Editing

[Cruel2BKind]

My limited experience editing here has come in handy.

I'm now proofreading first drafts for my online english class.

They have worse grammar than the people here. -_-'

 

[nicecthulhu]

My limited experience editing here has come in handy.

I'm now proofreading first drafts for my online english class.

They have worse grammar than the people here. -_-'

Hard to believe when I'm one of "the people here."

On the other hand, people at work have started to come to me to proof-read various documents for them. And that's all been in the last few months. Just about the time I got two nice people to start editing my stuff and about the time I actually started listening to their editing advice...

 

[Cruel2BKind]

I'm sorry if that sounded douche-baggy.

I just remember having to edit a piece where the author didn't even capitalize the character's names.

Lot of other errors in that piece as well.

 

[TimothyM]

considering the spelling and grammar mistakes that can be found in published stories here on Lit, I assume that the ones rejected on those grounds must be really bad - or else they were just unlucky to be caught.

so if your online English class is worse, I feel sorry for you. What age are the participants and where do they come from (is English their first language) ? Why don't you set an assignment where they have to edit each other's work ?

Or did I misunderstand who 'They' are?

 

[nicecthulhu]

I'm sorry if that sounded douche-baggy.

I just remember having to edit a piece where the author didn't even capitalize the character's names.

Lot of other errors in that piece as well.

I'm sorry if I came across like I was chiding you, and you didn't sound douche-baggy.
I was joking. You're part of the 6 999 999 999 people on this planet who don't seem to get my jokes. Or maybe I'm just not funny...no, that could never be the case. Everyone else must be wrong.
On the other hand, my grammar and spelling can be pretty terrible. If you want proof, please read one of my stories that either catbrown or searchingforperfection didn't edit.
I've a long way to go before my grammar is even close to what some of the others here can do. I seem to remember reading one of your stories about an elf girl and a monster trapped in some standing stones (if I remember correctly), and if I recollect properly (hah!) your grammar and spelling were superior to mine. It was a nice story, too.
One day I'll learn how to use the damn icons!

 

[sr71plt]

I've found that much of what folks (including folks on Literotica) think are grammar mistakes in the writing of commerical fiction--aren't. They are just folks who don't realize that high school (and even college) English is much more restrictive than commercial fiction styles are.

 

[PayDay]

I've found that much of what folks (including folks on Literotica) think are grammar mistakes in the writing of commerical fiction--aren't. They are just folks who don't realize that high school (and even college) English is much more restrictive than commercial fiction styles are.

This. Academic writing restricts things like one word sentences, indirect objects, sophistry, and verb tense, among others.

 

[MSTarot]

That and the fact that most people write like they talk and we don't all talk in the grammatically perfect English that seemed to be desired.

There are days when I swear I'm so southern it ain't funny. Strange thing is the people down here listen to me talk and tell me "You sure don't talk like youse from around cher."

Bunch of inbreed, backwoods, hillbilly, redneck, cousin fucking, slack-jawed, tobacco chewing,alligator leather boot wearing, wallet on a chain owning, rebel flag tattooed, thought they were going to be a football superstar, dumb as a tree stump bastards... have the nerve to tell me I'm not from the south!

(Breath)




Sorry. It's been a long week.

M.S.Tarot

 

[i_would]

My limited experience editing here has come in handy.

I'm now proofreading first drafts for my online english class.

They have worse grammar than the people here. -_-'

The other day I was proofreading an annual report that was at the typesetter's already. It had been proof-read by a native English speaker (I'm not native), yet when reading it I felt like reading a first draft. Spelling errors (mostly the kind a spell checker won't find), grammar errors (mixing up present/past tense etc), ambiguities in the text, lines like "we will do this in <some date half year ago>", etc.

I've definitely missed some, too. I know I'm by no means perfect.

Authoring is hard; editing is hard, too. Once I ran into a story on Lit that started with "thanks to editing by xxx" - I got maybe two, three paragraphs in before I dropped it for being unreadable. Too many spelling and grammar errors. And that had been checked by an editor? Unbelievable - even considering it's a volunteer editor.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

That and the fact that most people write like they talk and we don't all talk in the grammatically perfect English that seemed to be desired.

There are days when I swear I'm so southern it ain't funny. Strange thing is the people down here listen to me talk and tell me "You sure don't talk like youse from around cher."

Bunch of inbreed, backwoods, hillbilly, redneck, cousin fucking, slack-jawed, tobacco chewing,alligator leather boot wearing, wallet on a chain owning, rebel flag tattooed, thought they were going to be a football superstar, dumb as a tree stump bastards... have the nerve to tell me I'm not from the south!

(Breath)




Sorry. It's been a long week.

M.S.Tarot

Plenty of Southerners cant shake the trailer outta their genes, they make me hobophobic.

 

[_Lynn_]

The other day I was proofreading an annual report that was at the typesetter's already. It had been proof-read by a native English speaker (I'm not native), yet when reading it I felt like reading a first draft. Spelling errors (mostly the kind a spell checker won't find), grammar errors (mixing up present/past tense etc), ambiguities in the text, lines like "we will do this in <some date half year ago>", etc.

I've definitely missed some, too. I know I'm by no means perfect.

Authoring is hard; editing is hard, too. Once I ran into a story on Lit that started with "thanks to editing by xxx" - I got maybe two, three paragraphs in before I dropped it for being unreadable. Too many spelling and grammar errors. And that had been checked by an editor? Unbelievable - even considering it's a volunteer editor.

The final copy of a story belongs to the author. He/she has the authority to accept or refuse any suggestions or corrections the editor makes. So just because someone edits a story, there's no guarantee the author made any changes or that the changes made are what the editor suggested.

 

[sun_sea_sky]

On the other hand, people at work have started to come to me to proof-read various documents for them. And that's all been in the last few months.

I trust you said "wasn't erotic enough"?

... inbreed, backwoods, hillbilly, redneck, cousin fucking, ...

Cousin-fucking? That would explain the inbreeding, or vice-versa.