the properties of the Biblical flood. I hope we'll have a halfways endurable weather on our trip to France.

Comments

[the-wild-iris.livejournal.com]

We're trying to work out our technical difficulties right now: she can't open Word 6.0 files, I can't open Microsoft Work ones. We might have to stuck with htmls, then.

Try saving your files as .rtf (Rich Text Format). It's a file format that anyone can open and it supports most of the word processor formatting.

It's interesting to see how different the logic of English and Hungarian is. Half of my stupid mistakes comes from the fact that I either think in Hungarian, or my brain decides that every foreign language is German by default and tries to do everything the German way. *g*

I think it's English being stupid, not you - silly Germanic language without the German order and reason :)

Hope the betaing goes well, and thank you for calling me nice names :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I think it's English being stupid, not you - silly Germanic language without the German order and reason :)

Your words, not mine! *g*
You know, I'm always surprised that I still got grief for my grammar from nitpicky readers while supposedly beta-ed supposedly native speakers disfugure the language a lot more. When I see "would of"s instead "would have", I could scream. Not to mention the unholy trinity of there/their/they're. I swear, I don't butcher my English homonymes half as much as the people whose mother tongue it is often do.

thank you for calling me nice names

Well, you deserve it. We pervy Thranduil-fanciers need to stick together. *g*

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

Have you tried uploading your chapters to google.docs to work with your beta? I've started doing that with my friend and beta, Raksha and it works great.
We can both edit and share the file online constantly.


http://docs.google.com/
You sign up for a free accout with google, then copy paste your document and send an e mail authorising access to the other person.

[mistry89.livejournal.com]

R Salvatore's Dark Elf series has been on my One Day TBR for some time. I think it may stay there.
Glad to here someone stepped up - I'm not "abled" that way, and would be far too pushy as a beta (at work I am called upon to edit/proof the monthly newsletters and the annual catalogue ... they think I'm tough (which is odd, because if anyone abuses commas and parentheses, it would be me!).
Cheers!