Hello Good People,
I suppose I have a proposition. While I am looking for an editor of sorts, I’m really looking more for an even exchange—a read for a read, as it were. I’m asking rather a lot, but am willing to offer it in return.
As for me, I’m in need primarily of the big picture stuff: issues of plot plausibility/holes, character development/motivation, pacing, etc. I am less interested in someone’s capability to accurately nitpick my comma placement and word choice and the like—not because it will never need nitpicking but because I’m hoping to bounce work off another set of eyes at an earlier stage in the process, one where I may end up hacking the crap out of big swaths of it anyway (thus rendering concerns about the little stuff pointless . . .)
Right now I’ve been plunking away at this thing that I think is going to be best described as gothic romanceish . . . although it may well be too icky to be romantic and too romantic to make it into erotic horror. No vampires or werewolves—some other supernatural weirdness and maybe a whole bunch of inane crap. I don’t know. It’s a fairly slow build. It may have no place anywhere except on my hard drive. I have lost the ability to even feign objectivity—hence this plea for assistance.
Eventually the piece will probably be a novella suited for a Halloween season posting. Right now about the first 10,000 words could use a read and feedback. I’m willing to send the first chapter alone if 10,000 off-the-bat seems a bit much. That’s a couple thousand words, I believe.
The low-down on me:
I am American and very much an amateur writer, but I’ve been scribbling and studying for a while, so maybe I know a thing or two about fiction. This year I’ll finally finish my English degree. I like dark. I write dark. I prefer to read dark over vanilla, but I can read anything. Don’t expect that I’ll have much insight to offer for categories like BDSM, gay sex, lesbian sex, or loving wives, but I’ll read them if the quality is semi-descent. I would prefer not to read work that's absolutely riddled with spelling and grammar errors just now—if that sounds snooty I apologize but I do quite a bit of that sort of editing elsewhere and I can only do so much. I am not sure that I know how to evaluate to any standard other than what they teach you in college fiction courses, but if that’s the kind of read you are looking for I will do my best
.
Finally—I know I look like a total newbie but I was here a long, long time ago. Came here back in 2001 as Graymouse22 and was around for a few years, if anyone remembers me (not that it matters much, but just to say that I am more familiar with Literotica than it might appear, though I never have posted anything to date . . . )
This is long. I apologize. As you can see, I am in need of an editor.
Thanks.
I suppose I have a proposition. While I am looking for an editor of sorts, I’m really looking more for an even exchange—a read for a read, as it were. I’m asking rather a lot, but am willing to offer it in return.
As for me, I’m in need primarily of the big picture stuff: issues of plot plausibility/holes, character development/motivation, pacing, etc. I am less interested in someone’s capability to accurately nitpick my comma placement and word choice and the like—not because it will never need nitpicking but because I’m hoping to bounce work off another set of eyes at an earlier stage in the process, one where I may end up hacking the crap out of big swaths of it anyway (thus rendering concerns about the little stuff pointless . . .)
Right now I’ve been plunking away at this thing that I think is going to be best described as gothic romanceish . . . although it may well be too icky to be romantic and too romantic to make it into erotic horror. No vampires or werewolves—some other supernatural weirdness and maybe a whole bunch of inane crap. I don’t know. It’s a fairly slow build. It may have no place anywhere except on my hard drive. I have lost the ability to even feign objectivity—hence this plea for assistance.
Eventually the piece will probably be a novella suited for a Halloween season posting. Right now about the first 10,000 words could use a read and feedback. I’m willing to send the first chapter alone if 10,000 off-the-bat seems a bit much. That’s a couple thousand words, I believe.
The low-down on me:
I am American and very much an amateur writer, but I’ve been scribbling and studying for a while, so maybe I know a thing or two about fiction. This year I’ll finally finish my English degree. I like dark. I write dark. I prefer to read dark over vanilla, but I can read anything. Don’t expect that I’ll have much insight to offer for categories like BDSM, gay sex, lesbian sex, or loving wives, but I’ll read them if the quality is semi-descent. I would prefer not to read work that's absolutely riddled with spelling and grammar errors just now—if that sounds snooty I apologize but I do quite a bit of that sort of editing elsewhere and I can only do so much. I am not sure that I know how to evaluate to any standard other than what they teach you in college fiction courses, but if that’s the kind of read you are looking for I will do my best
.Finally—I know I look like a total newbie but I was here a long, long time ago. Came here back in 2001 as Graymouse22 and was around for a few years, if anyone remembers me (not that it matters much, but just to say that I am more familiar with Literotica than it might appear, though I never have posted anything to date . . . )
This is long. I apologize. As you can see, I am in need of an editor.
Thanks
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