Edita Requst Please

Dommoser

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Editor Request Please

I have a story I have written and am looking to post them here on Literotica. Although I think it is good, I am sure everybody feels the same way about their own stories. I am looking for and editor and a critic. I understand that bumps and bruises are required to sharpen the pencil. I will reread my work prior to submission to you and I do use "MSWord" to help in the correction process.

My writing presently consists of erotic coupling, some fantasy and some BDSM. I have included a small example of my writing utilizing a short section from one of my stories with this thread. I have posted this story in another site and have gotten positive responses. My Stories are usually around 4000 to 8000 words +/-.

From "The Extreme Experiance"

“Oh no” she exclaimed, “I did not agree to this”. She lied to him and said, “I am not submissive to men!” He smiled at her and continued to the house. She followed behind him bantering unheard words of denial and disgust, but somehow deep down she was excited.

This setting was one out of a horror scene with remote location surrounded by dark woods, the glistening lake through the unmanaged trees and a delapitated house with overground foliage overtaking the porches and lapping onto the house. This was something extreme enough to arouse her interest. The problem was, there was no trust in him and she hated that. It was against everything she ever believed but this is how it had to be.

He began to climb the entrance stairs and nobody followed from the limo. Who was the driver? And where the hell were we?

Why did she come with him? Again she was lying and to herself this time. She knew down deep why she was here. She had never been made to wait before and she waited for him. She had never looked for a man’s response, and she awaited for his. She had never been disappointed from the absence of a man and she was to his. Somehow he had a grasp on her soul and somehow she knew she would submit.

As she arrived at the top of the stairs and proceeded toward the door he stopped her with his hand. She looked into his eyes for the first time and they were hard. He said, “Remove your clothes or you do not enter my lair". She looked at him with disgust. “Who the fuck do you think you are”, she said? “Do you know who I am?” He backhanded her across her face and told her “I know exactly who you are, you are my Pixie and you will remove your clothes”. He reached over and tore her shirt open and handed her a rag to wipe the blood from her lip.
She stood in shock, bleeding from the lip and her right breast hanging out. She had met her match alright; she was scared to leave and scared not to listen. “Now remove your clothes” he said and walked inside.
 
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Begin by breaking it into proper paragraphs.

"This setting was out . . ."

Show me the setting, don't tell me the setting is something. .


"as she got" -- blech...

you reach the top of staircases, you do not got to . . .

Just some things to consider. It reads like a cliche fest.

Have you done a rewrite and chop down yet?
 
... "as she got" -- blech...

you reach the top of staircases, you do not got to . . . ...
Oddly in UK English you do use the phrase "as she got to ..." to indicate physical arrival at a point when moving.

For example: She left the train when it got to Oxford is correct UK English and a US English translation would, I suppose, be She exited the train when it reached Oxford.
 
Oddly in UK English you do use the phrase "as she got to ..." to indicate physical arrival at a point when moving.

For example: She left the train when it got to Oxford is correct UK English and a US English translation would, I suppose, be She exited the train when it reached Oxford.

She disembarked when.
The train arrived in Oxford.

Got - is a vulgarity in both US and UK English.
 
She disembarked when.
The train arrived in Oxford.

Got - is a vulgarity in both US and UK English.

I'll argue that point. I don't think "got" is vulgar, it has a purpose. Just like "said", which I avoid but it also has a purpose.

Just my opinion. Like it, hate it, whatever.
 
Just a point on the way the english language has changed over the years. When I attended school Got and gotten were not even in Websters or the equivalent dictionary. They could only be found in the slang dictionary.

That was about 12 years ago if I recall correctly, now both words are becoming more socially accepted in literature though I personally squick when I see them.
 
... Got - is a vulgarity in both US and UK English.

Just a point on the way the english language has changed over the years. When I attended school Got and gotten were not even in Websters or the equivalent dictionary. They could only be found in the slang dictionary.

That was about 12 years ago if I recall correctly, now both words are becoming more socially accepted in literature though I personally squick when I see them.
These two comments strike me as distinctly odd. I have used the verb "to get" for the last sixty plus years and nobody has ever told me it was vulgar. Certainly in UK English "gotten" has almost totally fallen into disuse for the last two hundred years or so, except in the phrase "ill-gotten" and a few compound words like "begotten" and "forgotten".
 
These two comments strike me as distinctly odd. I have used the verb "to get" for the last sixty plus years and nobody has ever told me it was vulgar. Certainly in UK English "gotten" has almost totally fallen into disuse for the last two hundred years or so, except in the phrase "ill-gotten" and a few compound words like "begotten" and "forgotten".

