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Any beta-readers out there?

So I’m currently writing chapter twenty of an original story that features and is inspired by the songs of Ed Sheeran

Does anyone have any advice or tips of how I can find a beta-reader to look over my work and give honest opinions? It isn’t an Ed Sheeran fanfic but he is featured heavily in that each chapter features and are named after his songs and my main character is a self-proclaimed Ed Sheeran fan - with this in mind, if there are any Ed fans out there who would be happy to read through that would be amazing :0) 

Please message me if you can help! Would really appreciate it xx

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The Someone Waiting For Me

Chapter Three: Sing ---

Zoey bounced around her, singing at the top of her lungs. “Take my hand, stop, put Van the Man on the jukebox and then we start to dance and now I’m singing like-”

“Zoey! You’re killing Ed!”

“Oh I, oh I, oh I…”

She may have been murdering one hell of a song but Zoey really was her Ed Sheeran partner in crime - forever bonded in their shared love of his music since his first mainstream album was released back in 2011. 

“Come on, be my baby, come on!” She couldn’t hit the high notes either. “I’m in love with your body!”

The two girls continued the rest of the walk that way; Aislinn playfully pushed and shoved her friend everytime Zoey over-eagerly punched at her arm and sang louder. Times like this and Aislinn could suddenly forget all the shit that was going on in her life. She was one hundred percent sure that friends like Zoey, Megan and Eloise were a rarity. 

They were still laughing loudly when they entered Mia’s house and made their way into the living room.

“Hey, Mia,” Aislinn was still laughing as she spoke. “I’m just getting changed and then Zo and I are- oh my god.” She stopped in her tracks.

“Hey, Sheerio.”

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Excerpt from The Someone Waiting For Me. Chapter Three: Sing

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Now on wattpad -- an original story featuring and inspired by the songs of Ed Sheeran <3 

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Chapter Two

--- The bus was so much better than the passenger seat of Mia’s fancy BMW anyway. 

Sure Mia’s fancy BMW had comfy heated leather seats, but they would have been accompanied by a frosty atmosphere and TalkRadio boringly discussing mundane subjects. Aislinn could never understand why anyone would want to listen to that on their way to work.

Not when Ed Sheeran was in the world.

Headphones in, she tapped her fingers along to the beat on her knee as she looked out the window. She loved the colours of autumn and even more so when the familiar lyrics were playing along with the view. 

“Is it that it’s over or do birds still sing for you? Float down like autumn leaves and hush now…”

Aislinn would never admit out loud to her sister that she was feeling slightly apprehensive about going into work. She knew everyone would already be gossiping about it - not that she could remember much after the unfortunate vomiting incident…

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Excerpt from The Someone Waiting For Me Chapter Two: What Do I Know?

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Now on wattpad - an original story inspired by and featuring songs of Ed Sheeran

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The Someone Waiting For Me

A simple story about falling in love, featuring and inspired by the songs of Ed Sheeran.

Meet Aislinn Owens. She's not your typical heroine but she's actually not all that different from the modern day every day twenty-something girl. In a world where social media dominates and the overthinking mind rules the heart, this story follows Aislinn as she discovers people really do fall in love in mysterious ways.

She just doesn't handle it all that well...

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https://www.wattpad.com/story/236403263-the-someone-waiting-for-me-inspired-by-the-songs

An original story inspired by and featuring the songs of Ed Sheeran. Any feedback is more than welcome as I delve into my first original story after years of writing fan fiction! Sixteen chapters already written, eight published so far on Wattpad

If anyone has any advice or support they can lend a first time original fiction writer, please get in touch! I’d love to hear from you :o)

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“I’m at a party I don’t wanna be at, and I don’t ever wear a suit and tie; I’m wondering if I could sneak out the back…” 

Aislinn Owens couldn’t find a more appropriate song for her life at that exact moment in time. Okay, it wasn’t what was currently being played at the office party - the big bosses had obviously splashed out the big bucks on a classy band to sing those cheesy eighties ballads - but it certainly reflected her current mood and she couldn’t help but sing quietly to herself as she scanned her surroundings.  

Feeling self-conscious in the tight black dress that her sister had somehow squeezed her into, she smoothed her hand down the skirt for the hundredth time that hour, just double checking again that it hadn’t ridden up or accidentally been tucked into her underwear. It wouldn’t have been the first time in Aislinn’s life that such an incident had occurred - it had followed her from her high school prom all the way up to her first part-time job. Disaster and embarrassment had been constant companions in her life, so it made sense for something to go off track during a formal office party. Experience had taught her always to be on the side of caution during such an event.

She caught sight of her sister Mia mingling on the far side of the room, her usual elegant self talking to anybody and everybody who worked for the firm. Everybody loved Mia - Aislinn could see them all hanging off every word that came out of her mouth - and why wouldn’t they? She looked poised to perfection in her strapless dark green dress that clung to her frame like a second skin. Not a crease out of place. She’d worked hard her whole life to get to where she was; a hotshot lawyer working for Bell Edson Baines law firm, all but married to her job and success constantly running through her veins.

But Aislinn? Yeah, not so much. 

She shuffled on her feet awkwardly, knowing full well that her fellow colleagues wouldn’t really notice if she’d walked out or not. Working in the administration department - in a job her wonderful big sister was responsible for her getting, by the way - didn’t make you the popular member of the work gang. After all, it wasn’t as though you needed a degree or any kind of transferable skill to do a bit of filing, pouring coffee and typing up. 

“Don’t think I fit in at this party… Everyone’s got so much to say…” Her foot started tapping on the floor to the familiar beat in her head. “I always feel like I’m nobody; who wants to fit in anyway?”

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Excerpt from The Someone Waiting For Me - Chapter One: Antisocial

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Roundhay Park, Leeds, England. August 17th 2019.

I’m somewhere in this photo - roughly four rows back from the second security guard on the right side of Ed. This was the second time I saw Ed in concert (first time was May 27th 2018 at Etihad Stadium in Manchester, England) and it was just breathtaking from start to finish.

The story I’m writing isn’t necessarily an Ed Sheeran fan fiction in the normal sense of the term. Although I have written fanfiction for various fandoms over the years, this is an original story that has been inspired by Ed’s songs and partly based on real events in my life. As Ed is such an inspiration of mine, he features heavily in the story as my main character is a huge fan of his and every chapter is titled after one of his songs with an accompanying lyric, with other songs of his mentioned along the way. If you love Ed, I’m sure you’ll appreciate this story :o)

https://www.wattpad.com/user/hollybaggins

I’m currently writing chapter sixteen of The Someone Waiting For Me and have eight chapters already published on wattpad. I haven’t had a lot of reads as of yet as I am new to the community and am looking in how to get my work noticed. I appreciate anyone who take the time to have a look and welcome any feedback :o) 

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The Someone Waiting For Me - an original story featuring and inspired by the songs of Ed Sheeran

This blog will feature snippets from chapters and posts to wattpad... My first go at an original fiction after years of writing fanfic "/