Looking for Editors

[Remec]

Alrighty, I've decided this is becoming more than merely a hobby or a pasttime. But, when I dropped by the Editor's Forum, there weren't any threads except the two sticky ones.

Is there a particular place to best leave word that you are looking for an editor?

Next question, I looked at the Volunteer Editor thingie and was wondering if there was any keyword or such to denote someone who was open to editting anything? (I'm going to go look again, I may have missed it; but thought I'd ask anyways.)

While I write more and more just to get some of the stories and characters inhabiting my head out where they can relax, gambol, or whatever comes to mind, I am also trying the Survivor Contest and it would be nice to find an editor to work with throughout the various categories.

From what I've already seen and been told, my main faults tend to be run ons...over use of dialectal speech and spelling...fragments when writing in first person...and not sticking with the established conventions when it comes to punctuating dialogue. (Although, after reading Whisper's article, I'm not certain that will be a problem as long as I remember proofread at least once more between finishing and submitting.)

Anyways, thanks for any input, and potential editors lurking about these threads, feel free to PM me...<g>

 

[Black Tulip]

Hey Remec,

You have me confused. I just had a look in the Editor's Forum and there are threads there besides the stickies.



And you can always start your own. That's what I did and some editor adopted me.



Good luck.

 

[dirtylover]

Hi Remec - if you go to the front page of lit, go to login, where your submissions are, and click on 'find editor'. There's a massive list of volunteer editors, you just take your pick...

I think that's what you mean anyway.

Also, I wouldn't mind reading through your stuff, but I doubt I have the time or ability to be an editor, as such.

dl

 

[snooper]

Demarcation dispute.

Okay dirtlyover, I'll let you off just this once. I am the standard answerer to the standard question on the EH, and here it is:

Click here and pick the one, or ones, which best suit your needs. They are supposed to reply in 72 hours.

Please don't pick me unless you have already mastered the use of a spell checker.

 

[Remec]

Hey Remec,

You have me confused. I just had a look in the Editor's Forum and there are threads there besides the stickies.



And you can always start your own. That's what I did and some editor adopted me.



Good luck.

Well, how peculiar...but, y'know, I suspect the tech brownies have it in for me around here sometimes. <g> Much like the way Control Panel marks things as read; but when I go back later to read new things, it shows me all the other stuff that was supposedly already looked at as well...

<sigh>

Anyways, thanks for the help (you too, Dirtylover and Snooper) I read through what the directions said, but was hoping there might be an easier...less trial and error...sort of way to go about it.

 

[Black Tulip]

Ummm,

























no.

Sorry.

 

[snooper]

... but was hoping there might be an easier...less trial and error...sort of way to go about it.

Easier - yes, ask on the EF.
Less trial and error - no.

But as you persist and said thank you, email it to me on charmbrights@hotmail.com if you want.

 

[Black Tulip]

See, I told you, you'd get adopted. LOL

 

[damppanties]

Re: Demarcation dispute.

Okay dirtlyover, I'll let you off just this once. I am the standard answerer to the standard question on the EH, and here it is:

Click here and pick the one, or ones, which best suit your needs. They are supposed to reply in 72 hours.

Please don't pick me unless you have already mastered the use of a spell checker.

Snooper, the standard answer's not that good. I tried to find an editor through the volunteer editor program a few days back. I mailed three, waited 5 days, mailed another three, waited 4 days, mailed a final three and waited 5 days. Nothing. I went back to my old editor, who I think is sick and tired of my writing now and I think I'm too much of a bother to the kind person but... *shrugs*

Any chance anyone will adopt me?

 

[Dirt Man]

Nobody has ever wanted to adopt me, so I end up editing my own stuff. And believe me, when I'm finished editing my own stuff I don't want anything to do with somebody else's problems. LOL In the end the author gets all of the credit anyway, and never acknowledges his editor properly. So maybe that's why you're having a hard time finding an editor.

As Always
I Am the
Dirt Man

 

[damppanties]

Nobody has ever wanted to adopt me, so I end up editing my own stuff. And believe me, when I'm finished editing my own stuff I don't want anything to do with somebody else's problems. LOL In the end the author gets all of the credit anyway, and never acknowledges his editor properly. So maybe that's why you're having a hard time finding an editor.

As Always
I Am the
Dirt Man

Well, I always acknowledge my editors before the story starts, unless they specifically ask me not to. Some people do not like their editing skills to be advertised.

I try to do something between a gushy thank you and a cool thank you... if you know what I mean.

DM, if I acknowledge you properly, will you adopt me?