Thank you. I was beginning to feel a little unloved--I love it, and my beta loved it, and I had fun writing it, but ... nobody was saying anything!
I've never actually read anything by Forster; that comes from the comment Jenny made about him lending her a 1st-edition Forster that had belonged to his father in (iirc) The Dark Age. The title--I am so bad at titles, normally, so when I actually came up with something cool, I was shocked.
It didn't go where I expected it to go. I am a Buffy/Giles shipper at heart; I was expecting it to be mostly about Giles and Buffy working through things. Except Giles didn't cooperate, and neither did Dawn, and it turned out to be about the two of them instead.
My beta improved it about 100% by making me go back and fix the things that were broken in the first draft. I think that once names are revealed I'm going to post the first draft, her comments, and the final draft in my LJ to give an example of what a good beta does for a story--there have been a lot of writing-meta pieces floating around lately.
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I've never actually read anything by Forster; that comes from the comment Jenny made about him lending her a 1st-edition Forster that had belonged to his father in (iirc) The Dark Age. The title--I am so bad at titles, normally, so when I actually came up with something cool, I was shocked.
It didn't go where I expected it to go. I am a Buffy/Giles shipper at heart; I was expecting it to be mostly about Giles and Buffy working through things. Except Giles didn't cooperate, and neither did Dawn, and it turned out to be about the two of them instead.
My beta improved it about 100% by making me go back and fix the things that were broken in the first draft. I think that once names are revealed I'm going to post the first draft, her comments, and the final draft in my LJ to give an example of what a good beta does for a story--there have been a lot of writing-meta pieces floating around lately.