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Ratings I'll beta: •NC-17 •Adult Only
I can help with: •American English •Grammar •Plot Suggestions •Punctuation
Turnaround for an average length chapter: 1-3 days
Beta experience: Oct 2023: I've been reading for the lovely
honeygirl51885 and the lovely
alittlemoretime for a couple years now and you'll find my name pop up as beta here and there on other stories throughout EF too.
Story types/topics I will not beta: I'm not huge on underage stuff, though I understand it's part of canon. A little tends to be fine, but I'm not keen on sifting through tens of thousands of words about it
Additional Comments: So I'm a decently good copyeditor (as my day job is creating educational materials) and can tell your from you're, to from too and know when to properly use an 's. I'm big on BtVS, but less on Angel and haven't read any comics at all. I can review (Canadian) French. I like smut, but otherwise don't mind any type of story. I don't mind reviewing older stories too, if that's helpful.
My turnaround is usually a chapter (or 10 pages) a night, depending on how many authors I'm reading for. So if I've agreed to read for you but you haven't heard from me in a couple days, feel free to ping me.
I prefer working in Google Docs in 'Suggesting' mode, but am open to hearing about other workflow options if authors have their own preferences.
Ratings I'll beta: •G •PG •PG-13 •R •NC-17
I can help with: •British English •Grammar •Plot Suggestions •Punctuation
Turnaround for an average length chapter: 1-3 days
Beta experience: .
Story types/topics I will not beta:
Additional Comments: I don't have any experience betaing for anyone but I love reading and writing Spuffy and my grammar and punctuation are excellent. The biggest problem I have with writing my own stories is I forget what I have already put in and put it in again so I know that having someone look at a story with fresh eyes is really important.
Also technically I have Irish English, no different from British English but worth a mention I thought.
Ratings I'll beta: •G •PG •PG-13 •R •NC-17 •Adult Only
I can help with: •American English •Grammar •Plot Suggestions •Punctuation
Turnaround for an average length chapter: 4-7 days
Beta experience: none
Story types/topics I will not beta: All Human, character-bashing, post-canon or ATS settings
Additional Comments:
Ratings I'll beta: •G •PG •PG-13 •R •NC-17 •Adult Only
I can help with: •American English •Canon Elements •Grammar •Plot Suggestions •Punctuation
Turnaround for an average length chapter: 1-3 days
Beta experience: I haven't betaed any story but i want to try and help, i'm French but it's been ten years i've been reading stories. It's worth a try.
Story types/topics I will not beta: i will read any stories
Additional Comments:
Ratings I'll beta: •G •PG •PG-13 •R •NC-17 •Adult Only
I can help with: •British English •Grammar •Plot Suggestions •Punctuation
Turnaround for an average length chapter: 4-7 days
Beta experience: I don't have any experience but I really want to start.
Story types/topics I will not beta:
Additional Comments:
Ratings I'll beta: •G •PG •PG-13 •R •NC-17 •Adult Only
I can help with: •American English •British English •Canon Elements •Grammar •Punctuation
Turnaround for an average length chapter: 4-7 days
Beta experience: Will list later, or on demand.
The few I helped with were on anoth another site, and were more than 10 yrs ago.
Story types/topics I will not beta: Cruelty simply to write cruelty.
Additional Comments: Former TA to college English/Communications dept, but, hey, it's been 30+ years. BA candidate in History Education, emphasison research, minors/contextuals in Ancient Studies, American Colonial Experience Pre-Civil War, History/Social Studies Education. Historical re-enactor, 14th-19th cents, & WWII. Historical costumer. Needle & textile arts. Aviculturist, formerly owner/manager of working 400 + animal exotic bird farm, breeding/keeping/conserving/rescuing exotic birds/parrots; now just a hobbyist-breeder/pet keeper. Also raised & kept all manner of barnyard & game fowl on the farm, plus geese, sheep, goats, cats, dogs, & geckos. (So if ya need info or feedback about history, costumes/clothing, or animals, I'm your gal). Also, formerly a nurse, so familiar w/US medical & insurance processes, if anyone needs help w/that.
