Solaris

This is our rant and journal forum, any member who wishes to "speak" up about their day, or what irks them, they can now start a thread here, and rant away!
But like the rest of the boards in this forum, there will be some rules.
Those that are available in the main Aimless Babble still apply here, along with these next two:
One thing we wish to state, no rants about fellow AFF members or staff (including those who belong only to the main site). If you have an issue with someone on the forums (or the main site) please try to resolve it privately via the use of the PM system or by e-mail if both of you have e-mails listed here. If the other party is being abusive, or unresponsive, please bring it to the attention of the forum moderators for help in resolving the issue.
If you want feedback, or rather not, please make sure to state so in your thread.
Above all ladies and gentlemen, please respect each other's opinion. As all threads are going to be the personal opinions of those who start them, if something they say bothers you . . . do not read their posts.
And if you have a problem with a board member and you need a mediator to work things out, feel free to contact any of the mods.
Thanks again and feel free to rant away.
Beth

I write OC in different fandoms but I keep the past of the OC a mystery till I need to give it out.
But for my original stories, I usually discuss it within a few chapters or so.
Beth

This is our rant and journal forum, any member who wishes to "speak" up about their day, or what irks them, they can now start a thread here, and rant away!
But like the rest of the boards in this forum, there will be some rules.
Those that are available in the main Aimless Babble still apply here, along with these next two:
One thing we wish to state, no rants about fellow AFF members or staff (including those who belong only to the main site). If you have an issue with someone on the forums (or the main site) please try to resolve it privately via the use of the PM system or by e-mail if both of you have e-mails listed here. If the other party is being abusive, or unresponsive, please bring it to the attention of the forum moderators for help in resolving the issue.
If you want feedback, or rather not, please make sure to state so in your thread.
Above all ladies and gentlemen, please respect each other's opinion. As all threads are going to be the personal opinions of those who start them, if something they say bothers you . . . do not read their posts.
And if you have a problem with a board member and you need a mediator to work things out, feel free to contact any of the mods.
Thanks again and feel free to rant away.
Beth

She isn't mature for a 24 year old. I told her to read other people's stories and do the same with her story and rewrite her story. Send it back to me and I'll edit it. She e-mailed me telling me that she posted it. She was told to e-mail me the copy when she got it finished. She was told to send it to me but she posted it on FF.net. I left her a review telling her in no simple terms that a beta reader doesn't like being told that someone had posted a story before being edited, that is a slap to their face and I told her that don't consider me her beta reader anymore. She hasn't replied or sent me an e-mail since.
I told the girl I betaed for the ground rules with a warning not to piss me off with any funny business and she sent me the test chapter to test me, with plagiarized stuff in the story itself from another writer I was beta reading at the time. Yes, she is a known plagiarist on FF.net her name MrsOptimusPrime or Bonita Prime on FF.net. Her stories are crap and plus she plagiarizes other authors' work in her stories. I make sure the people who I beta read for understand what I look for from them after I edit their story.
I would give example of a page to the person I'm betaing for and tell them what I will be expecting from them as I will want to see the edits after I did the first edit as most people end up adding more to the chapter and I edit that before sending it back to them. Most of the time, I get it at least three times before it is posted online.
I will now beta read for only one person and she knows what I want from her amd I know what she wants from me.
Beth