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Kali:
Anyone wanna beta 22 pages (in MS Word) of Dresden fic?  It's not finished yet, but I'm looking for:

- egregious grammatical errors (except those in speech, since people talk all messed up)
- continuity with Dead Beat
- repetition of phrases/words in close proximity.  For example, in the teaser I realized later that I used "sigh" a lot as a verb, and "around us/around him" within the same sentence.  It made things awkward and I sometimes don't catch that stuff until my fourth or fifth edit.

The continuity is most important.  You'll need to be very familiar with the story.  I will note that there shouldn't be anything outrageous; I even bought a new copy of Dead Beat when I started this, just so I'd have a copy to highlight and dogear and margin-note.

There'll be more to review before I'm done.

Oh, and to be picky?  If your spelling and grammar aren't at least as good as I display in my teaser post, please don't offer.  I need someone better than me to check me.

Blaze:
Do you have a target deadline?

Kali:
Not really.  It's getting written as I have time, and I shouldn't have much time today or tomorrow.  Ideally, I'll get a burst of inspiration and finish the initial draft this weekend.  I wouldn't want it sitting around for a month or anything.

Blaze:
Okies.  If no one else gets back to you by March, though...  lemme know.  I am booked until March.  Really. 

Starbeam:
Uhmm...doesn't this kinda fall under the probably shouldn't be mentioned on the board sorta thing?

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