A few things I did during weekend

[wiseheart]

Had interesting discussions about the Second Age, Eregion and the lesser Rings with the Edhellond crowd. Had interesting discussions with the Axe&Bow crowd about bonsai trees in Moria. Had interesting discussions with the SecondAgeElves crowd about Sindarin names. Was fun.

Said discussions - plus the documentary titled The Magic Sword I saw on German TV a few days ago finally helped the next chapter of Innocence out of the black hole. It's not done yet, but I hope to finish it next week. *crosses fingers*

Said chapter spawned a brand new story. *sighs* Those plotcritters are downright frightening sometimes. Wrote most of the first chapter, but won't talk about it yet.

Decided not to join the new community. Looked at the Members list and realized that with most people I'm on one of the same lists... or more. Besdies, I'm really not interested in the genre right now. Maybe later. Or not at all.

On the other hand, I joined the Silmarillion and the Medieval communities. I'll most likely be only lurking in the background, but it might be interesting nevertheless.

Recorded the Dungeons and Dragons movie from German TV on Thursday. Still haven't seen it. I wonder if I will, ever.

Moved forward and typed up the next chapter of Alternate Caretaker. It's almost finished. I hope my dear, gracious beta would resurface, soon, as I still have half a dozen finished but unbetaed chapters I really would like to post.

And that's about it, basically. Not much, but I'm content nevertheless.

Comments

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but you are a native speaker, and I am not. I need a beta for cleaning out my English grammar (or the lack thereof). I do my best, but the use of tenses and prepositions is too much of a challenge for me. My own native tongue doesn't have them, and in German they work differently.

I have no problems with the content of my writings, but I don't want to be grammatically offensive. Plus I respect my own work too much to post gibberish. Which doesn't mean that I never post unbeta-ed stuff, but I avoid doing so if I can.

[jilba.livejournal.com]

Fair enough, I'd forgotten English is not your native tongue. See, that's a compliment! Perhaps you'll have to ask around for a new beta if yours doesn't reappear soon.

Re: beta

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

Well, either that or her regular beta needs to get off her RL-overwhelmed ass and do some work for the woman whose Boromir arc brought the aforementioned lameass into Tolkfic.

(For those unclear on the message, the lameass would be MOI.)

Write me offlist and tell me what you need when - I'll do it.

Re: beta

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I was talking of my Trek-beta, hon. :)) And she did resurface just yesterday. Poor thing had a serious case of RL, too.

Re:

[jilba.livejournal.com]

As long as she's OK, that's all that matters.