Subject: Volunteering
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Posted on: 2014-02-22 21:25:00 UTC

It’s rather late where I am living, but if you enable commenting on the Gdoc for me, I may try to do a proper beta reading tomorrow. (My e-Mail is "h (dot) graubart (at) t (minus) online (dot) de".)

What I got so far:

She grabbed a two bottles
Is this some dialect I don’t know? (I’m not a native speaker, by the way, so I will rather ask questions than pretend that I know how to do this right.) Did you intend to write "another two" or should the "a" just be dropped?

Annie pulled grabbed the remote generator,
There is one verb too much, probably "pulled".
As far as I know, it is the "remote activator", which controls the "portal generator".

so they wouldn’t accidentally left behind
There is a verb missing, it should probably read "accidentally be left behind".

As far as I understand the process of beta-reading (I’ve only done it once myself), you are expected to have your stuff beta-read before you make it visible to everybody. The proper way would be to ask for betas, telling what the story is about, but not linking the document. Then you would e-Mail either the document or a link to the Gdoc to your beta-readers, making the Gdoc visible only to persons who access it through this link. Thus the betas can comment privately and you can change what is still not perfect and publish the mission only when it’s really finished.

HG

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