Posted...Now to reverse the process

[christabelll]

I have been posted to Lit. YAY
However, I need someone to edit my work.
I won't hand you a piece thats not practically ready for submission.
I am looking for punctuation, plot strengthening, phraseology.
Basically more advanced editing than simple proofreading.

I am aware that it takes time to do these things, however it shouldn't take two or more weeks (unless you tell me whats up with that!).
I write anything from erotic couplings to erotic horror. I also do non erotic pieces and poetry.

Also anyone interested in having an editorial stab at one of my "books" would have my undying gratitude. (Fiction/Fantasy -timetravel-alternate history-erotic scenes-magic, swords and beasties etc.)

Feel feel to PM me or respond here... THANKS BUNCHES!!!

 

[blaster8]

So, you're looking for an editor, right? Well, I happen to be a moderate level editor, and from what you just described, your "books" seem to be right up my alley. I will gladly edit Fiction/Fanatsy. Look for my user name on the Volunteer Editor list here at Literotica. It should be within the first three pages of the list. Take a look at my editor bio so you know what you'll be getting, and follow the instructions to contact me. My user name is blaster8.

 

[snooper]

... I am aware that it takes time to do these things, however it shouldn't take two or more weeks (unless you tell me whats up with that!). ...

It does depend on the length and complexity of the work being edited. For example, a short story of one or two Lit pages (3,000 to 6,000 words) with only two characters and a simple plot may only take a couple of hours if the spelling and grammar are reasonable when it leaves the author. A longer work, say ten times as long, or "book" length, with ten times the characters will take much more than ten times the time of the short one, because of the repeated continuity checks and feasibility checks. A simple example is a character who appears early in the piece and then disappears for a few chapters, to return later. The editor will wish to check whether that character still has the same colour hair, and other physical characteristics; if not, then the editor may suggest to the author either changing the text or explaining the changed attribute (dyed hair, boob job, etc.)

Even if the longer work can be edited at only half the speed of the shorter ones, there are not many volunteer editors who have forty hours to spare in an elapsed period of even a month. That's a full working week!

Sorry, but you did ask. I looked very briefly at your two posted stories and they don't look too difficult, so I would estimate that you are asking for two hours for "Slippery" and five or six hours for "Transformation". Of course other editors may estimate them differently.

 

[christabelll]

Oh I understand that...
Books take MUCH longer than shorts and vignettes.
ANd I am well aware that my books need serious editorial feedback.

As far as my little stuff goes... again I try very hard not to hand off anything that is seriously fubar in the grammer & punctuation categories. Granted I don't catch everything, cus well you just don't when you are too familiar with your own stuff.

Anyway was that an offer? or just a explanation of time lines?

 

[snooper]

Anyway was that an offer? or just a explanation of time lines?

More of an attempt to get a discussion going, actually.

 

[CopyCarver]

More of an attempt to get a discussion going, actually.

Discussion? Wasn't that what we used to have before everyone on the forum went AWOL, or catatonic, or whatever has been happening of late?

 

[LadyCibelle]

Discussion? Wasn't that what we used to have before everyone on the forum went AWOL, or catatonic, or whatever has been happening of late?

I'm still here...mostly invisible and incapable of doing much more than staring into space...but...I'm here.

 

[CopyCarver]

I'm still here...mostly invisible and incapable of doing much more than staring into space...but...I'm here.

Here is a good thing...
The rest is not.
Get well soon