Premature submission?

[oggbashan]

This is all so stressful.

Yes it is. Posting your first story on Literotica is not something to do without thought.

You are exposing your literary talent to potentially hundreds of thousands of people. Once posted, even if you ask for it to be deleted, or do a major edit, the original version will still be available for years to come.

If people like your story it could be copied to hundreds of hard drives, posted on hundreds of websites over which you have no control and even stolen to be resubmitted as someone else's work.

But - if you want to learn and develop as a writer you are going to have to publish your work somewhere and Literotica is one of the better places to start.

 

[jehoram]

When I do a free edit for Lit., I only edit one shot at it. When I do it for pay, the fee keeps mounting every time the work is expanded.

Well, I'm her editor, and also her friend. No money changes hands, she edits my stuff, too. We see it as a kind of learning process for us both. So it's all good.

I admit that she revises her work a lot more than I do. But usually the result is worth it.

 

[sr71plt]

Well, I'm her editor, and also her friend. No money changes hands, she edits my stuff, too. We see it as a kind of learning process for us both. So it's all good.

I admit that she revises her work a lot more than I do. But usually the result is worth it.

Yes, that's a good arrangement for the two of you--and it's what can work well here at Literotica. It's not what's going to happen with 99 percent of trained editors, though, so it should be understood to be an anomaly (and probably not to actually involve a real editor).