Writer: This is the dumbest, what even are words? Why do I even do this to myself? What’s the point? No one is going to like this at all!
Beta: *reads fic* *squees*
Beta: This is the greatest!!!!!! The characterization is spot on, it’s got the best imagery ever, the story is unique and engaging!!! That one part was 🔥🤯💦 You should write a part 2!!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼
Writer: ...
Beta: I only made a couple notes, but it was just for some comas
Writer: ...
Beta: are you OK??
Writer: are *you* OK??
Writer: *makes edits* *posts fic*
Fic: *posts*
Readers: *reblogs fic*
Readers: “[ keyboard smash ]🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥”
Writer: 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Writer (to Beta): maybe it wasn’t as bad as I thought it was...
In short, betas are important and necessary, and almost always right!!
And thanks to my go-to girl @deanwinchesterswitch for the beta assist on everything I’ve written in the last YEAR+!! 😘😘
Rules: Tag 10 people you would like to get to know better.
I was tagged by @pretty-fortune
I don't usually put this kinda thing on this blog, so Imma put it all under a cut...
Put your playlist on shuffle and name the first four songs.
My iPod is dead and my mom lost my charger, buuuuttt… I have Briana Buckmaster's CD on repeat in my car, The Middle came on the radio and made me cry the other day, Every You Every Me has been stuck in my head for 2 weeks since I'm writing Sucker Love, and whenever I type in anything that starts with “Ju” on YouTube, Pearl Jam's Just Breathe auto-populates
Grab the nearest book, turn to page 23, line 17.
“3. What will the hero's life look like if she does (or does not) get what she wants?”
- Donald Miller, Building a StoryBrand
I had to write a blog post about this book for a self-publishing company, @marturiapub, that me and my sister run...it's a pretty cool philosophy actually. (Also, A+ for rocking the feminine pronouns!!)
Ever had a song or poem written about you?
Why would… ?? Nm, does ones I wrote count??
When was the last time you played air guitar?
~11pm EST, Sunday night watching Buffy (headbanging included!)
Celebrity Crushes :
Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins, Aidan Turner, Jared Leto, Anna Kendrick, Briana Buckmaster, Kim Rhodes, John Barrowman, David Tennant, Taron Egerton, Jude Law, Johnny Depp, Taye Diggs, Amy Adams, Eliza Dushku, Joshua Jackson, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, the green/white ranger... (I'm digging into the archives now, Imma stop...damn, I'm old af...)
What is a sound you hate/love?
Hate: children; laughing, crying, singing, talking, anything... (I know, I'm horrible, I've already got my ticket booked for my first class Hell ride...it's like I have an anti-maternal gene)
Love: rain; hard, soft, on a window, on a tin roof, inside of a car, any where, any how...oh, and thunder (*eyes roll back in my head, toes curl, etc*)!!
Do you drive? And have you ever crashed?
Oh, yeah, and oh, yeah!
I was a professional bus driver in college and drove trolley buses after that for a few years, logged a ton of hours and had my share of accidents (none of which were my fault, some of which have given me PTSD! Super fun!)
Last book you read?
Like an actual book...and finished?? Um… Cress, from The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer (I've been meaning to read Winter, I just haven't gotten around to it yet...great series, fan-friggin-tastic world building!!)
Do you believe in ghosts?
Absolutely
Do you believe in aliens?
It would be naive not to
Do you like the smell of gasoline?
No. Diesel fuel, yes.
Last movie you saw?
Return of the King…?? Or Why Him…?? I can't keep my nights straight!
Do you have a obsession right now?
Weirdly, no. However I have fallen back into the Wincestiel fanfic bin on Ao3…
Do you tend to hold grudges?
Depends on who got hurt. Friends or family: you're dead to me; myself: depends on how you hurt me, unfortunately I'm fairly forgiving…
Are you in a relationship right now?
Single AF!!
ISO: a Dom into flighty fat chicks with bipolar who watch Supernatural and read/write fanfic 67.8% of the day! HMU LMFAO
