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betaplease2013-12-28 03:38 pm
barbayat) wrote in betaplease2013-12-28 03:38 pm
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Betas for various stories/fandoms wanted
1. Pen Name: Barbayat
2a. Fandom: Star Trek Into darkness
3a. Rating of the story: PG-13 (like the movie)
4a. Spoilers/Time Line: Set five years after STID
5a. Pairing: Khan/OFC
More Info: Written 14 chapters (my beta dropped out), Chapter 15 is roughly 2.8k and the last one might get a tiny bit longer. I'd really like to finish this one.
2b. Fandom: Teen Wolf
3b. Rating of the story: M ...
4b. Spoilers/Time Line: Set after season 3 episode 12 with a month
5b. Pairing: Stiles/Peter (first story), then later in sequels in addition Lydia/Peter, Stiles/Isaac, Lydia/Stiles, Isaac/Peter
More Info: wrote the first story for SS with no time to have it beta-read so I would love to find someone willing to look at the 33k story and then maybe as I keep writing the sequels to help me out with that as well.
2c. Fandom: Matrix Trilogy
3c. Rating of the story: R (zombie related violence, little sex and talk about it)
4c. Spoilers/Time Line: set a few decades after the trilogy
5c. Pairing: OFC/Agent Johnson (established relationship, more a backdropping after the first chatpers)
More Info: used to have a beta, posted two chapters. Focuses mainly on the Agents, Smith is ressurected from a back up copy and has a hard time dealing with how the Matrix is run these days, then a virus mimics a Zombie apocoalypse and things get from bad to worse. Brown and Jones will also have larger role, Johnson, Jackson and Thompson are not that present but Johnson has larger role than the other two.
6. Beta Type: Plot, characterization, flow ...
7. Harshness: Be as nitpicky as you want, if you feel something is not okay, don't beat around the bush.
More Info
Right now looking more for alpha readers for my stories: someone to discuss problems with the plots, characterization issues and other stuff. I worry too much about getting stuff right, so having some feedback and thus sense that I am not heading into the wrong direction is very helpful.
The exception is the Star Trek and Teen Wolf story.
The ideas are plopping in my head like crazy, that is not the problem, more like making sure that what I want to say comes across and that I don't overlook plot holes or that I might get a character wrong.
Once, the story stands, then I'll worry about SpaG. After all, there is no use to polish a paragraph you have to re-write due to plot problems. Not that I mind feedback on grammar, if it is a need for you to make correct it. I just think it's something that can wait once the chapter is really done and flows.
We can use google docs and you can bombard the chapters with as much comments as you like. Even if you just think, you don't have much time, every bit helps. So I don't mind, if you want to give feedback or just take a look, I don't mind getting comments from different people.
As pathetic as it sounds, some constructive feedback gets me writing more, even at several stories at the same. Just talking about the characters and their possible reactions usually helps.
My grammar is not good enough to beta myself, but I can do the same for you - give plot, character and flow feedback, tell you if some sentences do not make sense. I don't care about ratings, I can deal with most kinks and I don't care about pairings.
2a. Fandom: Star Trek Into darkness
3a. Rating of the story: PG-13 (like the movie)
4a. Spoilers/Time Line: Set five years after STID
5a. Pairing: Khan/OFC
More Info: Written 14 chapters (my beta dropped out), Chapter 15 is roughly 2.8k and the last one might get a tiny bit longer. I'd really like to finish this one.
2b. Fandom: Teen Wolf
3b. Rating of the story: M ...
4b. Spoilers/Time Line: Set after season 3 episode 12 with a month
5b. Pairing: Stiles/Peter (first story), then later in sequels in addition Lydia/Peter, Stiles/Isaac, Lydia/Stiles, Isaac/Peter
More Info: wrote the first story for SS with no time to have it beta-read so I would love to find someone willing to look at the 33k story and then maybe as I keep writing the sequels to help me out with that as well.
2c. Fandom: Matrix Trilogy
3c. Rating of the story: R (zombie related violence, little sex and talk about it)
4c. Spoilers/Time Line: set a few decades after the trilogy
5c. Pairing: OFC/Agent Johnson (established relationship, more a backdropping after the first chatpers)
More Info: used to have a beta, posted two chapters. Focuses mainly on the Agents, Smith is ressurected from a back up copy and has a hard time dealing with how the Matrix is run these days, then a virus mimics a Zombie apocoalypse and things get from bad to worse. Brown and Jones will also have larger role, Johnson, Jackson and Thompson are not that present but Johnson has larger role than the other two.
6. Beta Type: Plot, characterization, flow ...
7. Harshness: Be as nitpicky as you want, if you feel something is not okay, don't beat around the bush.
More Info
Right now looking more for alpha readers for my stories: someone to discuss problems with the plots, characterization issues and other stuff. I worry too much about getting stuff right, so having some feedback and thus sense that I am not heading into the wrong direction is very helpful.
The exception is the Star Trek and Teen Wolf story.
The ideas are plopping in my head like crazy, that is not the problem, more like making sure that what I want to say comes across and that I don't overlook plot holes or that I might get a character wrong.
Once, the story stands, then I'll worry about SpaG. After all, there is no use to polish a paragraph you have to re-write due to plot problems. Not that I mind feedback on grammar, if it is a need for you to make correct it. I just think it's something that can wait once the chapter is really done and flows.
We can use google docs and you can bombard the chapters with as much comments as you like. Even if you just think, you don't have much time, every bit helps. So I don't mind, if you want to give feedback or just take a look, I don't mind getting comments from different people.
As pathetic as it sounds, some constructive feedback gets me writing more, even at several stories at the same. Just talking about the characters and their possible reactions usually helps.
My grammar is not good enough to beta myself, but I can do the same for you - give plot, character and flow feedback, tell you if some sentences do not make sense. I don't care about ratings, I can deal with most kinks and I don't care about pairings.