Impatient and new

[Karenas]

I asked two different people if they would edit for me--on the 6th. I haven't heard back from either one yet.
I'm wondering if I asked wrong. I know my correct email is in my profile.
Any suggestions?
TIA

 

[PennLady]

I asked two different people if they would edit for me--on the 6th. I haven't heard back from either one yet.
I'm wondering if I asked wrong. I know my correct email is in my profile.
Any suggestions?
TIA

If you went through the Volunteer Editor list, you may have selected people who are no longer active on the site.

A better idea is to either check monthly sticky for available authors (at the top of this forum) or to post on this forum that you need an editor. If you do the latter, it would help if you specified the category, length, and when you need/want it returned.

 

[Karenas]

The first one was from the volunteer editor list. Then I read that that list might include inactives, so I asked from this month's list in this forum.

This is what I wrote in my request:
Hi, I'm interested in having you help me with a story I am working on, if you have the time and inclination.

The story is for the Summer Lovin' contest, so I would need your feedback pretty quickly. The story has elements of exhibitionism, loving wives or group sex, and dominance.

I am not so much looking for an editor for my spelling and grammar. I am looking for help with maintaining a consistent voice and also with which way I'm going to go with the ending: loving wives or group sex.

Thank you in advance for your consideration.
Karenas

 

[PennLady]

Could be that the second (or even the first) just hasn't seen your email yet. Not everyone checks multiple times a day, or even once a day. I'd give it another day or two, then either try again or try someone else.

 

[Karenas]

Thanks, PennLady.
Can I say that if anyone is reading this and might be willing to help to please PM me?
TIA

 

[Beth87]

It might also be because being a glorified spell checker (yes, the life is glamorous!) takes a lot less time than what you're requesting. It involves knowing the character well enough to know whether you, as a writer, are being truthful to that voice.

And to be blunt... if you don't know the voice of your character or the ending yet, it's really not ready for an outside party editor. YOU should be editing your own work too. It is your story, not the editor's. A publisher will expect a near perfect copy to come to them - by that i mean what you believe is a near perfect copy.

You could use the existing lit forums to gauge how you wish to end your story and as for voice; maybe you need to ask why you're worried about that.

 

[Karenas]

Beth, thanks for your input.
The more I hang around the forum, the more I learn. I know I need to edit my own stuff and I do that. But I also know it's much harder to see flaws in your own work.

The reason I was asking about the ending is my concern about categories--whether to let the story cross categories or not, and then which category it would go in. I have since decided to try to stop worrying about that and to just write the story the way it wants to be told.

The reason I was asking about voice was that in this particular story I wanted a hint of dialect. It is so easy to go overboard with dialect!

I have had one person to volunteer to edit my story and another to act as beta reader and I appreciate them very much!

 

[rot_teufel]

Hey I am also new to lit, I used sun_sea_sky to edit my stories, I was very pleased. My stories posted today Don't Fear the Vampyr and Sex Slave. He helped with content as well as grammar and punctuation. You could shoot him note see if he has time. (I'm using he in the biblical sense as you never really know)

 

[Beth87]

Beth, thanks for your input.
The reason I was asking about the ending is my concern about categories--whether to let the story cross categories or not, and then which category it would go in. I have since decided to try to stop worrying about that and to just write the story the way it wants to be told.

The reason I was asking about voice was that in this particular story I wanted a hint of dialect. It is so easy to go overboard with dialect!

^^this should have been your description of what you wanted. It explains it much more efficiently and if I were looking for a project to take on, I would know that it wasn't such a huge task. Dialect is different to "voice"

 

[andrea4328]

PM me and I'll give you my email address. I'm up for some editing!