I need an editor for a story I am writing. I am not looking for 'just a proofreader' as I can do that myself. I think it's going to need a lot of work; as an editor myself (mostly online fan fiction) I think I can predict where my weak areas are. Also, it's going to have to be someone quite open-minded as it is essentially a gay bdsm story.
The predicted weak areas:
I am something of a classicist. I studied Latin and Classical Greek. I know my future perfect passive subjunctives from my aorist active indicatives. Unfortunately I can get a little too intense, leading to unwieldy and clunky sentence structure. I'm told that out of 'he hoped he would get better' and 'he hoped that he would get better' I should go for the former. My instinct has always been for clear sentence structure - i.e. the latter. An editor should certainly be prepared to take me to task on this.
There are then a bunch of issues specific to this story in particular. This it is because it is a true story. Real life doesn't have a plot, so I think my story is quite weak in that area. Also, most of the characterisation occurs in the first part of the story - which is pretty broing on account of nothing happening. And then there are the POV issues. Because what I'm relating is one of my own experiences, my instinct is to write in the first person; I know, however, that many (including myself) can't get into first person stories and instead appreciate the third person so much more. So I'm writing in a third person 'over the shoulder' perspective, but I think this may lead to problems with the narrative flow.
If there is anyone who thinks they might be up to the mammoth task, I'd very much appreciate it if they would PM me some time.
Thanks
jimhacker
The predicted weak areas:
I am something of a classicist. I studied Latin and Classical Greek. I know my future perfect passive subjunctives from my aorist active indicatives. Unfortunately I can get a little too intense, leading to unwieldy and clunky sentence structure. I'm told that out of 'he hoped he would get better' and 'he hoped that he would get better' I should go for the former. My instinct has always been for clear sentence structure - i.e. the latter. An editor should certainly be prepared to take me to task on this.
There are then a bunch of issues specific to this story in particular. This it is because it is a true story. Real life doesn't have a plot, so I think my story is quite weak in that area. Also, most of the characterisation occurs in the first part of the story - which is pretty broing on account of nothing happening. And then there are the POV issues. Because what I'm relating is one of my own experiences, my instinct is to write in the first person; I know, however, that many (including myself) can't get into first person stories and instead appreciate the third person so much more. So I'm writing in a third person 'over the shoulder' perspective, but I think this may lead to problems with the narrative flow.
If there is anyone who thinks they might be up to the mammoth task, I'd very much appreciate it if they would PM me some time.
Thanks
jimhacker
