#beta applications

[onepiecebigbang]

We're happy to announce that our signups are now open! You'll find the links below for each role, as well as the rules of the event. Be sure to check them out before applying!

🚢 First things first, the rules:

GUIDELINES ONE PIECE BIG BANG '23

WHAT IS A BIG BANG? A Big Bang is a collaborative event where writers and artists get together to create, respectively, a fanfic and an ar

🌴 For writers, it's this way!

One Piece Big Bang - Writers Apps

After submitting this form, you will be given a link to join the Discord server, joining is required for all participants.

🌞For artists, it'll be here!

One Piece Big Bang - Artist Apps

After submitting this form, you will be given a link to join the Discord server, joining is required for all participants.

🍹 Betas get their very special section here!

One Piece Big Bang - Betas Apps

After submitting this form, you will be given a link to join the Discord server, joining is required for all participants.

👒 And finally, the space for pinch hitters is here!

One Piece Big Bang - Pinch Hitter Apps

After submitting this form, you will be given a link to join the Discord server, joining is required for all participants.

If you have any questions about the project or the applications, we're available here, on twitter and on curious cat to help you. We can't wait for you to join the ship and have some fun! ⛵

@opfandombase thanks for any help ~

[deepwaterfiction]

BORDERLINE - Beta Reader Applications Open

Good morning noon and night everyone! If you’ve been following me for any amount of time at all, you’ll know I’ve got a manuscript I’ll be looking to traditionally publish within the year. Applications to become a beta reader for this manuscript - BORDERLINE - are now open. Please read the following post carefully before submitting an application.

Borderline is a Young Adult manuscript of ~99,000 words. It is a story told from four perspectives, following a group of teenagers living in a strange town called Florida as they attempt to rescue a long lost friend from beyond the veil between worlds. The back page and other introductory tidbits can be found at the bottom of this post, under the cut.

Borderline is a manuscript with themes including cosmic/eldritch horror, mystery, and adventure. There are elements of romance, but this is not a main focus/theme of the book.

Content warnings include: body horror/descriptions of injuries, unreality, hallucinations, insects/bugs, brief mention of sex, brief mentions of religion, brief mentions of underage drinking, brief mentions of firearms. *descriptions of body horror all fall in some way under the category of unreality.

Borderline features multiple mixed POC/Queer characters.

Applications will close at the end of this week (Friday the 24th), and successful applicants will be sent a link to begin the novel on the following Monday. As stated, the manuscript is almost 100,000 words long. The beta period will be eight weeks long, with comments on the final chapter due by Monday April 24. If you have doubts about your ability to finish a manuscript of this length in this amount of time, please do not apply.

I am not looking for line by line grammar edits. I am looking for general thoughts chapter by chapter, if you enjoyed the book overall, and if there were any instances where things were unclear or confusing. 

Below, you will find the link to submit an application. The application is eight questions long. Not all of the questions are required, but answering all of them will help your application. Please note that there is NO answer which will exclude you from being considered. As with my previous manuscript, I am looking for a range of experiences and backgrounds, so please answer honestly. I will be taking between three and five beta readers, depending on interest and variety of applications.

Please also note that if you are uncomfortable providing an email address, this does NOT need to be your personal email. The portal through which I host my manuscripts for beta (beta books) requires an email for access and providing feedback. This can be a temporary account created by you in order to participate.

Finally, if you do end up helping with beta, please remember that you're under no obligation to like the book. I like the book. If you hate it, that's your opinion, and I don't mind at all. But please give me honest beta. 

If you have any questions about the manuscript, or the beta process, please feel free to message me here!

Here is the link to apply

Please fill out the form by the end of this coming Friday, February 24th. I will post a reminder before applications close. See below the cut for back page and other tidbits previously posted to this blog.

BACKPAGE:

FLORIDA, Florida is a strange place. Tucked away into a corner of the state’s forgotten coast, all the locals know it stands on a borderline, where the veil is thin and mysterious forces wander alongside the human population. 

LIN O’LEARY, 17, is a high school dropout now working at the world’s weirdest convenience store. Six years after the disappearance of her best friend and childhood crush, Lin tries not to think about Momo Kasahara, keeps her head down, and regularly ignores the seven foot entity desperately seeking instant oatmeal. 