In contrast, I can't actually recall the number of times I have seen rather prolific authors authors write a sentence something along the lines of 'Realizing she had gotten lost, she turned around to try again.'

I don't know. I realize the way people use words has changed over the course of time but some things still have the power to amaze me. I realize also that UK English vs. US English are very different (cookie and biscuit being classic examples) I just hadn't quite realized the differences went so deep.
 
The verb "to get" is not vulgar.

Had Gotten, had got, and such, are never the most correct verbs to use. Had Gotten - is usually replacing the word "became" or when used even more improperly replaces, "arrived" --- either of which is a better and more descriptive verb for the action.

That they are not the best phrases to use, does not mean that they cannot be used. I attempt to reserve such for dialogue rather than for narrative, as often they are the phrases the story's characters would choose.
 
Hey! Hey!

I do believe that I was supposed to bring up for international debate the 'got'/'gotten' conflict. Sorry, I fell down on my duty.

Did this thread get shanghai'd???

As an American, I have wished since childhood that they would change the spelling of 'have' and 'been' even though the rest of the English world does still properly pronounce 'been' as 'beeeeeen'. I mean, if we have to throw out 'forgotten' as archaic, why not that painful to pronounce (for an American) 'been'?

Come to think about it, just why do we mispronounce it? We say 'seen' properly.:eek:

Perhaps I should start an English linquistics argument thread. We could have it out over all sorts of little nuisances.

dh:kiss:

P.S. It must be hormones kicking in, I've been spouting off all over Lit today. If I don't watch it, pretty soon I'll be hip deep in political debate over on AH. AACK! JUST SHOOT ME NOW!!
 
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OK, OK but we're...

forgetting the point! Nobody will look at my wrtiting? Cummon dare editas. I need some help here!

With love yes, but help badly.
 
You were definitely ...

Shanghai'd!! lol

Nobody contacted you? Well, keep begging.

I'm not an editor, but were you asking that the below copy be looked at, or was that just a sample to attract an editor? Maybe clarifying that would help. (or not!:D)

Sorry you got mobbed over got and gotten!

[whispering very softly] Come closer, quiet now, shhh, just between you and me, the phrase 'numerous stories' might be off-putting, too, try begging for a look at one story, then when that's complete, come looking for help with the second. Many an editor fainted and/or got vapors when they saw my story had 12 chapters.:rose:
 
forgetting the point! Nobody will look at my wrtiting? Cummon dare editas. I need some help here!

With love yes, but help badly.



You would have a better chance, if you followed the advice I posted in Post #2 about breaking it into paragraphs, and perhaps if you spelled the title correctly.

No editor wishes to accept something that appears a mess from the beginning.
 
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Im already falling in love. Thanks What was your story about?

Like any needy girl, I love to be loved!:kiss:

My story? You probably won't believe this, but it's about a guy with a great dick, he finds a girl with the best tits. Yeah, you guessed it. He then proceeds to put tab A into slot B. Over and over again. It's incredible! :D

Sorry, it's way past my bedtime. I hate to describe my simple little tale because it sounds so cornball. I was tired of reading (oops, hope I don't offend anyone here, sorry in advance) about black males who seem to only have sex with white women two ways: by being paid/coerced to have sex with a hot, blond newlywed while her hubby gets his kicks watching (???), or by method of gangbang, like animals. I mean, can't a black guy be nice, decent, normal and have sex here on Lit? Why doesn't anyone write stories like that? It sort of became a game of Put Up or Shut Up, you know? If you want something done, do it yourself, so I've made an attempt. Don't know how it came off. My mom likes the rated PG version -- does that count?? :rolleyes:

A black guy meets up with a girl he knew in the past, sparks fly, but can it become more? We shall see. I finally submitted the first chapter tonight.(er, morning)

dh
 
I hear you. I see problems exist on all sides of the coin. Good way to vent with your own story. Sounds to me that turning to white guys may be your solution if you are not blond, married and an understanding openi minded husband. :)
 
Sorry but in my opinion your work needs a ghost writer not an editor.

does that give you a clue?

to analyse all that is not right with this script and to create the piece from your somewhat unoriginal plot would take hours.

take your enthusiasm and go learn!

read, read , read!

study what makes a good story.

avoid cheezy cliche lines ....who says take your clothes off or you are not entering my lair? unless we are talking a spoof.

your use of the word bantering is very odd too.
 
Dom, your punctuation issues are distracting from the story. Here's a pretty good resource and, as advertised, it's "A relatively painless look at punctuation."

If you read it and follow the rules as you revise one story, proper punctuation should pretty much be second nature as you write.
 
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