Saying I need a beta is an understatement

[barbayat]

Title: Always an Alpha
Genre: Horror/Crime/Adventure
Pairings/characters: Peter/Lydia
Type of beta you'd like: SPag but with an emphasis on making awkward sentences better
Length, or word count: 240k+

Short Summary: A lot of murders are happening in Beacon Hill and it turns out that one of them can only be stopped by Lydia but she needs Peter's

Comments

[naemi]

Hey there *waves*

First off: I'm not a native speaker-but I do a lot of beta-reading, I write in English only, and, irl, I'm an English to German translator (fantasy and horror novels), so I daresay my grasp of the English language and language in general is quite okay :o) (If I don't sound like it now, blame it on me partying with me bff before I sat down to comment ^.^)

Due to my esl, I may not always be right on track with punctuation and grammar, but what I know to do well is to edit the heck out of any story. I can be very nitpicky-some might say harsh at times, but never rarely intentionally =D-or just a bit; whatever you prefer. If you need someone to take a look at style, redundancies, flow, narrative or logical issues and so forth … I might be able to help out. (I do catch some grammar stuff, but, sadly, not all of it.)

What I could do is to point out anything from major "issues" to details. (Mostly details. I'm horrible.) I'm not someone to "do the work for you," meaning I won't usually make corrections, but suggestions

[barbayat]

Hi, well this is a nice email notification to find see after the other terrible e-mail I got in my other inbox today - so thanks for that to begin with :D Yeah, I looked before and then basically let everything slip for what seems an eternity. :(

What I could do is to point out anything from major "issues" to details. (Mostly details. I'm horrible.)

That sounds like my type of beta - no seriously, I never found a beta who actually is horrible or harsh or nitpicky, even if they said make me rewrite everything (which happened briefly on chapter 17, but my friend hated teen wolf and that was the only chapter she did :P) as what seems clear in my head is often less clear to the reader and sometimes not clear at all to anyone.

I got all stories up at gdocs, so if you like I can sent you an invite, my mail is barbayat [at] gmail [dot you know the rest] ;)