Sometimes, I really am too nice...

[misscam]

Some of you who hang at the PPC board might remember this chick... Basically, this young author at ff.net published a Buffy/LotR crossover wherein Willow goes to Middle-earth, joins the Fellowship and woos Legolas. Said story was not very good. Among other things, it spawned ten new mini-Balrogs. Ten, people. Ten new ones. So anyway, I leave a review - fairly frank, but pretty polite and offering a few good resources she might want to look at to improve her writing. The chick then pulls the story, as she'd gotten quite a few not-so-good reviews. Fair enough. She then e-mails me to thank me for my review and blah, blah, one thing leads to another and now I'm her beta.

Yeah...

But I was remembering how horrid I was at 15 and how I once went all snotty on someone who tried to help me with a story when I was young and fresh and stupid. And she does seem eager to get help, even when I outlined all the horrors of having me as a beta. I just hope this won't be another MIL-fiasco. *slaps self for that* Oh well. We'll see, I guess. Cross your fingers for me.

And she did already make my day by asking me what race Norway was. I was so tempted to answer 'Skius Philautos', but she probably wouldn't have gotten that one (philautos is a Greek term meaning lover of self, so basically I just called Norwegians 'skiing self-lovers' which we rather are at times). But the thought amused me anyway. What race are Norway? There must be some fun faux-Latin phrase we can call ourselves... *ponders*

Oh, and bro is visiting. Say hi to my brother everyone.

Comments

[sasja-sokolov.livejournal.com]

*waves* Hi, Cam's brother. :)

But I was remembering how horrid I was at 15 and how I once went all snotty on someone who tried to help me with a story when I was young and fresh and stupid.

Ah, how I can relate to that. For me, the time I was young and moronic was just last year... I did a few stupid, stupid things I regret completely and deserve to be slapped repeatedly for. *sigh* Live and learn, I guess.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Indeed. But better to have been young and stupid than to be old and stupid still.

[greyladybast.livejournal.com]

Hi, Cam's brother!

[slickmeister.livejournal.com]

And she did already make my day by asking me what race Norway was. I was so tempted to answer 'Skius Philautos'


I usually answer '100 meter dash'. It makes them pause.

[slickmeister.livejournal.com]

Oh wait....HI CAM'S BROTHER!

[misscam.livejournal.com]

In Norway's case, I'd have to say a 5 km cross country skiing for that all important winter flavour.

[undeadgoat.livejournal.com]

Hi, Cam's bro!

Tell her that Norwegians are "callipygian". Means "having beautful buttocks". Or you could say, "Well, people think of us as [big fancy word that means blonde], but that's really just a stereotype." Unfortunately, I cannot remember any big words meaning blonde at the moment.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Norwegians have beautiful buttocks? Well, well. I suppose we could use that in our tourism adverts...

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

*waves hi* Hi Cam's Brother!

And I suppose becoming her beta just shows you that you're a big softy at heart who wants all those fan girls to become decent writers. Through pain.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Shhh, don't tell anyone!

[beautyid.livejournal.com]

Hullo, Miss Cam's brother! :-D

Tell her Norwegians are the same race as Canadians.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

*considers it*

Naaah, we suck too badly at icehocky.

[baronmind.livejournal.com]

Hi, Cam's brother! (Would that make him Mr. Sandman (http://www.volcano.net/~jackmearl/songs/msongs/mr_sandman.html)?)

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Young Mr. Sandman, yes. Dad's Mr. Sandman the Older (and when he was in the States, people were much amused at his name).

Ello!

[agent-hal.livejournal.com]

Ello, Miss Cam's brother!

She then e-mails me to thank me for my review and blah, blah, one thing leads to another and now I'm her beta.

So now you're her beta. *sigh* Good luck. Sounds like fun... I don't have a beta yet, and am young and inexperienced. *sighs again* I feel too young. I'm the youngest person on the PPC Board! Yep. My life. PPC. That's about it. And hi again Cam's bro!

Re: Ello!

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Lovely icon.

I shall probably need the luck. The spelling in her e-mails make my teeth ache. 'Ur'. Shudder.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

Maybe Cam's brother is THE Sandman. I have no trouble picturing Cam as one of the Endless...

Oh, and if someone asked me, "What race is Norway?", I would say, "Human, dear."

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Heh, I didn't think of that one. Or I could have gone, very deadbeat, 'we're polar bears, of course'.

I wouldn't mind being an Endless. I actually have a Neil Gaiman's Sandman t-shirt, which amuses me doubly.

