I've spent the last two hours searching the editor list for someone I think would fit and found a couple of possibles. I had posted here a few days back for a one time editor to no avail. Now I fear I need a new editor full time.
My experience tells me that I would do best with someone over the age of forty. I've worked with men and women and am fine with either when it comes to editing.
This will be a little long; I want to get any potential issues out on the table before we try this. If we have completely alien world views it’s unlikely that we can work well together.
My sixty-seven published submissions are located here:
http://english.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=510155&page=submissions
Almost all have ‘H’ ratings and a couple have been contest winners. I’ve been submitting to Lit for almost three years. I’ve had four editors and am desperately seeking a new one. I have three stories in submission that I edited to the best of my ability because I didn’t get a successful response posting on this forum---I hate doing that without a second pair of eyes! Read my later stuff first; my earliest submissions are really not my best work.
I’m looking for a good proof reader/copy editor. The things I miss in my own editing include:
1. Homonyms – “There, Their, They’re…hear, here.”
2. The misspelling that Spell Check misses because the word is spelled correctly but it is the wrong word!
3. The occasional run on sentence or a brief bout of comma addiction.
4. In a story with multiple named characters, wrong name in the wrong place.
When a story idea hits me I type in a frenzy, often for hours at a time. Often a real life event will give me the nugget of a story and I will start at that point and see where it takes me. At any given time I have at least six stories in process; often I just can’t decide how to end them and they sit there for weeks. If the weather is nice or I get involved in house, yard and garden projects I will be on hiatus for several weeks. Following completion of those things that need doing I’ll often hammer out several stories in a couple of days.
I will go over a completed story half a dozen times; my most recent editor was very diligent but we would always miss a couple of things in a 10,000 to 14,000 word piece. I think we all know it is almost impossible to accurately edit your own work.
So what happened to my other editors?
1. My first one was super but I didn’t make enough mistakes for her and she preferred more deviant themes.
2. My second only liked stories with whips, chains and lesbians so she found my stories too tame.
3. My third one was delightfully OCD; toward the end of our relationship she just never seemed to get around to editing. She ended up being committed for six weeks, lost her Internet connection and…who knows?
4. My most recent one—a fan turned editor---was exceptional and we had a great relationship for some time. I fear that he may have passed away. It’s not like him not to communicate for over a month and he did have some health problems.
I primarily write three kinds of stories: (1) recreation smut or stroke stories; (2) romances or (3) recreational smut stories that evolve into romances. I dabble in humor, non-erotic or whatever strikes my fancy. I don’t write non-human, pure sci-fi, gay or serious BDSM and non-consent. I often include graphic MF anal themes.
I would prefer to submit in Word 2003 but I’m flexible. If you are comfortable using the comment insertion feature in Word that would be fine or you can simply enter the correction/suggestion in an alternate font color. Please add your preferred editor credit to my story so that I don’t forget to give you credit.
I’ve developed a loyal fan base that seems terribly disappointed when I write outside of the “sweet, everyone wins in the end” romance genre. I enjoy those stories but need a break from them every now and again. At the moment I’m in a bit of a rut. It is not unusual for me to write three stories in a row, almost a trilogy which include similar themes, action or characters.
If you choose to reply we need to feel each other as regards our world views, interests, pet peaves and so on. On a previous occasion I did not do that and politics spoiled the fun.
Jim
My experience tells me that I would do best with someone over the age of forty. I've worked with men and women and am fine with either when it comes to editing.
This will be a little long; I want to get any potential issues out on the table before we try this. If we have completely alien world views it’s unlikely that we can work well together.
My sixty-seven published submissions are located here:
http://english.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=510155&page=submissions
Almost all have ‘H’ ratings and a couple have been contest winners. I’ve been submitting to Lit for almost three years. I’ve had four editors and am desperately seeking a new one. I have three stories in submission that I edited to the best of my ability because I didn’t get a successful response posting on this forum---I hate doing that without a second pair of eyes! Read my later stuff first; my earliest submissions are really not my best work.
I’m looking for a good proof reader/copy editor. The things I miss in my own editing include:
1. Homonyms – “There, Their, They’re…hear, here.”
2. The misspelling that Spell Check misses because the word is spelled correctly but it is the wrong word!
3. The occasional run on sentence or a brief bout of comma addiction.
4. In a story with multiple named characters, wrong name in the wrong place.
When a story idea hits me I type in a frenzy, often for hours at a time. Often a real life event will give me the nugget of a story and I will start at that point and see where it takes me. At any given time I have at least six stories in process; often I just can’t decide how to end them and they sit there for weeks. If the weather is nice or I get involved in house, yard and garden projects I will be on hiatus for several weeks. Following completion of those things that need doing I’ll often hammer out several stories in a couple of days.
I will go over a completed story half a dozen times; my most recent editor was very diligent but we would always miss a couple of things in a 10,000 to 14,000 word piece. I think we all know it is almost impossible to accurately edit your own work.
So what happened to my other editors?
1. My first one was super but I didn’t make enough mistakes for her and she preferred more deviant themes.
2. My second only liked stories with whips, chains and lesbians so she found my stories too tame.
3. My third one was delightfully OCD; toward the end of our relationship she just never seemed to get around to editing. She ended up being committed for six weeks, lost her Internet connection and…who knows?
4. My most recent one—a fan turned editor---was exceptional and we had a great relationship for some time. I fear that he may have passed away. It’s not like him not to communicate for over a month and he did have some health problems.
I primarily write three kinds of stories: (1) recreation smut or stroke stories; (2) romances or (3) recreational smut stories that evolve into romances. I dabble in humor, non-erotic or whatever strikes my fancy. I don’t write non-human, pure sci-fi, gay or serious BDSM and non-consent. I often include graphic MF anal themes.
I would prefer to submit in Word 2003 but I’m flexible. If you are comfortable using the comment insertion feature in Word that would be fine or you can simply enter the correction/suggestion in an alternate font color. Please add your preferred editor credit to my story so that I don’t forget to give you credit.
I’ve developed a loyal fan base that seems terribly disappointed when I write outside of the “sweet, everyone wins in the end” romance genre. I enjoy those stories but need a break from them every now and again. At the moment I’m in a bit of a rut. It is not unusual for me to write three stories in a row, almost a trilogy which include similar themes, action or characters.
If you choose to reply we need to feel each other as regards our world views, interests, pet peaves and so on. On a previous occasion I did not do that and politics spoiled the fun.
Jim
