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Hey there! I'm in search of a beta to take a second look at a story I wrote up. My first beta did a lovely job, however I seem to be lacking in the puncuation department and would like someone who's got a nose for notation to take a quick peek!
Name: muzic (Jen)
Email: muzicfan5@yahoo.com
Story title: Birth Control and Bananas
Summary: response to the Sex Ed Challenge at Potter_Place and the Petulant Poetess
Rating: MA/NC-17 (for smut in later chapters)
Category/Genres: humor, parody, romance, smut
Ship: Hermione Granger/Severus Snape (post Hogwarts, sort of POST hbp)
Warnings: smut, abuse. not together, just both included, and I'd like to think I did them tastefully.
Any special requests that the beta reader will need in beta reading for you.
just grammer/puncuation is really needed!
The story length is a little shy of 17,000 words and is compete. The first two chapters are posted online at the address listed below. Two more chapters are in queue for admin to approve. I was severely lacking in proper puncuation initially, but I read through it once again and was hardcore about adding in commas and the like. I may have gone over board... Also below is the rules and premise of the challenge. Please contact me if your interested!
http://www.thepetulantpoetess.com/viewstory.php?sid=3235
THE SEX ED CHALLENGE
Premise:
Parents in the Wizarding world have traditionally told their children about 'the birds and the bees' in their own time. But this is causing problems at Hogwarts (gee, problems with sex at a coeducational boarding school where the age range runs from the beginning of puberty to full hormonal fever pitch? Who could have guessed?)
The exact nature of the crisis is up to you; but whatever the triggering event or series of events, the Ministry of Magic and/or the Board of Governors has decreed that once a year, a class on ‘reproductive health' (or your favorite euphemism) will be taught.
Since we monkeys issuing the challenge aren’t interested in the educational quality of the class per se, the only absolute requirement for course content in your version of ‘Sex Ed at Hogwarts’ is that the little monsters must be told where babies come from. You decide how much detail you wish to go into, and which other topics to cover.
Naturally, no teacher will voluntarily touch that class with the proverbial ten-foot wand, so you decide which professor(s) draw the short straw.
Additional information:
1) Challenge commences July 7th and concludes August 21st (just in time for back to school frenzy to start kicking in!)
2) Length: 2,000 to whatever you can write within the time limit. No extensions, but if you go multichapter and haven’t finished it by the deadline, what you have up to that point can be submitted for voting. Any rating/category.
3) No ‘pairing’ requirements. You can have any or none. If you opt for ‘any,’ please keep everybody legal (if not ethical.)
4) Oh, and set it whenever you like—AU is fine; if you can shoehorn it into canon (pre- or post- HBP), also fine!
5) Post on TPP (The Petulant Poetess)
6) Voting will commence on Potter Place August 26th-ish, and the poll will close September 4th--so the 'cirriculum' will be all ready for the good professors when school starts up! MUHUHWAHAHAHA!)
Optional Shenanigans:
You don’t need to incorporate any of the following features—they are just suggestions to get you in the right frame of mind! 
--Someone is revealed to have an interesting kink or fetish as a result of the course. How public the revelation is up to the author.
--The topic of sexual injuries is brought up, to the extreme psychological trauma of every male within listening distance.
--The topic of menstruation is broached, and people are badly squicked.
--Someone (it matters not whom) asks the question (of anyone), "What was losing your virginity like?"
The answer is either
"None of your business" (at which the conclusion is reached, either correctly or incorrectly, that the respondee is still a virgin)
or
"Which time?" (You’re on your own for a follow up if you choose to use THAT answer!)
--Make up really freaky Wizarding STDs and/or discuss how wizards deal with those from the Muggle world. |
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