BO KASAHARA is the remaining twin, a high school junior balancing nihilism with varsity sports and mandatory pancake breakfasts. If he could only stop waking up on the beach without any idea how he got there, he might actually make it to graduation, and a university far away from the hometown that ate his sister. 

JULIEN TRUE is ambition on legs, lugging a bag full of spirit tracking equipment down Florida’s quiet streets. Determined to shoot his first miniseries before college starts, he’s fine with the creepy motel and unhelpful locals, as long as he learns something, anything about the Kasahara girl. 

When a grown up Momo appears like a ghost in Lin’s convenience store, the three of them are united in the search for answers about the borderline that might help them rescue her. Because Momo Kasahara is not a ghost at all.

MOMOKO KASAHARA is impossible to find, and pissed about it. Stuck somewhere outside of reality, she’ll try anything and everything to pass the endless hours, survive another day. The forest is hiding something from her, the sky is always gray, and her neighbors don’t have faces. It’s save herself, or become something that can never go home.

SELECTED CHAPTER TITLES

100% humidity feels like breathing underwater.

Cloudy with a chance of hotdogs (haunted).

The girl in the grocery store is usually me.

Did you or did you not bring my seven dollars and eighty five cents.

So drink good health, you sailors!

I’m going to waterboard you with tartar sauce.

Ittekimasu.

Power ten in ten!

Rorschach drew his own inkblots.

I’d like to solve the puzzle.

I live in this bathroom now, actually.

No crying over what now?

Hi nauseous, I’m dad.

Three blind mice.

Lin O’Leary has left the building.

Ouroboros.

CHARACTER PLAYLIST

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BETA APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN

Hello everyone! As the game becomes more intricate (and larger) I've decided to reopen beta requests to take in a few more applicants. The pending move to twine as well means that more beta readers could be hugely beneficial in helping with the flow of everything! Applications will be open until December 21st and can be found here!

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There are three days left!

Applications close on February 22nd!

Here are the links!

Artist apps

Writer apps

Beta apps

Linktree

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There are two weeks left to apply!

Links: Artist apps Writer apps Beta apps Mod apps

[avatarbaang]

Do you ever read something and want to use your awesome grammar skills to fix it? Do you ever want to work with a writer to help them develop their story to its fullest? Well, now you’ll have that chance!

The Avatar Baang is proud to announce that beta applications are now open! They won’t close until November 12th, so you have plenty of time to decide whether or not you want to join the event.

Be sure to check out the schedule as well as our guidelines to better inform yourself.

Can’t wait to work with you all!

Beta Application

Join the Discord!

If you have any questions, send in an ask or message one of the mods on Discord. We will try our best to respond as soon as possible!

[onepiecebigbang]

☀️ Reminder that our signups for artists and betas are open for 5 more weeks! If you want to collaborate on a project with a writer, now's the perfect time to join! Any sailors who want to join our ship are welcome at any time ~ All the information is available under the cut!

First up, a little reminder of the rules, in case anything is unclear or you want to check the dates again!

ONE PIECE BIG BANG '23 - GUIDELINES

WHAT IS A BIG BANG? A Big Bang is a collaborative event where writers and artists get together to create, respectively, a fanfic and an ar

For artists, you can sign up here!

One Piece Big Bang - Artist Apps

After submitting this form, you will be given a link to join the Discord server, joining is required for all participants.

Betas get their own section on our ship, and it's right here to sign up and join us!

One Piece Big Bang - Betas Apps

After submitting this form, you will be given a link to join the Discord server, joining is required for all participants.

Finally, before we depart, if you want to be a pinch hitter you can apply here!

One Piece Big Bang - Pinch Hitter Apps

After submitting this form, you will be given a link to join the Discord server, joining is required for all participants.

Have a safe trip, and may we meet again on the sea 🌊

[deepwaterfiction]

Hi! I'm interested in betaing Borderline, but I was wanting to know before I apply what the reading and commenting would be through. Would it be via Google Docs, Microsoft Word, or something else? Could I read and comment on mobile, or would I have to do that solely on a computer?

Hi! I use the application BetaBooks, information on which can be found here.

While you do need internet to access the manuscript through this site, I have no reason to believe you could not access it on mobile.

I have used BetaBooks before to great results. Readers do need to make an account, but this is completely free. BetaBooks offers an easy way to add your comments to each chapter, as well as in chapter highlighting and note taking capabilities.

Thank you for the question!

- L