Need help with grammar? Spelling errors? Plot outlines or just a way to jazz up your story? I'll be more than happy to beta anyone's story. I'll give helpful tips and advice on how to make your story better. I will provide criticism, so if you can't take that, please don't ask me to beta you. I won't be mean to you, but I will be blunt. I'll give honest and thoughtful ideas to how to make your story better by either adding character development, taking out subplots that drag the story down or having you expand on ideas that you've mentioned, but haven't explored. There are a lot of different ways that we can make our stories better. For some of us, it's focusing on the smaller details and making them come to life. For others, it's building on character development as well as focusing more on the main plot of the story and less on the other subplots that can bring a story down if the flow is interrupted too many times. I used to work as a copy editor for a printing company, so I do have experience reading and correcting stories. I'll be more than happy to read or review your story and offer guidance and advice whenever I can. Fanfiction is a wonderful place and I enjoy reading the different stories here on the site. We all have our own unique way of writing and by reading the works of others, it makes us better writers in the end.br /



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Also, please don't try to sound smart and use the word "whilst." I can't think of a word I hate more and will always change that to something else every time I see it.

Spelling and grammar are two areas at which I excel. It drives me nuts that so many people today think that you're/your are the same word and the mix up of their/they're/there is another one of my peeves. We all make mistakes in life and I'll help you with your stories to make them better and easier to be read. Also, when something ends with an "s" the proper way to punctuate is not s'. It's is 's. So if your character's name is Davis and we are discussing his car, the proper way to punctuate this is Davis's car and NOT Davis' car. That drives ME NUTS. The worst thing of it all is news outlets like CNN and MSNBC are guilty of doing that as well as magazines such as People and Us Weekly. Again, it's Davis's, not Davis'. Rant over. I know some people on this site use English as a second language, and I've been told that English is a hard language to learn because of the rules that apply in certain situations and in others, the rules are thrown out. I'll take this into consideration if you let me know you're not a native English writer. I can provide tips and ideas to help you make your story better. When it comes to history vs your story, I tend to just let that go. I believe that with writing at FanFiction, we have the power to change history or edit details in history that make our story better to read. It's all fantasy and fiction, so it doesn't matter if what happens in your story was how it was done to the letter in the past or even now in the present day. That's one of the best things I like about writing about FanFiction: It gives the writer a whole new avenue to explore when writing. You're able to take an idea from a movie, a book or a TV show and expand on it to take the story in a whole new direction than it was taken in the beginning. I'm all for creativitiy and bending the rules. I'm not going to judge you on how you bend the rules, unless it's just so far fetched that it makes the story boring. I've betaed a few stories here on FanFiction and I have yet to see one that was just so out there, it didn't make sense. So use your imaginaion! Unleash it and let your fingers tap out the story YOU want. There is always going to be someone that hates your story. There are always going to be people who love your story. Concentrate on writing what YOU want to write about and not what history dictates or the pattern of other stories in the genre you've chosen to write.

Sometimes when I get in a hurry, I make mistakes that spell check in Microsoft Word can't catch. Word doesn't know the difference between see or sea for instance. Only after going back and reading my stories again can I catch the mistakes and edit them. When betareading a story, I tend to read it multiple times and make out a list as I'm reading of ways to make your story better. This might be considered a weakness as it may take me a couple days to get back to you on this. I'll print it off and read it a few times before I get back to you. I want to make sure I have a complete understanding of your story and your writing style before I comment on your story ideas. I want to make sure that everything I critique you on is backed up with pieces from your story so that you'll be able to see exactly what I mean and be able to make any adjustments.

I'll read and beta anything. I'm not saying I'll be able to follow your storyline or characters if I don't follow the series you're writing about or the characters in the story you use if I don't follow the movie/book/TV show, but that doesn't mean I don't know how to critique and check for errors. My favorite stories are Titanic, CSI, Burn Notice, In Plain Sight, ER, Due South, Golden Girls, The Shield, Dawson's Creek, Trauma, Twilight, Flashpoint, Prison Break and Law and Order SVU. I've seen a lot of movies and I'm a fan of a lot of TV shows that air, so I've got a pretty broad range of knowledge when it concerns pop culture. I'm not ruling any genre out or any TV show or movie out. I'll be more than happy to look at any story, even if I don't follow the show/movie/book that you based your FanFiction on.

I haven't really gotten into the Harry Potter craze or the "tween" shows like iCarley or whatever Miley Cyrus's show is called and the rest of them, but I do know how to properly construct a sentence, so if that's what you're looking for, then please allow me to beta you. I generally don't like slash stories, but if they aren't too X rated, I'll give them a whirl.

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