Resubmits and New Stories Help

[wanderwonder]

I'd love for some help on editing my submitted stories, and working with me to improve those that I have not yet finished. Being the absentminded type that I am, I rarely take a second look at my stories once posted, but the other day I checked one out and discovered that I have not caught the mistake of typing "drece" instead of "dress." Plutonic instead of platonic. It bugs the shit out of me. Ergo, this is my plea for an experienced someone to take pity on me and read my nonsense, then help me improve my grammar and punctuation. If you'd like to get a look at the "drece" and its friends firsthand, my stories are here: http://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=808422&page=submissions

Please pm me if you can help copyediting the submitted stories or conceptual and copyedits on new stories (they're mostly sequels, because that's how uncreative I am).

Danke, Merci, Gracias, Arigato, Tak, etc.

—Ww

 

[snoopercharmbrights]

... I checked one out and discovered that I have not caught the mistake of typing "drece" instead of "dress." Plutonic instead of platonic. ...

With the greatest respect, that is not usually the function of a volunteer editor. Mistakes like those should be found by the author using a spell checker before sending the story to the volunteer editor. When I edit for an author I am happy to catch homophone errors ("there" for "their" etc.) but I do expect there to be no errors detectable by the computer. Beyond that I look for continuity errors (one character with to different names, etc) and impossibility errors (one character in two places at once, etc) and style errors (sudden irrational changes of tense, etc.), none of which are detectable by the rudimentary tools available to all users of the internet.

 

[wanderwonder]

You speak the truth, Snooper. For some reason, my spellchecker thought "drece" was a word (I might have had it in French at the time. Like I said, I'm absentminded). Plutonic is indeed a word, but carries a much different connotation than platonic, as in geology versus emotional attachment. I do proofread, but often I read what I intended to say rather than what is actually on the page. Simply put, I could use a second pair of eyes.

 

[wanderwonder]

All done. Thanks for the people who responded; I sincerely appreciate the help.