"I'm halfway to a vampire here."

*laughs* I should like... send you an email with a bunch of rambling about the world just to get your opinion! XD

I always wanted a fanclub. ;)

...GYAH! *Flails and fangirls and loves on and dies*

(Hormones have taken away all my coherency. Sorry.)

Although I'm warning you: if you do, I'll end up coming puppy-dog-eyes to you for input on my own worldbuilding, and the Valar only know how insane that gets sometimes in my head. *Wry smile*

*grins* I am always open to trading info and opinions on worlds. It's sometimes great to have an objective party take a look at stuff and go, 'Nah. It's shit. Do it again.'

:D?

Aah. The best editors and idea-bouncer-offers are not the ones who go "Oh, so amazing! One or two small things..." But the ones who go "Like A, B, C. D? Complete shit. Get your head out of your arse." *Grin*

When I did editing and betaing, I was a beast. XD People came to me because I would whip them into shape. If an idea sucked, I didn't bellyache or sugarcoat. If it sucked, it sucked, and I'd speak plainly.

Simple as that.

It's nice to meet someone who thinks the same way.

*Nods* I've only actually beta'd something (other than a PPCing, which doesn't fully count) once, and then... then I was kind of hard in exactly that way, although for reasons of trying to be... tactful I don't think I came out and said "This sucks." But I did enumerate most of the problems I found with it, and why. Certainly I'd much rather have someone tell me all that flat out and improve for it.

I'm one of those people who wants the truth, no matter what else. Truth matters. ...Hurts like hell, but it's still the truth. And is thus better. I got into an argument in English class over that.

(Your icon reminds me of the quote of Mark Twain's: "Of course reality is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.")

You're completely right, of course. The truth, no matter how much it hurts, is important. Especially when it comes to something like writing. I don't want to turn out shite. I want to turn out something that is quality, full of interest and ideas, twists and turns, and I want all of it to make sense. The only way to achieve that is to have a support system of people who tell you when something simply isn't working.

Just having Yes Men doesn't cut it.

You need people willing to give you their all, because you put your all in what you write.

/soapbox

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*Nods* Absolutely. If I want my ego stroked, I'll talk to my classmates and have them fangirl. I want an editor in a beta. There's also an element of trust involved--of trusting someone to tell you what they think of it, unvarnished, and trust in the person receiving it to take it seriously and not as a personal attack but as... criticism. And to consider them as an attempt to make for better writing. Truth brings trust in a relationship, and vice versa.

Which is why I usually effing hate FF.net, 'cause my GOD the fangirl cliques...! *Facepalm*

*/Soapbox*