Hi,
I have contacted a couple volunteer editors from the directory. However, nobody replied. So, this time, I'd like to find a live one before I finish the next story. Once, I finish a story, I get very antsy to post it. And, waiting for non-responding volunteer editors gets difficult.
WHAT TO EXPECT
My language skills in school were always a weak point. However, I started loving to write with a borderline dangerous passion. To improve my grammar weakness, I have taken a couple writing classes and read grammar books. However, the comments on my stories still suggest a lot of improvement potential: "illiterate tripe", "cockamamie", "I have read bad stories, but this is nuclear"
The strong point of the story is the wild imagination and fantasy. Some readers have gone absolutely summer sault jumping excited over the themes. Other, readers could not handle how unconventional my themes and formulations are. One elder gentleman in a reading circle had his head pop off after he only heard the title of one of my stories.
You can form your own opinion by checking out posted stories under cowboy109.
WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR
- Spelling, grammar, sentence structure review. I have a long way to go there. When you edit, please don't just cross out what you think is wrong. Please, explain which grammar rule was violated, better point me to a resource that explains the rule. I like to learn and make a type of error only once, instead of relying on editors to correct the same mistakes over and over.
- Feedback on your experience of reading the story. I love hearing how somebody reacted to a story: where they got pulled in, confused, excited etc.. Also, hearing their theories and interpretation of the story, characters, and intention is very interesting. It helps me write better stories.
- Be prepared to get asked questions: Why didn't you like the paragraph? What made you the paragraph think off? I found two grammar sources agreeing with your advice and this third one seems to agree with me. Could you take a look? Sorry, it drives some people nuts. I just want to understand things.
UPCOMING STORIES
I am currently working on two stories that I'd like to have reviewed, when ready.
1. One is a BDSM story that plays in an Indian college dormitory, all girls. It's the fourth and final installment in a series. Each story stands alone. The protagonist is an MBA student. Her mentor teaches her management/control of subordinates through power plays, domination, sexual activity, and humiliation hidden as dorm hazing. A lot of it will be psychological exercises to ease freshman student's anxieties or build confidence in a kinky way.
2. The story plays in Kurdistan against the backdrop of a world, where Muslim nations have overrun the world. America is treated as an ancient civilization. Kurdistan/Northern Iraq's different and more permissive society is contrasted with stricter Muslim nations. A group of college students get their hand on old American artifacts and decide to start a super secret sex club at the risk of being stoned to death. Eventually, they are discovered and run away. They try to find refuge in the mountains, where they hope to find the last living Americans or at least more remains of that once glorious civilization.
If that tickled your fancy, send me a message. And, when the stories are completed, I will send them to you for editing.
I really hope to get my writing skill not just the story to the next level with the help of a volunteer editor/s.
I have contacted a couple volunteer editors from the directory. However, nobody replied. So, this time, I'd like to find a live one before I finish the next story. Once, I finish a story, I get very antsy to post it. And, waiting for non-responding volunteer editors gets difficult.
WHAT TO EXPECT
My language skills in school were always a weak point. However, I started loving to write with a borderline dangerous passion. To improve my grammar weakness, I have taken a couple writing classes and read grammar books. However, the comments on my stories still suggest a lot of improvement potential: "illiterate tripe", "cockamamie", "I have read bad stories, but this is nuclear"
The strong point of the story is the wild imagination and fantasy. Some readers have gone absolutely summer sault jumping excited over the themes. Other, readers could not handle how unconventional my themes and formulations are. One elder gentleman in a reading circle had his head pop off after he only heard the title of one of my stories.
You can form your own opinion by checking out posted stories under cowboy109.
WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR
- Spelling, grammar, sentence structure review. I have a long way to go there. When you edit, please don't just cross out what you think is wrong. Please, explain which grammar rule was violated, better point me to a resource that explains the rule. I like to learn and make a type of error only once, instead of relying on editors to correct the same mistakes over and over.
- Feedback on your experience of reading the story. I love hearing how somebody reacted to a story: where they got pulled in, confused, excited etc.. Also, hearing their theories and interpretation of the story, characters, and intention is very interesting. It helps me write better stories.
- Be prepared to get asked questions: Why didn't you like the paragraph? What made you the paragraph think off? I found two grammar sources agreeing with your advice and this third one seems to agree with me. Could you take a look? Sorry, it drives some people nuts. I just want to understand things.
UPCOMING STORIES
I am currently working on two stories that I'd like to have reviewed, when ready.
1. One is a BDSM story that plays in an Indian college dormitory, all girls. It's the fourth and final installment in a series. Each story stands alone. The protagonist is an MBA student. Her mentor teaches her management/control of subordinates through power plays, domination, sexual activity, and humiliation hidden as dorm hazing. A lot of it will be psychological exercises to ease freshman student's anxieties or build confidence in a kinky way.
2. The story plays in Kurdistan against the backdrop of a world, where Muslim nations have overrun the world. America is treated as an ancient civilization. Kurdistan/Northern Iraq's different and more permissive society is contrasted with stricter Muslim nations. A group of college students get their hand on old American artifacts and decide to start a super secret sex club at the risk of being stoned to death. Eventually, they are discovered and run away. They try to find refuge in the mountains, where they hope to find the last living Americans or at least more remains of that once glorious civilization.
If that tickled your fancy, send me a message. And, when the stories are completed, I will send them to you for editing.
I really hope to get my writing skill not just the story to the next level with the help of a volunteer editor/s.
