Comments | pandoras_chaos: Aaaand here we go again...

pandoras_chaos

Aaaand here we go again...

Mar 12, 2014 14:22

I need a beta!

Angsty angst with a LOT of explicit content; written post-HLV with a lot of crazy anger involved. I've got a half scene left to write, and then I want it up as fast as possible-- I've seriously been hemming and hawing over this one for two bloody months. My usual beta is busy at the moment, and I don't want to ask my other norm ( Read more... )

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jcporter1 March 12 2014, 20:29:10 UTC

I am interested as hall in reading it! If I wasn't working and going to school full time I would do it.

Can't you just risk it and post it as is? I'm eating up all post HLV stuff, especially angry stuff.

I got my own post HLV going right now, but it's not angry, it involves madness and Mycroft.

pandoras_chaos March 12 2014, 20:56:20 UTC

I'll probably end up doing exactly that. I'm pretty good at picking apart my own writing to the point where it's at least presentable. It's more the fact that I've been working on this one for ages, mainly because I've been slowly working through my own feelings regarding HLV. I honestly have over 10K worth of scenes and dialogue that I've written into this thing and then cut to the scrap pile because I suddenly changed direction/wasn't feeling it. John is my go-to guy when it comes to feelings and interpretations in this show (if you couldn't tell...) but his actions and reactions in S3 were SO off the mark in places that I am finding it really really difficult to write in his voice ( ... )

jcporter1 March 12 2014, 21:05:17 UTC

I hear you. John is not talking because John is not John any more. He is 1/2 of a couple. But he will find his voice, because it will eat at him that his wife shot someone. Not just some one, but some one she knows to be paramount to him.
"I'm sorry, Sherlock" doesn't cut it.

But john can't process as quickly as Sherlock.

But Sherlock's voice is un reliable now too. Because he was in "the wilderness" for 2 years. God knows what he has gone through, but I think he is only hanging onto his sanity by the skin of his teeth.

So we have the mute and the unreliable voice. It is irritating and delicious at the same time.

Can't wait to see where your story comes out.

pandoras_chaos March 12 2014, 21:19:32 UTC

Ditto, love :D I too have been eating up post-HLV fic like it's my job. You put it perfectly: "John is not talking because John is not John any more."

God, this show!

I'll probably just obsessively re-read it for the millionth time once I've done with this scene and post it before I find a beta anyway. I want it off my google docs already so I can stop picking at it and be done. Bring on the happy reunion!

thesmallhobbit March 12 2014, 22:14:40 UTC

If you just want a second pair of eyes to give it the once over, I would be happy to do that. I'm away this weekend so can't do a proper beta on it, but could read through tomorrow night if it would help.

pandoras_chaos March 12 2014, 22:24:48 UTC

That would actually be marvelous! I have had SO many issues with this thing, and I've cut out/reworked so many scenes in it that I'm worried flow has gone completely to hell and that I've lost the tone in many places. I've also gotten to the point where I personally have read it so many times that there might be a glaring, obvious mistake staring me in the face and I'd not even see it.

I'm going to re-read it one more time-- I just finished that stupid half-scene that I'd been avoiding-- and send it over to you. I know it's nearly midnight where you are, so don't worry about timing. I just need to stop picking at it and let it be done already.

Seriously, thank you so much! You really are the best :D