Beta request + recording a non-podfic

[luzula]

Is there anyone who'd like to read a half-written fic for me? I need a bit of feedback to keep me going (but not line-by-line beta reading at this stage). This is a mostly gen fic about Victoria after "Victoria's Secret". Basically, it's about her eventually getting over Fraser and working her way to a life mostly without crime. She ends up as a computer programmer/hacker, although I haven't gotten to that part yet, and I dread it because of the research involved. There will also be Victoria/OFC. Anyway, the fic is 5400 words now, and will likely be fairly long.

Am recording a book for Librivox now: Peter Kropotkin's autobiography "Memoirs of a Revolutionist", which I love. It's quite interesting to read something other than fanfic for a change, and luckily I have a half-Russian neighbor who is helping me with the pronunciation. Although I have to say that switching between English r:s, Russian r:s (which are like Swedish r:s) and French r:s is annoying. I can do each of them individually with no problem, but switching around makes me stumble.

Comments

[akamine_chan]

You can send it my way, sweetie. I love Victoria stories...*g*

[luzula]

Oh yay! Actually, you'll be a good person to look at this, because Victoria eventually settles down in the American southwest, probably somewhere in Arizona or New Mexico... : )

[jesse_the_k]

You ~~~rrrr~~~ our narrating queen! I look forward to read Kropotkin as read by you!

[luzula]

Hee, thanks. And I wasn't really expecting my fannish friends to want to listen to this, but I am happy that you do! I'll post with a link when it's done.

[jesse_the_k]

I'm feeling more anarchic the older I get, and if it doesn't make interesting reading, it will still be fabulous lulling-me-to-sleep music.

[luzula]

Oh, it's a great book. He writes a lot about Russian history and society, interwoven with his own life. He doesn't write much about his private life (in contrast with Emma Goldman, who writes all about her various lovers), but there's still quite a lot of drama (daring escapes from prison!). And there's one adorable moment when he graduates from military school as a youth and volunteers to be posted to Siberia, and one of his fellow officers goes: *gasp* "But their uniforms are so ugly!" Reminds me of Benton Fraser somehow, although Fraser doesn't have his anti-authoritarian streak.