It has been over a year since my last submission. Life got in the way. I rescued a six month old Great Dane puppy---canine number three---after getting involved in the shelter and rescue world. Between my shelter and rescue work and spending a couple of hours every day at dog parks (a new 60 pound puppy with boundless energy, a Weimaraner with a weight problem and the “old girl” rehabilitating from bilateral knee repair), writing fell by the wayside. I had also come to realize that I was spending entirely two much time sitting in a chair with a laptop which has the potential of negatively impacting my physical health.
When the first editor I had ever worked with who I trusted completely---Ed “Techsan” Rainey---died suddenly a few months back, the arduous task of finding another editor who could hold a candle to a man who had become a dear friend was daunting. It had taken months of trial and error to find Ed. Bluntly, I feared that he was irreplaceable.
My previous submissions are available for review under the name Dinsmore. My stories tend toward romance with stroke. I am putting the finishing touches on a 10,000 piece heavy on the stroke but with my familiar romantic closure and am back in editor search mode.
The challenge: grammar, syntax, spelling missed by spell check, tense shifts and voice anomalies, references inadequately clear to the average reader, character inconsistencies, homonyms---but not plot and character changes or any attempt at rewriting what I’ve written.
I don’t forward sloppy work to an editor. I review the final draft for days, over and over before letting it out of my hands but miss minor mistakes since it is always difficult for a writer to separate from the story line and character development. I can work in Word or Pages.
If there is interest, we need to exchange enough personal information to ensure that we have reasonably compatible world views. I occasionally use two editors for the same story, one for the mechanical and sometimes a second one, usually female, to review my female characters for authenticity.
While I will certainly peruse the massive data base of potential volunteer editors, I’ve not found that resource particularly helpful in the past.
Please examine what I’ve done in the past and contact me if there is interest.
Thanks,
dinsmorefeedback@mac.com
When the first editor I had ever worked with who I trusted completely---Ed “Techsan” Rainey---died suddenly a few months back, the arduous task of finding another editor who could hold a candle to a man who had become a dear friend was daunting. It had taken months of trial and error to find Ed. Bluntly, I feared that he was irreplaceable.
My previous submissions are available for review under the name Dinsmore. My stories tend toward romance with stroke. I am putting the finishing touches on a 10,000 piece heavy on the stroke but with my familiar romantic closure and am back in editor search mode.
The challenge: grammar, syntax, spelling missed by spell check, tense shifts and voice anomalies, references inadequately clear to the average reader, character inconsistencies, homonyms---but not plot and character changes or any attempt at rewriting what I’ve written.
I don’t forward sloppy work to an editor. I review the final draft for days, over and over before letting it out of my hands but miss minor mistakes since it is always difficult for a writer to separate from the story line and character development. I can work in Word or Pages.
If there is interest, we need to exchange enough personal information to ensure that we have reasonably compatible world views. I occasionally use two editors for the same story, one for the mechanical and sometimes a second one, usually female, to review my female characters for authenticity.
While I will certainly peruse the massive data base of potential volunteer editors, I’ve not found that resource particularly helpful in the past.
Please examine what I’ve done in the past and contact me if there is interest.
Thanks,
dinsmorefeedback@mac.com
