northtreker 's Beta Reader Profile |
Author has written 3 stories | Life Unexpected, X-Men: Evolution, and Star Trek: 2009. |
β : northtreker is a registered beta reader and is currently accepting beta reading requests.
Beta Description
Beta Bio: general description as a beta reader
Hello, I'm your friendly neighborhood northtreker. I've written a few of my own things (although the closest I've come to published was one performance of a play of mine at a community event) and now (because I got incredibly bogged own) a few things for here too. I love to write, and to read, a would love to read and help you write your own stuff. I'm pretty responsive, although I probably won't be the fastest beta reader out there but I am pretty thorough. I'll give functional as well as stylistic advice, but I would never rewrite anything. Ultimately, it's your story. I also harbor no illusions that I'm always (or even particularly often) correct. Take what advice you want, discard the rest, or all of it. It really won't bug me. |
My Strengths: beta, writing, or reading strengths
I have a decent vocabulary and am marginally well versed in modern grammar. I'm good at showing some of the more basic "show don't tell" tricks that makes prose pop a little better. I'm also very good at detail, I keep track of plot consistencies and can help keep things coherent. I'm also reasonably good at maintaining established character from works I'm familiar with. All that and I come with an ego you can more or less fit in your average wheelbarrow. |
My Weaknesses: beta, writing, or reading weaknesses
I got into fanfic writing because masters courses were taking up so much time that I couldn't work on my novel. I need a writing exercise to keep in practice, and, after years of reading fics, writing one (or a few) seemed like the natural choice. But this also means that I probably won't be able to get to you the same day. Within a week, unless your drop ten thousand words on me, should be doable, but I probably won't be the fastest beta in the world. |
Preferred: types of stories I prefer over others
No, I'm interested in pretty much everything. |
Would Rather Not: I do not beta for these stories
Racism, even fantastic racism really wears on me. As does character bashing. I'm more the Vonnegut school: I don't really believe in villains as such. I think everybody has reasons (even if they are only justifications for themselves) for why they do what they do, and, more to the point, why their side _is_ the good. Consequently, I have a hard time for the evulz characters seriously. Other than that I have no real hangups. |
Beta Preferences
Language: English |
Content Rating: Fiction K » M |
Categories: categories in black are ones this beta has authored for
Book 1984 Book A Christmas Carol Book A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy Book American Gods Book Anansi Boys Book Animorphs Tv Arrow Cartoon Avatar: Last Airbender Cartoon Beetlejuice Book Beowulf Book Bleak House Tv Brimstone Tv Burn Notice Book Catch-22 Book Catcher in the Rye Cartoon Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers Book Chronicles of Narnia
| Book Clive Cussler Cartoon Code Lyoko Anime Cowboy Bebop Cartoon Danny Phantom Cartoon Daria Book Desperation Book Edgar Allan Poe Anime Ergo Proxy Game Fallout Cartoon Family Guy Tv Farscape Game Final Fantasy VII Game Final Fantasy X Game Final Fantasy XIII Tv Firefly Game Grandia Cartoon Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
| Game Gunstar Heroes Book Harry Potter Game Heavenly Sword Tv House, M.D. Book Hunger Games Movie Inception Movie Independence Day Movie Indiana Jones Book K-PAX Anime Last Exile Tv Lexx Tv Life Unexpected Tv Lost Girl Anime Naruto Tv NCIS Cartoon Pirates of Dark Water Play Shakespeare
| Book Sherlock Holmes Book Slaughterhouse-Five Game Sonic the Hedgehog Anime Spice and Wolf Comic Spider-Man Movie Star Wars Tv StarTrek: The Next Generation Movie The Good, the Bad and the Ugly/Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo Comic V for Vendetta Movie WALL-E Tv Warehouse 13 Comic Watchmen Book Wheel of Time Anime Witch Hunter Robin Comic X-Men Cartoon X-Men: Evolution
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Genres: genres in black are ones this beta has authored for
General Romance Humor Drama Poetry Adventure
| Mystery Horror Parody Angst Supernatural Suspense
| Sci-Fi Fantasy Spiritual Tragedy Western Crime
| Family Hurt/Comfort Friendship
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