User:Neshomeh

As of April 18, 2009, Neshomeh is a college graduate with her BA in English. As of the same date, she is also engaged to Phobos. She likes pretty much everything to do with language and stories, including reading, writing, and role-playing. She wants to write fantasy and science fiction books eventually, but in the meantime she's taking her red pen and working on becoming a book editor as a career with actual money in it. She also likes tea, chocolate, and cats.

PPC
Neshomeh has been a member of the PPC since 2003 and an Official Permission-Giver as of May 19, 2008. Although she is usually to be found on the Board, she writes sporadically at best, often falling into long periods of inactivity due to Real Life. She is trying to improve her writing habits.

Most of her work can be found at Neshomeh's Archive. She is responsible for Nurse Jennifer Robinson and her adopted son Henry, Nurse Mirrad, and the Department of Fictional Psychology, as well as DIC Agents Supernumerary and Ilraen-Aroline-Fothergill, who operate out of RC #999, and DMS Agents Derik and Earwig, who operate out of RC #1110.

She has also contributed content and editing to The PPC Manual: Second Edition, and she has recently become the leader of the "Lost Tales" project.

Agent Neshomeh
Agent Neshomeh is similar but not equal to Boarder Neshomeh. She appeared in one mission as an agent in the Department of Mary Sues, but that persona has since relocated to the Department of Personnel to be an Archivist. She is brown-eyed, brown-haired, bespectacled, and long-limbed. She tends to wear jeans and a t-shirt when it's warm or jeans and a soft, fuzzy sweater when it's cold. She is often seen with a mug of tea in hand. Outside of work, Neshomeh has occasionally shown that she can shapeshift into a telepathic winged cat. In this form, she has tortoiseshell fur and black wings with ginger bands and tips; her face is evenly divided between black on the left and ginger on the right. Her eyes are green.

She was owned by a mini-Balrog, Arasgorn, and a mini-Aragog, Severe. Then she moved, and the minis stayed behind in RC #1110. They are now the problem of Agents Derik and Earwig.

Beta-Reading
Neshomeh is willing to beta-read any type of mission in any of the continua listed in her infobox, and then some. If you're not sure if she knows something, just ask.

Should you wish to request her services, there are a few things she would like you to know ahead of time. First, make sure your story is in a .DOC file, because she prefers to use Microsoft Word's "Track Changes" feature to edit. It shows very clearly what changes she has made and allows her to leave comments and suggestions in the margins. Google Documents just doesn't match it.

Second, she takes time to read, absorb, re-read, correct, and double-check any story before sending it back, so if you're in a hurry, she's probably not the one you want. Expect the average mission to take at least a week to get back to you; more if it's longer or particularly in need of help. And then she'll want to check the re-write, too.

Finally, and perhaps most important, Neshomeh does not ask rhetorical questions when beta-reading. If she leaves a question in the margins, it means that something didn't make sense and needs to be addressed in the re-write. She has found that people often do not understand this without being told.

Other
Neshomeh has appeared in a few OFUs, including The Hogwarts Fanfiction Academy and In the Keeping of HFA (in which she is an Order of the Sphinx member), The Alchemists' Fanfiction Academy, and The Official PhanPhiction Academy. She has done beta-reading for the latter two, though not from the beginning.

In addition to writing and beta-reading, Neshomeh draws pictures. Her work can be found at her deviantART account. She also dabbles in graphic design and photography.

Contact
Generally speaking, it is easy to get Neshomeh's attention, should you want it. Here are some options:

The Board: Just page her in a post. She reads everything.

Her talk page

E-mail: exswyzie14 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com (with the obvious anti-spam substitutions)

AIM: ElJenn (though she'll have to add you as a buddy first, or she'll be invisible). The best time to catch her is in the evening, between 8:00 pm and 12:00 midnight, U.S. Central time.

If none of the above get results within a day or two, she is probably busy and/or unable to get online.