It is known that it isn’t reliable. anyone can sign up, but it relies on the individuals to keep the details up to date, and remove themselves if no longer available. Most don’t. Another site I am on, asks editors to confirm their status every 3 weeks. You get a prompt when you log in. if you don’t confirm or don’t log in for over 3 weeks you are removed from the list until you do confirm. Having said that, their list is only a couple of hundred, a lot less than here.
Well, I would prefer to find a woman editor. To help with grammar mistakes and to have a woman's perspective for authenticity's sake. I have no interest in cybering. I'm a pretty agreeable guy. I don't have any real ego. And am thankful when a woman is kind enough to help with my stories. But at this rate, I feel lucky to find anyone. Most of my short stories have an exhibitionist theme that turns into sex. One editor said one of my stories was Hot as Hell. And she seemed very proud of her wordplay. I read a woman's editorial bio before I decide if we could work well together. To see if we are willing to work on the same categories. If she sounds like she knows what she is doing, etc. Not to brag, but the editors have said I make believable female characters. The characters are usually playful, funny, sexy, complex, smart, etc. I tell potential editors what categories we have in common. Sometimes I add the story's title and a short story description.
This all seems wrong-headed to me. If you want help with grammar, then all of that's irrelevant. If you want to know whether all your details of what a woman is are correct, then maybe ask for some beta readers who are women.
On point!
But again, I can't ask one person forever, so I'm always searching! It's just the reality
I am open to plot suggestion, I rarely disregard them, usually I discuss it in depth. I like to have comment exchanges with editors, especially working on Google Doc where we can discuss it real time (I don't use Word). I have now story about femboy who is forced to work as an escort due to his life's tragic circumstances but on his first meeting with client he is in for a big surprise. The man is nothing like he would expect... He wants the escort to wear his recently dead wife's clothes (the escort doesn't know it), the sex is very weird, not what you would expect from meeting with escorts. It's more like making love, which surprises the MC and makes him to want to know the man even more... It's a first chapter of romance. If you wanted to help me with that, I would be so happy! The chapter is about 8k for now (it may grow to 9-10k if I decide to add some details)
Years ago, it worked pretty well. I found an excellent editor, who had a literature degree in the UK. Then she found a new beau and eventually got married, and I lost her services. One of the other writers that she edited for, and I swapped editing each other's stories for a bit. I found it to be very tedious work, and only did one or two of his stories. I think the number of writers has expanded exponentially since then, so there's a shortage of folks wanting to invest that amount of time into editing.
