thewritershelpers:

Before you ask beta readers to look over your stuff, you might want to think of these things.

—Every time you change the tense that you’re conjugating the action of the story in, an author decides not to ship your OTP.

—Commas are nice. It’s not nice to feel like you want to give a speeding ticket to a writer because their sentences just run on and on with the “flow like a jungle river”.

—Giving two characters the same first letter of their names (and especially if their nicknames end with the same sound) actually curses your future children to reading only bad fanfiction when they grow up. Every book they touch will turn into My Immortal.

-Reading over your piece before you ask other people to is kind of just good manners. (If only Stephanie Meyer had thought of that.)

—Put in dashes when you slap two words together, or make an adjective out of them.

—Emdashes are great too!

—Spell out numbers in works of fiction. Science stuff, on the other hand, uses the Arabic numerals.

—YOLO. It’s better to ask someone to beta something you write than to not have the guts to do so.

—If your puns are as bad as mine, I will cry tears of blood and shame.