I started on this site as Ravenwingcorps Beta. In all honesty, my best story, Persona 3: Fairly English Story is an insane Beta of the original game.When I write, I have a few disjointed ideas, and maybe a few prejudices, and they are stirred together and a plot turns up out of them. A lot of the other things happen by what I call emergence, which is what scientists and Terry Pratchett call emergence. In the process of writing the chapter, it starts to write itself. Logical things happen one after the other. What I have to do is make it make sense, and get someone else to look through it before I post it. Stuff turns up, important stuff that is of value to the plot, and to help me in my thinking. It handily turns up during the writing
When I beta, I also rely on emergence. What I have to do is lots and lots of editing, and point out stuff that turns up, make it work out, and let emergence take place, really.
No Lemons, Yaoi, or stupid pairings.
I can work with Emo, Mary Sues and bad plots. My job, as I see it, is to take what isn't that great and make it wonderful.