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pinkcat

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I just had my first story posted! Yea!!! Before I posted it I had asked online editors to look at it and never heard back from any of them. Can anybody tell me which ones will really edit your work? I would like to see what others have to say before I make a post. Pinkcat :kiss:

P.S. How do I get rid of the virgin name under my name?
 
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I just had my first story posted! Yea!!! Before I posted it I had asked online editors to look at it and never heard back from any of them. Can anybody tell me which ones will really edit your work? I would like to see what others have to say before I make a post. Pinkcat :kiss:

P.S. How do I get rid of the virgin name under my name?

E-mail Laurel with the names of those volunteer editors that is not respond to your editing request. They should at least have let you know that they were too busy to take your story.

The virgin tag goes away at 30 posts.
You need 100 posts to use an avatar.
At 1000 posts you can choose your own title.

There are other posting landmarks that affect your title, but they're essentially meaning less as far as added features.
 
Thanks for the info Harold. Do you have any suggestions on which editors are good? Thanks, Pinkcat:kiss:
 
Pinkcat, I have also tried the volunteer editor system and found that it doesn't work. Your best bet would be to read the posts in the forums here and see the Story Feedback forum in particular, then contact anyone who you think is doing a good job of critiquing a story. Ask them if they would like to edit the story and if they're free. You can contact anyone from the boards by clicking on the little button marked email in the left hand corner of a particular post. Good luck!

-DP.
 
pinkcat said:
Thanks for the info Harold. Do you have any suggestions on which editors are good? Thanks, Pinkcat:kiss:

It varies from day to day. Anyy editor that gets a good recommendation here is son overwhelmed with requests. :(

I haven't had a story edited for about two years now, so I'm not familiar with who is on the list. The last time I used the volunteer editors, I e-mailed ten likely candidates and got five replies from people who had time to edit my story. I know that at least three of those editors are not on the list now because of burnout.

From comments here on the BB, I gather that it takes about a dozen enquiries to find an editor that will respond. Perserverance will find you an editor you can work with.

Laurel is working with the programmer who wrote the scripts for the site to automate signing up and dropping out of the program and provide some method of rating the editors. It's apparently a daunting task, because it's been in the works for six months or so. Until the system gets automated, all you can do is e-mail Laurel with the names of editors who don't respond and keep trying until you find a good one.
 
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