Beta Bio: general description as a beta reader
Who I am as a beta-reader, huh? Well, I don't really know yet. I can only say that when I read a story, I try to do my best to give an accurate description of what the story's like from my point of view. I do the best I can to give a repport on the style, the grammar(because we ALL know a story's not worth reading if you CAN'T read it!), the storyline and, most of all, the feelings transposed into the story.
I can't always describe EVERYTHING, just like sometimes, I might offend.
NEVER intentionally, I promise! |
My Strengths: beta, writing, or reading strengths
I'm actually a moderately fast reader; I like to imagine each voice, every feature, and every tone while I read, which makes me a little slower than fast. I also do that while I write--I try to convey the intonation in the voices in writing. Which isn't always an easy thing.
When I'm really into a story, I can often read a few thousand words in a few hours, and easily finish a 100k word story in four days(depending on the amount of work I have to do at home as well). |
My Weaknesses: beta, writing, or reading weaknesses
When I'm bored with a story, I often give it up and forget all about it, to the point where I never even so much as give a second thought. I have a lot of icomplete stories in that fashion, really, but I try to pick them up where I left as much as possible.
Same goes for reading; sometimes I get bored and forget all about what I read, though most of the time I try to read to the end. Also, I can't go on without mentionning the fact that I sometimes can't afford to keep up with chapters as soon as they're published, which makes me late in reading, which causes me to lose interest. Because reading three chapters in a jolt really isn't healthy, and although I know that, it's always what I'm tempted to do. |
Preferred: types of entries I prefer over others
I would really prefer reading anime fanfictions and things based on fantasy series, such as the 10th Kingdom, Naruto, The Cat Returns, etc. I also like stories with a plot that diverges from the original story, something completely different from whatever you're writing from, to the point where the original series is lost in your own story.
In brief, this means that stories MUST be original, as much as possible. Clichés like "ZOMG she switchededed worldz mannnnnn" aren't really my forte.
Fanfictions based off of literature are also accepted with WIDE open arms! Though, again, mostly fantastic stories are what I read, such as Eragon or even Tahn(a christian novel, not very popular, I might add). Stories written by authors such as Agatha Christie aren't what I usually read, let alone appreciate...
Sometimes, if the story is suspenseful enough, I'll be tempted to read to the end just to quench the curiosity that drove me to begin with. |
Would Rather Not: types of entries I do not want to beta for
Crime stories, the kind where the girl gets killed and this woman tries to solve the murder while the men around her keep on judging, but one of them in secretly in love and all that jazz. It's predictable, it's too realistic, and I find it overall boring. There's not much place to the imagination, which, once again, is "not my cup of tea". And by the way, I prefer coffee. C:
An other thing I don't enjoy is LACK OF DETAIL. Mostly concerning the characters. I don'T very much enjoy not being able to picture the characters and their actions. The places are a must, too, seeing as I can't imagine someone doing something in a place I can't even see, or don't even know all that well.
An OTHER thing: long, LONNNNNNG stories that would take you four years to write, and almost equally as long to read. I never really read anything above the 150k word marker, and even then, I was rushing in the last chapters to know what happened in the end.
To find out that the story wasn'Tteven complete.
DECEPTION.
Last thing I should mention is the fact that I'm not a fan of stories that turn around what they call Mary-Sues, Original Characters that are, altogether, just TOO perfect. That fit in every way in the series you've placed them in, that just suddenly come out of the background to claim the limelight.
Noooo.
I like characters that are REAL, that have REAL problems and that live REAL lives, close to the 'audience', in this case, the readers. You know, things that hit close to home, that attrack the sympathy without having people realise what a blantant display of pitty-attraction it is.
THAT...
Or should I say THIS ALL.
Is not my cup of tea. C: |
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