I'm a professional editor. That means I get paid to fix people's writing. That means I'll rearrange commas, chop up sentences for readability and most certainly fix misused vocabulary. If there are consistent problems, I'm quite likely to send it back and ask you to please fix them before I proceed further on in your story. I'm not often nice to the writers I'm paid to critique, I imagine I'm less nice if I'm doing it for free.

Beside basic spelling/grammar/punctuation, I will read a story for continuity, storyline and word usage. I'm not interested in telling you what you should write ... but I am a big fan of keeping the English language as a tool for effective communication. I *will* let you know when I've enjoyed something, when a particular idea or turn of phrase is effective or evocotive. I will also tell you when I don't like something.

To be honest, the better writer you are, the worse of a beta I become. If I'm enjoying a story so much that I'm caught up in it, I'll generally forget that I'm supposed to be beta-ing and just sit back and enjoy the story. I *do* try to remain somewhat effective.

I love to beta in all of my fandoms - anything by BioWare (NWN, JE, KotOR I and II, M.E., Dragon Age) and occasionally Oblivion. I will also consider other fandoms, but I will say if I know too little about it to be of any use to you. I tend to enjoy darker, more mature writing, but am absolutely thrilled to come across well-done humour.

If your writing contains anything that resembles "OMG!" or "plzthx" or, really, any self-indugent, Mary Sue-ish emo-fapping, I will send it back. (Edit: I will also ignore any beta-requests that include the aformentioned 'Net-speak' - including the use of 'u' or 'ur' instead of 'you' or 'your')I'm not a huge fan of slash, but can enjoy it if it's well done.

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Movie Dark Crystal Movie House of Flying Daggers Game Jade Empire

Game Mass Effect Game Neverwinter Nights Movie Replacement Killers

Game Star Wars Tv StarTrek: Voyager Tv Supernatural

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Poetry Adventure Angst Supernatural

Suspense Sci-Fi Fantasy Tragedy

Hurt/Comfort Friendship