Awesome editorial errors

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Just one little letter...

 

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"He made some bad investments, and realized we were facing facial ruin.

Soooo, the bad investments were with loan sharks?

 

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He wore a sleepless silvery metal breastplate

I guess armor that's always awake is a good thing?

 

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a skin tight black catsuit, shinny black, but not as shinny as the zippered PVC boots

I'm pretty sure a catsuit is supposed to cover more than just the shins. The boots, on the other hand, sound maybe a little too focused on the tops.

 

[ryan8558]

Quote:
Her father sat at the head of the table looking like the matriarch they all pretended he still was

Presented without comment.

Sounds like a scene from Transparent.

 

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That's our queue to let you rest.

So, there's line forming to let our hero rest? Are there tickets?

 

[AloneTooLong]

he pulled his levies down (Levis - why not just use Wranglers?)
and
her body ached as she trembled in her orgasm (think they meant arched)

both of these found in Lit stories - doesn't anyone use a proof-reader? I read several Kindle books every day, many of them erotica - I would gladly volunteer to proof-read stories.

Are the authors using a speech to text app?

Sadly, auto-correct or spell check didn't find these errors as the words are spelled correctly, just not the correct spelling for what the author (presumably) meant.

 

[KeithD]

Did you find multiple issues in those stories or just one or two? If you were actually a Literotica author, you'd know that there is no such thing as perfect copy no matter how many edits it goes through. If you find just a couple of examples like this in a story and rag on them, you're just being anal retentive. This isn't the New Yorker.

 

[AloneTooLong]

levies seems to be ongoing in the author's stories.

 

[IG_88]

Shitty writers of shitty stories. The Twilight of internet porn. Of course wasn't Twilight originally internet porn based on something else? I could Google but then Twilight would be in my Google history and nobody needs that.

Anyway, funny thread but sorta picking on the Losers Club, too.

 

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I always found myself squirting like a fire hydrate by the end of it.

Can one of our resident chemists tell me if this is a thing?

This thread is for pointing out amusing errors, not to rag on the authors. Quite a few of these come from otherwise amazing stories, which is part of why they stand out so much. Anybody can have a typo, or get confused, or have spellcheck/autocorrect issues. Sometime they're funny, and that's where this thread comes in.

 

[Oblimo]

Shitty writers of shitty stories. The Twilight of internet porn. Of course wasn't Twilight originally internet porn based on something else? I could Google but then Twilight would be in my Google history and nobody needs that.

It was 50 Shades of Vanilla that started off as Twilight fanfic. The site the author was posting to said, “Even though nothing interesting actually happens in your story, it still has too many naughty words for our community.” To which the author replied, “Fuck you, I’m going to get rich by tricking millions of people into thinking contracts as plot devices are sexy even when you never follow up on them.”

Twilight started off as, “I want to rewrite Wuthering Heights, but with a virgin Mormon’s sexual hysteria.”

 

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There was load music coming form the flat opposite

That's a genre I hadn't heard of before now.

 

[phrodeau]

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The lasagna was exceptional, perhaps the best I'd ever had, and the paring with the wine was truly excellent

I've always thought lasagna was more sliced than pared, and lasagna shaving in the wine sounds suspect to me. Or were they attempting to pare the wine?

 

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After a moment he started hissing her back with a voracious intensity that left her breathless.

So, did our male lead just turn out to be a snake-demon?

 

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a brood of viscous, condescending, gossipy women.

Umm, eww?

 

[Jada59]

"The cat has been wondering in our parking lot"

 

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"The cat has been wondering in our parking lot"

"I wonder where Tony is, and what he's doing? Is he thinking of me?"

The outline of my semi-ridged manhood was clearly outlined against the stretchy material

Sooo, did this turn into an alien encounter story when I wasn't looking?

 

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Still knelling on the floor...

I'm not sure about this form of bell-ringing.

 

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She slipped off the seat to knell next to me.

Is this why the Brits call it a Bell-end?

 

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They knew they had a roll in her pain

Masochists? Was this a metaphorical roll, or was it just piling on?

 

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We fed officer Brennan who also took some desert to the cops outside.

Why would the cops outside need warm sand? (This is one of the really common mistakes, and it gets me every time. Twice in this story so far.)

 

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My forty year old body was starting to show signs of ware

Paranoia really does affect you!

 

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It is my achilles heal

Ummmm....

(These last few have been from one of my favorite authors, in really excellent stories. Just goes to show, you're never so good you don't need an editor. )