First up, I am willing to put in a lot of effort if the author is willing to listen and be reasonable and accept the fact that sometimes you really do just need another eye to glance over everything and make sure it looks right. While I would prefer a high level of competency with the English language, anyone who is aware that they have shortcomings in grammatical and spelling areas and is willing to do something about it is more than welcome to my services. All I ask of the author is to be patient and reasonable and aware of their own shortcomings and be willing to improve upon them.
I focus mostly on sentence-level details. I expect to be merely a basic editor and proof-reader. This is your story with characters you want to act in a certain way; I try not to infringe upon authorial intent as much as possible. However, should I find problems on a sentence-level that severely impact the general flow of the story which then may impact the story as a whole I will work as hard as possible to help fix other details that disrupt the story.
Basically, I am not writing your story for you or fixing your mistakes, I'm merely polishing the finished product so that you can be proud of your own efforts as a writer.

I excel when working with grammar and sentence-level details. If something 'sounds' wrong, I can generally pick it up and figure out how best to reword the sentence so that it doesn't disrupt the story's flow and the reader's attention.

I don't work well with other people's overarching themes and plot-lines. I shouldn't need to know where the story is going in order for me to work on getting it there.
Also, I'm Australian. Our spelling and lexicon almost completely follows the British system. i.e. coloUrful, organiSe.

I'm mostly non-discriminating when it comes to beta-reading.
Generally I prefer stories that are similar to my own, though I am willing to work with almost anything.
I work well with slash, femslash, het and gen stories, so authorial preference is no real problem for me in regards to pairings.

I would prefer not to beta shorter stories. Definitely nothing under 1000 words (unless it is a chapter for a larger work).
Also, AU high school/college romances in anime/games are not my thing - I get twitchy just reading the summaries.
I'd rather not work with M-preg either.

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