Hello romancers Is anyone up for beta'ing my contemporary romance? I have conflicting feedback and I need people I can trust to help me sort it all out. It's 93,000 words and mostly of the more fluffy romcom kind, rather than dark and wrenchy. Totally a word. I'm crap at summarising but the gist is a cynical scientist is sent to Loch Ness to study a parasite in the water, and is stuck with an unscientific assistant who believes in the Loch Ness Monster. A bit of enemies-to-lovers but it's not really trope driven. SPAG should be pretty much there - probably some typos I've missed - and it's the plot stuff I need help with. Does the romance work, is anything unbelievable, etc. Anybody got time to help a romancer out? Tagging because I don't get notifications for this forum... @BayView @Laurin Kelly @Trish @Pauline
I'm developing a fairly strong paranoia (except maybe it's TRUE) that I'm not getting e-mails. But possibly people just aren't sending them... So, @Tenderiser, if you sent me this MS, I didn't receive it. And other forum members, if you beta'ed something for me and sent it back and I didn't respond with the effusive gratitude you deserve, it's because I didn't get the e-mail. Possibly you guys are just all really busy and doing other things and everything's fine, and I haven't been nagging because if that's the case you definitely don't need to be nagged. But... possibly I'm not getting e-mails. Let me know if you sent something and expected a response but didn't get one.
I haven't sent it. I had a brief moment of motivation but now I'm back to 'can't be bothered to write ever again.' We do ignore you, though. It's not paranoia.
I'm fine with you guys ignoring me (I expected nothing better, frankly) but I'd feel really bad if someone sent me beta notes and I ignored them. Because I am a decent human being. Not something you'd be familiar with, I don't suppose. ETA: I'm always tempted to put a little smiley face at the end of these messages to show I'm joking, and then I always resist the temptation. Because maybe I'm NOT joking! Ha!
About this... I kind of hit a writing slump and this manuscript has been roundly ignored. Thank you again for the offers and sorry I suck.