Hello!

[JADED_ONE1969]

.....

.......

 

[oggbashan]

Your request might be better received in the Editors' Forum.

In the meantime, check out the many 'How-To's in the story area of Literotica. They will meet many of your needs.

And welcome...

Og

 

[Guest]

Anyone out there willing to help a writer(yeah right) in distress? If so must have patience and wiiling to give constructive critique. Oh and teach me how to spell and help me with grammar and sentence structure.

Thanks

GW

Hello matie

I'll give ya a helpful tip, but alas I have no time for actual editing at the mo...

Get some good word-processing software, such as Microsoft Word! You're sorted then on the spelling front, and the "helpful" paper clip will even give you tips on grammar and such (you'll learn to hate him in the end, and just bin the git).

Failing that, read, and read lots. I don't mean that to sound facetious, at all, but the more you read, the more you will get the feel of how other peeps do it.

Lou

 

[Carnevil9]

You can always pick up a "Manual of Style" and study the rules. They really aren't all that hard.......Carney

 

[Guest]

Anyone out there willing to help a writer(yeah right) in distress? If so must have patience and wiiling to give constructive critique. Oh and teach me how to spell and help me with grammar and sentence structure.

Thanks

GW

Wow!

You do realize the enormity of your request, don't you?

Good editors are amazing - I hope you find what you need.

 

[impressive]

Wow!

You do realize the enormity of your request, don't you?

Good editors are amazing - I hope you find what you need.

Careful, now! The etiquette police will be along to chastise you for picking on the newbie.



Welcome to the AH, GW66.

 

[john-the-author]

Careful, now! The etiquette police will be along to chastise you for picking on the newbie.



Welcome to the AH, GW66.

I second all those thoughts, GW66.

I'd recommend to you what I recommend to all of my writing students: read Strunk & White's Elements of Style (every writer should memorize this, honestly), all of Karen Elizabeth Gordon's books, starting with The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed, and all of Bill Zinsser's books on writing. For a general style guide, I am very keen on the Chicago Manual of Style in whatever the latest edition is (currently the 15th).

 

[Guest]

Careful, now! The etiquette police will be along to chastise you for picking on the newbie.



Welcome to the AH, GW66.

It's okay.

I have the etiquette police on ignore.

 

[ms.read]

or you could take a creative writing class?

Please follow this advice:

After you wrote what you think is a good piece, put it away for about a month or so. Then go back and read it OUT LOUD. If it is hard to speak, then it is hard to read.

Note: IF you don't have microsoft word or some such you can use google docs. they have spell check!

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Or you could down load Open Office - it's free at openoffice.org I believe.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Welcome to AH!
Despite all of these people acting standoffish, you'll find a lot of help here. We stick our noses in each other's business all the time.

There are several grammar threads in existence-- take a look at the stickied thread "Authors' Hangout Library" to find them...

 

[glynndah]

I'm pretty good at finding spelling errors, but I'm afraid I"m the queen of the sentence fragments. The Microsoft grammar police keep yelling at me.

 

[ms.read]

You'll be seeing alot of us around here!

 

[Boxlicker101]

Hello matie

I'll give ya a helpful tip, but alas I have no time for actual editing at the mo...

Get some good word-processing software, such as Microsoft Word! You're sorted then on the spelling front, and the "helpful" paper clip will even give you tips on grammar and such (you'll learn to hate him in the end, and just bin the git).

Failing that, read, and read lots. I don't mean that to sound facetious, at all, but the more you read, the more you will get the feel of how other peeps do it.

Lou

Hi, GW, and welcome to the AH. Although Lou is a really nice person, and extremely beautiful, I don't always agree with what she says.

Spellcheck can help, but you still have to personally eyeball what you have written, because the program will only catch errors that are not words. For example, if you mean to say "here" but, due to a typo, you drop the last "e", spellcheck will ignore it, because what you have written is a word. Not the right word, but a word. If you confuse "their" and "there", Spellcheck will be just as confused. Just learn to spell, and have a good dictionary handy when questions arise.

There is also plenty of information available on grammar and structure and everything else, but you have to read it to be able to use it.

 

[Guest]

I'm pretty good at finding spelling errors, but I'm afraid I"m the queen of the sentence fragments. The Microsoft grammar police keep yelling at me.

Hey. I like my sentence fragments!

They're a part of me.

 

[spankableBelle]

I'm pretty good at finding spelling errors, but I'm afraid I"m the queen of the sentence fragments. The Microsoft grammar police keep yelling at me.

I am such a fragment whore!

 

[Boxlicker101]

I'm pretty good at finding spelling errors, but I'm afraid I"m the queen of the sentence fragments. The Microsoft grammar police keep yelling at me.

They yell at me about fragments too and, usually, they are wrong. Or, I have deliberately written a fragment to use in dialogue or some other reason.

 

[glynndah]

Hey. I like my sentence fragments!

They're a part of me.

I am such a fragment whore!

They yell at me about fragments too and, usually, they are wrong. Or, I have deliberately written a fragment to use in dialogue or some other reason.

Oh, I really, really like being the queen and if I can work a few lines of alliteration in there, too, so much the better.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Old Billy boy needs to fix that dam grammar checker so that it doesn't flag sentence fragments that are within quotes...it's fucking dialog...not all characters talk in complete sentences.

Oh, I forgot earlier...welcome to the AH.

 

[JADED_ONE1969]

....

.......

 

[impressive]

thank you for replying to my thread. Do not take this the wrong way but I am at best not a very good writer, so rather than reading through how to write books all I really want is someone to say "No don't do it that way, do it this way" secondly I am a terriable student, all those years ago when I was at college I was useless at studying so it was only when the tutor sat down and explained things to me I got the idea.




So now you see the problem, but thank you for the advice.

GW

It's just a difference in learning style. Rather than "advertise" for an editor, perhaps you should ask for a mentor or a tutor.

Good luck!

 

[glynndah]

thank you for replying to my thread. Do not take this the wrong way but I am at best not a very good writer, so rather than reading through how to write books all I really want is someone to say "No don't do it that way, do it this way" secondly I am a terriable student, all those years ago when I was at college I was useless at studying so it was only when the tutor sat down and explained things to me I got the idea.




So now you see the problem, but thank you for the advice.

GW

If you'll send an excerpt via PM, I'll be happy to look it over and give you my advice and/or honest opinion. Since I don't seem to be in a mood to write at the moment, I might as well keep busy around here. You might want to take a look at a couple of my stories first, though, and see if our styles "mesh".