Looking for UK English Editor

[Mikro]

Apologies to any other nationality but i am from UK and write in UK english, including a lot of slang and coloquial english. I need grammer and to some degree spelling edited. I tend to write at the speed of light so get some wors mispelled. ie 'waste' and 'waist'.

I mostly write for the following catagories.
Incest/Taboo
Reluctant
plus the odd story in other catergories.
Check out my page here http://literotica.com/members/main.php
and if you can help a message would be very much appreciated.

Mikro

 

[Great_Brit]

... Check out my page here http://literotica.com/members/main.php ...

Er... no - that gives me my page! Yours is http://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=396740 if I am not much mistaken.

 

[Mikro]

Er... no - that gives me my page! Yours is http://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=396740 if I am not much mistaken.

Yes very true lol

 

[colddiesel]

Apologies to any other nationality but i am from UK and write in UK english, including a lot of slang and coloquial english. I need grammer and to some degree spelling edited. I tend to write at the speed of light so get some wors mispelled. ie 'waste' and 'waist'.

I mostly write for the following catagories.
Incest/Taboo
Reluctant
plus the odd story in other catergories.
Check out my page here http://literotica.com/members/main.php
and if you can help a message would be very much appreciated.

Mikro

If you are so idle you cannot be bothered to correct your own post for obvious spelling, capitalization, grammar and punctuation mistakes, why would any editor want to bother with you?

Just take your spelling as an example, consider grammar(a), categories, (twice wrong) wors(words) colloquial (2 l's)

Based on this post, I would be prepared to argue that you don't write any recognized form of English at all.

 

[sr71plt]

If the mistakes had been obvious to Mikro, Mikro probably wouldn't need to be asking for editorial help. Sort of circular reasoning, isn't it?

 

[colddiesel]

If the mistakes had been obvious to Mikro, Mikro probably wouldn't need to be asking for editorial help. Sort of circular reasoning, isn't it?

I agree with the principle of what you are saying, but two pointers in Mikro's original post indicate that part of his problem is perhaps carelessness.

You may notice that he spells categories wrong twice, and in two different versions . I deduced he had not checked his own work, because if he had, he would have concluded that at least one was wrong.

Secondly, the statement "I write at the speed of light," seems to be an excuse not to check his own work. If he is conscious that his speed is a problem, he needs to read his work through with more care before passing it to an editor. I suspect that some, maybe not all of his errors would have been obvious to Mikro, if he had checked his post. Perhaps he might tell us.

In principle a writer's self respect ought to ensure that the editor gets the best draft possible... but in practice?

 

[Great_Brit]

If you are so idle you cannot be bothered to correct your own post for obvious spelling, capitalization, grammar and punctuation mistakes, why would any editor want to bother with you? ...

I agree with the principle of what you are saying, but two pointers in Mikro's original post indicate that part of his problem is perhaps carelessness. ...

I have noticed that few people run a spell checker on posts here. Some even use txt msg wds in posts.

I would not rush to condemn a writer to editorlessness (damn, the spell checker doesn't like that word) for hasty or careless posting on a bulletin board.

 

[roomfor1more]

I am familiar with both UK & US English due to the fact I have lived in both countries. However I have no interest in incest, limited interest in taboo stories, and limited interest in reluctance stories. My interest tends to be threesome / group sex, loving wives, cuckold, and BDSM stories that deal with domination / submission. Read my profile for in this section under Editors available for June and if you want to talk further please feel free to PM me.

 

[PennLady]

I have to tentatively go with colddiesel on this, and not because of the post's misspellings, which we all do. I've noticed more than a few writers tend to go with "I write quickly" as an excuse for poor spelling, grammar, etc., and I don't buy it. If you want people to read it, you can take the time to make it readable.

Now if there's an editor who doesn't mind taking the time to correct those mistakes, that's fine. I've done it myself, although I won't anymore, not more than once.

 

[sr71plt]

I write quickly too and am also a poor speller (neither of which are show stoppers to being a writer). I do use a dictionary, though, and recheck a lot. Still don't catch them all. And inconsistency isn't much different from making the mistake a first time. Again, none of this is a show stopper to being a writer. It's the reason editors exist. And we all need an editor.

Poor Mikro is just trying to find one.

 

[PennLady]

I write quickly too and am also a poor speller (neither of which are show stoppers to being a writer). I do use a dictionary, though, and recheck a lot. Still don't catch them all. And inconsistency isn't much different from making the mistake a first time. Again, none of this is a show stopper to being a writer. It's the reason editors exist. And we all need an editor.

Poor Mikro is just trying to find one.

And I hope Mikro does find one. I'd offer to do it myself, at least for awhile, but I don't have enough time.

I think there's a difference between, say, being a bad speller who makes use of spell check and dictionaries before handing off to an editor, and being a fast writer who just doesn't bother to go over and look for basic errors.

You're right that spelling, etc., are no barriers, if one has a good editor and if one can learn from previous mistakes. That's my frustration -- I've had to stop editing people because they wouldn't use correct punctuation in dialogue, even after I'd fixed it and explained it. I'm not going to keep correcting that.

But best of luck to Mikro.

 

[sr71plt]

You're right that spelling, etc., are no barriers, if one has a good editor and if one can learn from previous mistakes. That's my frustration -- I've had to stop editing people because they wouldn't use correct punctuation in dialogue, even after I'd fixed it and explained it. I'm not going to keep correcting that.

Yeah, I'd drop them if they didn't bother to learn by previous mistakes--if I had a choice. Unfortunately most of my editing is for publishers who don't seem to mind that their authors won't take responsibility for getting better.

 

[PennLady]

Yeah, I'd drop them if they didn't bother to learn by previous mistakes--if I had a choice. Unfortunately most of my editing is for publishers who don't seem to mind that their authors won't take responsibility for getting better.

LOL I forgot one other qualifier -- if I got paid. That would take some of the tedium out. Still, it must be frustrating.

 

[sr71plt]

LOL I forgot one other qualifier -- if I got paid. That would take some of the tedium out. Still, it must be frustrating.

It IS frustrating--right up to the time I'm calculating the bill--which is higher than it would be if they didn't repeat all those mistakes.

 

[colddiesel]

Yeah, I'd drop them if they didn't bother to learn by previous mistakes--if I had a choice. Unfortunately most of my editing is for publishers who don't seem to mind that their authors won't take responsibility for getting better.

I agree, my paid editing is almost 100% of engineering texts and manuals, frequently of translated material. The worst repeat offenders seem to be certain academics who seem to think it is beneath them to even admit of any error, let alone learn from it.

Many German and Scandinavian engineers and scientists write in English, and frequently make less errors than the English writing in their own language.

 

[Mikro]

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I now have an editor. Thanks to all those who read my thread and gave some helpfull or supportive comments even if it was polite criticism

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