Ratings I'll beta: •R •NC-17 •Adult Only
I can help with: •British English •Plot Suggestions
Turnaround for an average length chapter: 4-7 days
Beta experience: I’ve beta’d for several authors ranging in several different fandoms. I’m strongest at helping you smooth out your prose, finding repetitive words and phrasing, and bouncing back and forth ideas for where wips can head to.
Story types/topics I will not beta: Genuinely happy to read most plots, but would prefer to keep non-con stuff not too graphic.
Additional Comments: I hail from Kent in England, close to the fictional homes of both Giles and Spike, so language and vernacular for those two characters I have a bit of an edge.
Ratings I'll beta: •G •PG •PG-13 •R •NC-17 •Adult Only
I can help with: •American English •Canon Elements •Grammar •Plot Suggestions •Punctuation
Turnaround for an average length chapter: 1-3 days
Beta experience: While I have not betaed, I am extremely well versed in the particulars of everything BtVS the show. My job required me to proofread and pay attention to small details for anything written for or by any staff member in the company.
Story types/topics I will not beta: All human
vampire Buffy
stories using the characters basic names/personalities but otherwise have little to nothing to do with the series
Any torture or rape that isn’t essential to the story line
Additional Comments: I’m not a fan of anything that portrays any of the characters in an extremely terrible or completely lacking flaws. For many years I was in charge of a business that required a lot of proofreading, grammar, punctuation, and making sure all new documents had the necessary elements from previous interactions and documents. I know the major plot points to the BtVS comics and the Angel & Faith comics as well having access to them all to refer to them. In addition, I know key elements in Angel.
Ratings I'll beta: •G •PG •PG-13 •R
I can help with: •American English •Canon Elements •Grammar •Plot Suggestions •Punctuation
Turnaround for an average length chapter: 4-7 days
Beta experience: I betaed a chapter of "A Slayers Fortune" by VeronaFiernan. I aslo betead "Inner Demon=Literal Cat" by Desicat. I have beta read for ClowniestLivEver multiple times. I've betaed a few other stories as well. I have participated in several workshop based creative writing classes where I read other students' work and offered my thoughts and suggestions.
Story types/topics I will not beta: I
will not beta stories with the following:
Sex scenes, especially very explicit ones. I don't want to read them, and you don't want me offering my advice on them. (I'd be willing to work with closed-door/fade to black or open door that is fairly brief like 1,000 words or less, and not all the explicit.)
Anything with rape/non-con/dub-con. Brief discussion of is ok as long as it's handled in a delicate way.
Anything with extreme violence/torture. Canon-typical is fine.
Incest. Sire/child could be considered pseudo-Incest but I am fine with it. True incest, however, nope, not gonna happen. Basically, I'd be fine with Angel(us)/Drusilla but not Joyce/Dawn.
Underage/adult. Only exception is canon relationships such as Buffy/Angel when she was still underage.
Additional Comments: My knowledge of canon is rock solid up for BtVS, for the most part. . My knowledge of AtS canon is shaky, S1 I'm good with, but it gets shaky after that. My knowledge of the comics is very broad ideas of a few storylines.
If I think you're character bashing I will tell you. (Personally I don't care for it, but it has it's place. If it's intentional let me know.)
Weird, niche knowledge about: Biology (cellular/molecular/biochemistry, anatomy and physiology, evolution etc), psychology, the Sims, folklore, cheerleading.
Will talk your ear about any of the above things. Loves to debate vampire biology.
I love to work with authors and help them talk through what they're trying to accomplish! I also try to give more neutral feedback and less value judgements, but willing to offer opinions. Basically I will adapt to what you're looking for.
Ratings I'll beta: •G •PG •PG-13 •R •NC-17 •Adult Only
I can help with: •American English •Grammar •Punctuation
Turnaround for an average length chapter: 1-3 days
Beta experience: Dynamite’s “The Worst Day Since Yesterday”
MaggieLaFey’s “Someone To Lean On” (Ch 8-10)
Feanix88’s “Stray” (Ch 7-10)
Story types/topics I will not beta:
Additional Comments: