Beta Reader Profile for Tol-Himling

Preferred Name: Sam

Beta Strengths: Description/Imagery, Mood/Tone, Pacing, Research, Sensitivity Read, Setting, Spelling, Grammar, and Mechanics, Style

Beta Weaknesses: Conflict, Plot, Point of View

I Prefer to Beta

Time Periods: Years of the Trees, First Age, Second Age, Third Age

Characters: Noldor

Genres: No genres listed.

Ratings: Creator Chooses Not to Rate, General, Teens, Adult

I am willing to work with authors with disabilities that impact writing/language.

I am willing to work with English language learners.

I Prefer Not to Beta

Time Periods: No time periods listed.

Characters: No characters listed.

Genres: No genres listed.

Warnings: No warnings listed.

Additional Information

I can beta for pretty much any story in terms of pacing, grammar and syntax, tone, etc.  I am not familiar with the Fourth Age so plot/characterization beta is not my strong suit there.  I can do research for the main texts but the more obscure letters are something I am not familiar with.  I can do pretty much any type of beta for the silm, the hobbit, and LOTR.  I have no objections to content - I can beta for pretty much any content or rating.  I can do sensitivity reading for queer characters and mental illness (depression, anxiety, ADHD); I am white and atheist (culturally christian) so I cannot specifically beta for race/ethnicity or cultural accuracy outside my lived experience (if I notice something that may need further review, I can let you know and suggest a user that is qualified to beta those aspects).  I listed plot as a weakness because I have a hard time formulating plot sometimes for my own fics, but I do reasonably well when I have a framework in mind of what the author/collaborator would like to see.

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