Editorwanted. Incest/tab category

[geronimo_appleby]

Hi. Selena is swamped, so can anyone help with the above? 3400 words.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Hi. Selena is swamped, so can anyone help with the above? 3400 words.

ohhhhhhhh sure make me feel guilty

I have a 45 pager I'm wading through, damnit... the thing is 21K!!!! (not mine)


SOMEONE please help the man out?

 

[Guest]

Hi. Selena is swamped, so can anyone help with the above? 3400 words.

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Hey, geronimo. I've got a mental block on a story I'm trying to submit, so I think a diversion is in order. I can look yours over, if you care to send to me.

Use my yahoo e-mail address and I'll look over. A short review of 3400 words isn't too bad, and may get me out of my doldrums.

Manxy,

 

[S-Des]

ohhhhhhhh sure make me feel guilty

I have a 45 pager I'm wading through, damnit... the thing is 21K!!!! (not mine)


SOMEONE please help the man out?

Long??? You obviously haven't read any of mine I had about 25 editors laugh in my face (well, my monitor) when I asked for their help. I don't mean to write long (3 current submissions are 35 pages, 60 pages, and 80 pages), it just works out that way. If Angel Love hadn't come to my rescue, I don't know what I would have done. We authors who can't stop babbling need love too.

Maybe somebody could come up with a way to quickly find editors who don't mind longer stories some day. I hated having to keep bothering people, then getting shot down (felt like my love life). Perhaps a way to seperate by the number of pages (i.e. 20 pages is short, 20-40 pages is medium, 40 + is long . . . or something like that).

Just a suggestion, I'll also try to learn how to write shorter stories.
....S-Des

 

[geronimo_appleby]

ohhhhhhhh sure make me feel guilty

I have a 45 pager I'm wading through, damnit... the thing is 21K!!!! (not mine)


SOMEONE please help the man out?

guilty? eeeek, sorry. i'll make it up to you... promise.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

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Hey, geronimo. I've got a mental block on a story I'm trying to submit, so I think a diversion is in order. I can look yours over, if you care to send to me.

Use my yahoo e-mail address and I'll look over. A short review of 3400 words isn't too bad, and may get me out of my doldrums.

Manxy,

doing so now.

 

[snooper]

... Perhaps a way to seperate by the number of pages (i.e. 20 pages is short, 20-40 pages is medium, 40 + is long . . . or something like that). ...

Unfortunately pages don't mean much, depending as they do on font, paper size, etc. Words is a better guide. 3000 is short (less than one Lit page when posted), 30,000 is a smallish novel.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

Long??? You obviously haven't read any of mine I had about 25 editors laugh in my face (well, my monitor) when I asked for their help. I don't mean to write long (3 current submissions are 35 pages, 60 pages, and 80 pages), it just works out that way. If Angel Love hadn't come to my rescue, I don't know what I would have done. We authors who can't stop babbling need love too.

Maybe somebody could come up with a way to quickly find editors who don't mind longer stories some day. I hated having to keep bothering people, then getting shot down (felt like my love life). Perhaps a way to seperate by the number of pages (i.e. 20 pages is short, 20-40 pages is medium, 40 + is long . . . or something like that).

Just a suggestion, I'll also try to learn how to write shorter stories.
....S-Des

why not offer out bitesize pieces as chapters? that's what i'm doing.

 

[S-Des]

Better

Unfortunately pages don't mean much, depending as they do on font, paper size, etc. Words is a better guide. 3000 is short (less than one Lit page when posted), 30,000 is a smallish novel.

I should have said it that way (bad habit). When I'm talking to friends, number of pages makes more sense to them. My computers still dead (with my poor stories on it), so I can't check the number of words, but mine range from 20,000 - 60,000.

As for Geronimo's suggestion, I do submit in chapters, trying to keep each as similar in length as possible, but only if the story seems to be too long for one (to me). There's actually a weird sort of debate about how to do this. Longhorn_07 is one of my favortie authors and submits in one giant chapter (one story was 19 pages in Literotica).

I just read a story that was over 10 small chapters (less than two pages each). With over 90,000 stories on the site, I can't figure out why an author would feel the need to post 10-20 chapters of a story, when the entire thing is the length of Longhorn's single chapter submission. It's annoying to have to wade through when you're looking for a new story to read.

Anyway, despite their desire to help us poor slobs out, most editors don't want to get involved in one story that's going to dominate all their time. I don't blame them. They're my stories and half the time I wish I wasn't invovled.

.....S-Des

 

[geronimo_appleby]

I should have said it that way (bad habit). When I'm talking to friends, number of pages makes more sense to them. My computers still dead (with my poor stories on it), so I can't check the number of words, but mine range from 20,000 - 60,000.

