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## A Trans-Dimensional Gate: Chp0 First Knockout (Stargate)[RT][FF]
* Author: u/None *
* URL: https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/21562431/
* Score: 6
* Created: 2016-04-02T19:21:37
### Post:
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### Comments:
> **u/sparr** [+8] (21 minutes later)
>
> Three grammar mistakes in as many sentences. I bailed by the end of the second paragraph.
>> **u/luminarium** [+3] (an hour later)
>>
>> I did too.
>> **u/None** [+1] (40 minutes later)
>>
>> I really need a beta, but I never found any longstanding volunteers to give the feedback as I needed, in the times that I asked for one.
>>
>> It's going to take ongoing feedback to get my technical writings up to notch, and I am afraid that's too much time for the vast majority of people.
>>
>> So I write blind. And it will continuously annoy the hell out of people.
>>> **u/FuguofAnotherWorld** [+6] *Roll the Dice on Fate* (6 hours later)
>>>
>>> Even without a beta, tenses and spelling aren't so hard to notice by yourself on a second draft/readthrough. Unless you're a non-native speaker?
>>>> **u/None** [+2] (a day later)
>>>>
>>>> Yes. I am a non-native speaker.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, there are things I am going to go miss. Otherwise, I would not need a beta.
>>>>> **u/nolrai** [+1] (2 days later)
>>>>>
>>>>> No. .you would still need a beta, just not as badly. Finding people to edit your work should be easy though, at least of you only ask for a small amount at a time.
>>> **u/sparr** [+1] (8 hours later)
>>>
>>> Try just using an automated grammar checker. It's better than nothing.
> **u/None** [+3] (an hour later)
>
> Anybody wants to volunteer as beta?
>
> I constantly get complaint from people who bailed out on my stories because of my lack of technical writing chops and poor grammar.
>> **u/Pakars** [+2] (16 hours later)
>>
>> Currently betaing your first post of the reboot on SB - Going to send it as a PM message when I'm done.
>>
>> If you like it, I might be up to beta more. It's not like I have more productive things to do while waiting for calls at work. Reading nonfiction can get draining after a while.
>>
>> Edit: Done, with a pass-through that took around half an hour. Check your PMs on spacebattles. The most 'comma-en'(hue) mistakes are misuse of commas(mostly overuse) and incorrect tense/word choice(Had/have/has, etc.). The early parts of the chapter have a higher incidence of mistakes than the later parts.
>>
>> Make whatever changes you desire, then strip the color formatting I used.
>> **u/JulianWyvern** [+1] *Wayward Wanderer* (8 hours later)
>>
>> I do actually, certainly interested to see a Stargate rational story. That said you probably want to find someone else too, english isn't really my first language
> **u/SvalbardCaretaker** [+2] *Mouse Army* (31 minutes later)
>
> Whats the Carter Father-Daughter Blackhole Special?
>> **u/None** [+3] (42 minutes later)
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>> Recall the episode in which General Carter and his daughter utilized what they learned in *A Matter of Times* to make the local star implode in a supernova.
>>
>> Presumably, this can be done with any two stargate and a black hole....which is super duper scary.
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