||Fan Fiction Beta Readers - Guidelines for Authors||

• Please only send in one passage at a time. This means, you are to only send inONE passage in ONE week. You may not include two or more passages for an edit. If you write more than one fan fiction, attempt to leave an adequate amount of time between your updates of both fan fictions (if you would like an edit for both). Several beta readers cannot dedicate their time to one author who happened to have sent in more than one passage for an edit. It is unfair to the remaining authors whose passages will have to be put on hold until a beta reader is available.

• All fictions need to be written in English. A few words/phrases in Hindi, or even a sentence or two is allowed, but if your entire entry is in Hindi/any other language, we won't be editing it.

• Passages that are extremely poorly written (example provided below in the post underneath this) will NOT be entertained. We expect the writer to have a certain understanding of basic grammar/plot and literary devices/spellings, and we will not be tolerating abysmally written pieces. If we come to a common consensus that an entry is too poorly written to be edited, we shall inform the writer in question that we won't be able to beta the passage as it is too time consuming. We make that a requirement because the beta readers are provided to you for editing and general feedback (second opinion of sorts), not to re-write your chapter and/or one shot for you.

• You may NOT request for a specific beta-reader. Whoever is available at the moment will take on your entry for beta-ing.

• You are allowed to make specific requests regarding your entry. For instance, if you want the beta-reader to focus on your plot/flow/style and provide specific feedback, you may leave a note at the beginning of the passage and specify your request.

• Beta readers, like you and me, have a life. Expect a lead time of between 3 to 6 days for your passage to be betaed. No urgent requests will be entertained. If you wish to upload a passage by the 13th, and you only send in your work on the 10th, requesting for the beta-ing to be done ASAP, you may have to postpone the uploading date. The beta reader will edit your piece whenever it is convenient for them. Rest assured, it WILL be edited and done as soon as it is possible.

• The beta reader will credit themselves at the end of the edit, and we understand that you will incorporate the changes. That is why we request you to give credit to the beta-reader who beta-ed your entry. This can be at the start of the passage, or right at the end, but it needs to be given. If you fail to credit the beta, you can expect strict action against you from the Fan Fictions Development Team (or the DT of the forum the story is posted in) in regards to plagiarism. Example/s of how you can credit the beta reader:

1. Editing of this chapter/one shot has been done by username.

2. Credits/Shoutouts to *insert username* for beta-ing this chapter/one shot.

• If you are dissatisfied with the beta-ed version for some reason, address your concerns via PM to .Farzi., who will help sort out your issues.

Jessica walked onto her room and flipped on the bed. She sighed to herself and said, "Oh...what a tiring day today is!". All day.. she lied in bed and kept staring up at the really really white ceiling, dotted with sparkly glow in the dark stars which were invisible because the ceiling was really really white. The invisible sparkly glow in the dark stars reminded her greatly therefore, of Alan, her best friend and now maybe her lover... becus she really has a HUUUGE crush on him. Alan had invite her family over for a big dinner earlier but she couldn't go as her grumpy boss didnt give her leave to attend family dinner with Alan's family and she was very very angry about it but she needed money because she was saving up to buy a gift for Alan as it was Alan's 22nd birthday next month. She was going to buy him 10 box of rose petals and cover his room in it and tell him howww much she loved him. She was so upset about not seeing Alan's hot face.. she nearly cried fifty billion times already. Her maskara was all over her face smuging her pink rosy cheeks but she didnt care because if there was no alan to see her there was no need to look good because she only looked good for Alan. She turned over and buried herself in her blanket and cried so much that the water finished in her body and she finally fell to sleep.

What's Wrong?

*Unacceptable vocabulary ["howww", becus", "HUUUGE", really really white ceiling"]

*One large paragraph [Different ideas are not separated]

*Unnecessary dots placed. Wrong use of punctuation marks.

*Wrongly spelled words [including basic words that can be dealt with using Word or any other document processing software).