As for Geronimo's suggestion, I do submit in chapters, trying to keep each as similar in length as possible, but only if the story seems to be too long for one (to me). There's actually a weird sort of debate about how to do this. Longhorn_07 is one of my favortie authors and submits in one giant chapter (one story was 19 pages in Literotica).

I just read a story that was over 10 small chapters (less than two pages each). With over 90,000 stories on the site, I can't figure out why an author would feel the need to post 10-20 chapters of a story, when the entire thing is the length of Longhorn's single chapter submission. It's annoying to have to wade through when you're looking for a new story to read.

Anyway, despite their desire to help us poor slobs out, most editors don't want to get involved in one story that's going to dominate all their time. I don't blame them. They're my stories and half the time I wish I wasn't invovled.

.....S-Des

different folks, different strokes. sometimes the survivor contest can tempt writers into submitting chapters, just so they can make up the points.

other 's may just feel more comfortable that way, or perhaps they go in search of the 'H'.

who knows? i feel that Lit is a great forum for cutting my teeth doing something i would have no real chance of acheiving in r/l, and that is writing for someones enjoyment. to be published in the printed form is beyond my meagre capabilities, but Lit gives us all the chance to get 'out' there. i don't take it seriously, but then again, i probably do.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

the chapter has been done. thanx many. i appreciate your time and the huge help that your suggestions have been.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

the chapter has been done. thanx many. i appreciate your time and the huge help that your suggestions have been.

Yay!

 

[geronimo_appleby]

Yay!

I'll be pestering you again in the near future.

 

[snooper]

... I had about 25 editors laugh in my face (well, my monitor) when I asked for their help. ...

That's odd. Most of the complaints on here are that very few editors ever reply to requests (a bit like publishers) so either you are very lucky or you sent out thousands of requests.

 

[S-Des]

Just Lucky I guess

That's odd. Most of the complaints on here are that very few editors ever reply to requests (a bit like publishers) so either you are very lucky or you sent out thousands of requests.

I only had one or two not reply. It might have been because I only emailed ones who had updated their profile recently. I assumed that if they hadn't updated their profile in a couple years, they might not be actively editing anymore. Either way, I was a complete rookie asking about help for a 45,000 word story. Now that I understand how this all works a little better, I can understand their reluctance.

 

[kbate]

I was a complete rookie asking about help for a 45,000 word story. Now that I understand how this all works a little better, I can understand their reluctance.

I don't mind taking on a 45000 word story, as long as you don't mind waiting a while to get it back. I did one last year that was 90 pages of raw and 70 pages post-edit, and that was a chore - mostly because the author didn't quite understand proper grammar and spelling. I probably made 2000 to 3000 changes in that one, my computer ran out of red font.

Hence my reluctance to accept lengthy manuscripts - without claiming right of refusal.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

my computer ran out of red font.

ROFL!!!

 

[S-Des]

Just to be clear

I don't mind taking on a 45000 word story, as long as you don't mind waiting a while to get it back. I did one last year that was 90 pages of raw and 70 pages post-edit, and that was a chore - mostly because the author didn't quite understand proper grammar and spelling. I probably made 2000 to 3000 changes in that one, my computer ran out of red font.

Hence my reluctance to accept lengthy manuscripts - without claiming right of refusal.

By the way, I didn't want to give anyone the impression that lengthy also meant sloppy. In my newest story, I just got the edit back from Ch1. It was 12,000 words and there were less than 30 edits. The problem is that some poor editor still has to pour over 12,000 words to find the 30 mistakes. I don't have a problem with any editor saying that's just too much for them. My original point was that I wish there was a way to incorporate that information into the bio when they say what categories they're willing to edit.

Since I do write such long stories, I try my best to find every mistake possible so that it's not a nightmare for my editor. It has been a great way for me to measure my progress as a writer. Trust me, my first editor wasn't nearly as lucky (her red font ran out too).

 

[snooper]

By the way, I didn't want to give anyone the impression that lengthy also meant sloppy. In my newest story, I just got the edit back from Ch1. It was 12,000 words and there were less than 30 edits. The problem is that some poor editor still has to pour should be "pore" over 12,000 words to find the 30 mistakes. I don't have a problem with any editor saying that's just too much for them. My original point was that I wish there was a way to incorporate that information into the bio when they say what categories they're willing to edit.

Since I do write such long stories, I try my best to find every mistake possible so that it's not a nightmare for my editor. It has been a great way for me to measure my progress as a writer. Trust me, my first editor wasn't nearly as lucky (her red font ran out too).

.....

 

[kbate]

Originally Posted by S-Des
By the way, I didn't want to give anyone the impression that lengthy also meant sloppy. In my newest story, I just got the edit back from Ch1. It was 12,000 words and there were less than 30 edits. The problem is that some poor editor still has to pour should be "pore" over 12,000 words to find the 30 mistakes.

I would leave "pour" in the thread context - it works. :emoticon: