I beta-read my sisters' stories and other papers and enjoy it very much. When I am in the mood, I am very nit-picky and willing to help with many aspects of a story... everything from plot development to grammar and sentence structure. What I expect of a person whose stories I will read for is that they are open to suggestions and will give me at least 3 days to proofread a document.

As a beta-reader, I believe that my strengths lie in the grammar section and helping people talk through a plot. It is very easy for me to spot misspelled words, or sentence structure that would sound better if it were to be changed around a little bit. I also don't mind researching a bit or a part of your story where facts are needed to be found and corrected.

My weaknesses lie in keeping track of many different characters in a long story or wording dialogue correctly for characters that must be kept cannon. Sometimes I just can't imagine something they would say, so I am not much help there.

I love stories that are interesting, though it is all a matter of perspective. I like stories that are descriptive and give you lots of information. Except in a few cases, I mostly like characters from a story to be in character and the romances not to far-fetched. For Harry Potter, I like HPGW and HPHG. I can see many different things as not being to far out there, but some things are just bizarre. I like romance stories that aren't all about there physical relationship too, especially if they are really sweet. I also really like stories that are based in the Japanese culture.

I refuse to read any story with any kind of slash or very sexual romances. Self-inserted characters are ok, as long as they don’t become Mary-Sues. As I said before, I also don’t want to see romances that are very unrealistic, like Draco Hermione or Hermione Snape

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