[nymeria.livejournal.com]

Norway-Blocked up ski trail

Hello, Cam's evil minion brother!

[the-factionlair.livejournal.com]

Hello brother of the almight Miss Cam.

Good job on betaing a newbie, I know how useful it is to have another persons comments to help with your writing, especially if you are insecure about it. I know that having my beta look over my work makes me feel better. So good for you for making someones life better ^_^

[misscam.livejournal.com]

A beta is a good thing, but there are many different approaches to beta'ing and my approach may not be very helpful to this girl. We will see, I guess. Though if I can help her, it will have the added bonus of giving me an ego-boost.

[luhtarian.livejournal.com]

'Ello, brother of the Cam.

So, what race is Norway? *snigger*

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Polar bears, of course.

[irian.livejournal.com]

Yoroshiku, Cam-sama no aniki! (Japanese, translation: Greetings, brother of Mistress Cam!)

Hee. I do hope that you manage to wean the girl away from her Sueish ways. She seems rather amenable to this, and after all, she was the one who made the initial overture.

The what race are Norway part was funny. Maybe she was thinking in terms of Middle-Earth races? Lol.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Hmm, that is an interesting thought... What would Norwegians be in Middle-earth? Rohirrim, maybe. *ponders this for a bit*

Alas, wanting to learn and being capable to learn aren't always connected. Remains to be seen if this girl can do both.

*waves* Hi Cam's brother...

[cloudofcalm.livejournal.com]

And good bloody luck, Cam. That author was one I showed the PPC - because it was a last resort. She has been given huge amounts of advice previously on Buffy stories, started off lifting a *lot* from a kidfic of a really well known author on ff.net, and has had constructive crit from said same author. Beta-ing her... let's just say, I beta-ed someone very similar, and note, it was ME beta-ing her, and it was impossible.

So yeah... In the (slightly twisted) words of Blackadder

Hardly a 'cunning plan'...

And damn... I wanted to MST that story...

Re: *waves* Hi Cam's brother...

[misscam.livejournal.com]

*shrugs* If I can't help her, I can't help her. But I might as well give it a shot. If I can at least teach her something, she can build on it when she matures a bit. She is fairly young still. I mean, when I was 15... Remembering what I was like now, I sometimes have the urge to slap some sense into my younger, brattier self. Le sigh.

[starfishofelves.livejournal.com]

Hello Brother-Of-Cam!

[beregondsgirl.livejournal.com]

Hi, Miss Cam's Brother!

Boy, am I glad I read a lot of *good* fanfiction before I started to write... and I also read OFUM first...

I know now that Constructive Criticism is good, and that betas are my friends. :D So, hopefully, I will not have any problems with creating Minis and being dropped into OFUM. (But then again, I want to go to OFUM... would help my Tolkien knowledge)

I wish you much luck with this person. Sounds like you'll need it. But then, at least she wasn't snotty about your review. That's probably a good sign... *says the little n00bie who knows very little*

Hmmm.. just ran a spell-check on this, and it says OFUM is not a word. It doesn't like fanfiction, either. What was I saying about spell-checkers earlier?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Heh, my spell check does not like a lot of Tolkien words. But I just add them to the word list and problem solved.

So you'd think you'd like it at OFUM? A lot of people seem to think so, despite it being quite a mean place, from the student's perspective. Maybe I should make it meaner...

[megaera-1.livejournal.com]

Ello, Cams brother.

Good for the writer for wanting help, and asking. YAY for future generations.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Very summery icon :)

Not sure about the 'yay for future generations' though. A lot of the generation of the future makes me want to roll my eyes, have an aspirin and go to bed early.

[fiendery.livejournal.com]

Buonasera, Cam's Brother!
Or maybe it's morning over there...where the race of Norway lives. XD;;

Good luck with this author. At least she's willing to learn...?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

It is indeed very early Sunday morning and I have no idea why I'm up. I ought to be sleeping. Tis not healthy to be up so early on a day off.

'ello Miss Cams bruddah.

[git-the-goddess.livejournal.com]

fun faux-Latin phrases...

Hmm...
You could always just translate "beef and cheese toasted sandwich" into latin. :)

[dragonlet.livejournal.com]

"Hi to my brother everyone". Hee. Yeah, am a smart-alec, pardon me.

....Tell me, does this chick know where Norway is? You could say Vikings...wait, they were from Scandinavia....

Meh, I don't know latin anyway.