20k word new story needing a quick punctuation check please?

[toosalty]

Hello there,

Thanks for being part of the engine room that helps produce the great stories here on Lit.

I have had a 4 story series published here with mid to high 4's ratings, without an editor, so I must be doing something good by banging words together.

My next submission, which could fall into either First Time, Exhibitionist, Group or Non Con catergories, is a very, very soft non-con, more gentle coercing and exhibitionist story, where unconsumated love between our young virgin couple is interrupted by older strangers on a nude beach.

It is in .odf so it should be fine to read and edit in most programs I believe.

If anyone with skills to help get the story past the submission bots would care to cast eyes over my yarn I would be very glad.

I have recieved the dreaded "Please use ending punctuation with sentences. Please use commas and ending punctuation with the dialogue. See the essay "How to Make Characters Talk" or "How to Punctuate Like a Pro" in our Writer's Resources section if you have further questions. " error when I self submitted.

Any other suggestions to improve the writing will be considered with great respect.

Thank you.

 

[toosalty]

Well,

I put my editor pants on, when through the story, it is amazing how many errors you can pick up. Each time I checked, after going through it, I found other errors I had missed.

Finally I think I have it error free and have resubmitted it for approval. Wish me luck!

 

[MetaBob]

Well,

I put my editor pants on, when through the story, it is amazing how many errors you can pick up. Each time I checked, after going through it, I found other errors I had missed.

Finally I think I have it error free and have resubmitted it for approval. Wish me luck!

Good luck!

If it's just misspellings and such, try Grammarly. ~98% of what they give me is crap but ... did I see that misspelling or that doubled word or that word I wrote when I was thinking of that other word? No I did not. Thank you, AI. You are miserably inadequate, but ... for a second pair of eyes you are not the worst.

 

[toosalty]

Good luck!

If it's just misspellings and such, try Grammarly. ~98% of what they give me is crap but ... did I see that misspelling or that doubled word or that word I wrote when I was thinking of that other word? No I did not. Thank you, AI. You are miserably inadequate, but ... for a second pair of eyes you are not the worst.

Thanks MetaBob,



I write the stories in open office, then cut and paste to lit, so the spelling is ok. It's the polishing of the punctuation to adhere to the making characters talk rules that trips me up. In the rush to record the story unfolding I let my guard down on that aspect.