Hyperventilation... engage!

[Kathos]

I am so, so sorry.

I write smut. (That's not what I'm sorry about, that's been years.) I started by reading smut, getting annoyed, deciding that I could write better smut, writing it under the cover of night, under my bed, in a locked room, to actually showing it to people, ones that I know and love, to contemplating publishing on my favorite site.

Unfortunately, I'm in here. I'm not mentioned by name in the first Do Not, but I'm sure that LadyCibelle was just being polite. She strikes me as that kind of woman.

So, now I am looking for an editor for rather extreme consensual BDSM stories who can be very, very gentle. I can take direction, I think, and I am well aware that I can't punctuate dialog to save my life, but I need an editor who can understand that I will go cry in a corner about my obvious lack of worth as a person because I can't hold a tense through a paragraph. (I'll recover. Slowly.)

I would like to find someone who can point out my time shifting incidents, misplaced commas, and overly long paragraphs and assure me that its minor and fixable, really.

And maybe slap my palm with a ruler until I actually submit the thing.

Is there such a creature? I'm very good at worshiping at people's feet.

 

[meg1]

That's cute

the active editors' list is here:

http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=599623

you will probably find someone faster if you go there. most of them have links to their editing pages so you can find someone who works with bdsm.

good luck

 

[emap]

Snoopy made the list, and I am pretty sure half of the do nots are in reference to myself.

As for the tense stuff, relax I am just as bad if not worse than you are. I think everytime I send a story to snoopy he goes oh dangit not again, though I am improving I think.

Yes those people exist, I know cause snoopy hasn't begged for me to find another editor yet, though I kinda think he likes editing my stories, he can get a good laugh in before he turns it into a legible sucky story.

 

[desertslave]

PM'd you.

 

[snoopercharmbrights]

Snoopy made the list, and I am pretty sure half of the do nots are in reference to myself. ...

Only half?

... So, now I am looking for an editor ... who can be very, very gentle.

As you will see from the comment above, I tell it like it is, so I am probably too honest for you.

 

[emap]

Yes only half, there were not that many and two sprang out that I don't do. I don't bug you about finishing it, at least I don't remember doing that. And I don't send it back going you were wrong about this and this now fix it or anything like that.

Sorry about the threadjack, he started it.

I think you would like snoopy honestly, he's not offensive or anything he simply says what's wrong and why then gives you an edited version at the very end of how he thinks it should be, only thing I do when I think of it is remove the semi-colons, I think they are stupid. So instead of there being a semi colon breaking up a sentence that he thinks the comma was wrong and needed that instead I remove and leave it a long sentence. I know I am probably wrong doing that but I am allowed a quirk.

 

[Kathos]

Honest is fine. I need honesty or I won't get any better. (I really can't punctuate dialogue. It all looks stupid. Which means I have no intuition for it and need help.)

Gah, the vile semi colon. I fail at that too.

Thank you for your replies, all of you.

 

[LadyCibelle]

I am so, so sorry.

I write smut. (That's not what I'm sorry about, that's been years.) I started by reading smut, getting annoyed, deciding that I could write better smut, writing it under the cover of night, under my bed, in a locked room, to actually showing it to people, ones that I know and love, to contemplating publishing on my favorite site.

Unfortunately, I'm in here. I'm not mentioned by name in the first Do Not, but I'm sure that LadyCibelle was just being polite. She strikes me as that kind of woman.

So, now I am looking for an editor for rather extreme consensual BDSM stories who can be very, very gentle. I can take direction, I think, and I am well aware that I can't punctuate dialog to save my life, but I need an editor who can understand that I will go cry in a corner about my obvious lack of worth as a person because I can't hold a tense through a paragraph. (I'll recover. Slowly.)

I would like to find someone who can point out my time shifting incidents, misplaced commas, and overly long paragraphs and assure me that its minor and fixable, really.

And maybe slap my palm with a ruler until I actually submit the thing.

Is there such a creature? I'm very good at worshiping at people's feet.

You're just too cute, Kath.

Yes only half, there were not that many and two sprang out that I don't do. I don't bug you about finishing it, at least I don't remember doing that. And I don't send it back going you were wrong about this and this now fix it or anything like that.

Sorry about the threadjack, he started it.

I think you would like snoopy honestly, he's not offensive or anything he simply says what's wrong and why then gives you an edited version at the very end of how he thinks it should be, only thing I do when I think of it is remove the semi-colons, I think they are stupid. So instead of there being a semi colon breaking up a sentence that he thinks the comma was wrong and needed that instead I remove and leave it a long sentence. I know I am probably wrong doing that but I am allowed a quirk.

I agree with Emap, Snooper is the best of the best of the best. I've worked with load of editors, had a few working on my stories and nobody does it as thoroughly, clearly and/or simply as Snooper does.

If he does take you under his wing, you'll be quite lucky.

Now beg and grovel at his feet.