Seductive writer looking for an editor

[sweetnessuk]

Seductive writer looking for a editor/proofreader

**********Looking for an editor/proofreader volunteer***********************

I've written very seductive short stories and dying to get more criticism and opinions. I have been told I need to work on my grammar and sentence structure which has never been my strong point despite how much I enjoy writing.

I'm quite a horny girl and have to try and separate that from my writing sometimes, but sometimes, it does help.

I'd appreciate someone to take a peek at my steamy stories and make them look a bit more professional in regards to it's grammar/sentence structure/spelling/story structure/general mistakes.

The genre I write is: Erotica (Voyeurism/Orgy/Swinging/Mind Control/Group Sex/FFM/MMF/MF/FF)
The word count is generally between 750 words and 1500.

Big No Nos!!!! (incest/rape/torture/pedophilia/drugged/slavery/Cannibalism/Necrophilia/Lolita/Zoophilia/snuff/sadistic/Bestiality/Scatology)


Thanks

Links to my profiles showing my stories: http://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=1334754&page=submissions

(Pen Name registered on storiesonline.net - Angel Delight) http://storiesonline.net/auth/Angel_Delight

 

[snoopercharmbrights]

You might get a better response if you switch on your Private Messages. Go to User CP (top left of this page) then click on Edit Options (in the left hand column) and then tick Enable Private Messaging in the second box down. Make sure that the next box down (Receive Private Messages only from Buddies and Moderators) is NOT ticked. Finally click Save Changes at the bottom of that page.

You might also get a better response if you specify the genre of your story (eg romance, non-consent, incest, gay male, lesbian, etc), and its length (in words) as these factors play a large part in a volunteer editor's decision whether to offer help.

 

[sweetnessuk]

thanks

Thanks for the advice. Where is best to submit the information about the genre and length of words?

 

[Hotcappucino]

It's also helpful to provide a link to your stories so others will have an easier time finding them: sweetnessuk's stories

And one other detail you may not be aware of: forum rules state that no personal information, like e-mail addresses, are supposed to be posted on the forums, so you may be asked to change your signature. What you can do is have people private message you, and then, if you are interested in exchanging personal information like e-mail addresses, do it through private messaging.

 

[Ldy_Sea]

I've written very seductive short stories and dying to get more criticism and opinions. I have been told I need to work on my grammar and sentence structure which has never been my strong point despite how much I enjoy writing.

I'm quite a horny girl and have to try and separate that from my writing sometimes, but sometimes, it does help.

I'd appreciate someone to take a peek at my steamy stories and make them look a bit more professional.

The genre I write is: Erotica (Voyeurism/Orgy/Swinging/Mind Control/Group Sex/FFM/MMF/MF/FF)
The word count is generally between 750 words and 1500.

Thanks

Sounds like you need a proofreader not an editor.

Proofreaders correct grammer, spelling, syntax, and other technical errors in writing.

Editors usually concern themselves with the plot and character developent to make the story more interesting to the audience.

Unfortunatly computers have made proofreaders almost extinct. I read novels by major publishers with incorrect word useage, spelling and grammer mistakes. These books are by major publishers and well known authors. Not just one or two but several in every chapter. Really sad.

If yu want me to proofread your stories I will. If yu want an editor there are several volunteer editors on here to help you. I have not used them so I can't offer any recomendations.

 

[sweetnessuk]

Hi

Thanks, I have amended as suggested. x

 

[sr71plt]

Proofreaders correct grammer, spelling, syntax, and other technical errors in writing.

That would be a line editor/copyeditor, not a proofreader. Proofreaders aren't supposed to correct anything. They are supposed to point to possible discrepancies--mainly between two versions. Only an editor and the original author are supposed to "correct" anything.

 

[Ldy_Sea]

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/proofreader

proof·read (prfrd)
v. proof·read (-rd), proof·read·ing, proof·reads
v.tr.
To read (copy or proof) in order to find errors and mark corrections.
v.intr.
To read copy or proof for purposes of error detection and correction

SR while you are technically correct, I stand by what I said. A proofreader reads the copy and marks any errors found to be corrected by the author. They are correcting errors not changing anything. Like a teacher would mark misspelled words in an essay.

An editor will edit a story for readability, conciseness, and he expected audience. Before computers an editor never saw any copy until at least 2 proofreaders had read it and the writer made any needed corrections.

A copywriter is someone who works in advertising and writes copy for print ads and the info about items in catalogs.

 

[sr71plt]

A strategic "for" is being left out of that definition.

"Proofreading is the process of reading a text and scrutinizing all of its components to find errors and mark them for correction." (Chicago Manual of Style 2.97).

The decision to actually correct and what to correct it to is an author/editor decision, not a proofreader decision or function. In most publishing houses, there's at least a $10/hour difference in pay scale for those separate functions.

I frequently have an author ask me to proofread when they really want me to edit--they just want me to do it cheaper.

 

[TwoHundredTabs]

A strategic "for" is being left out of that definition.

"Proofreading is the process of reading a text and scrutinizing all of its components to find errors and mark them for correction." (Chicago Manual of Style 2.97).

The decision to actually correct and what to correct it to is an author/editor decision, not a proofreader decision or function. In most publishing houses, there's at least a $10/hour difference in pay scale for those separate functions.

I frequently have an author ask me to proofread when they really want me to edit--they just want me to do it cheaper.

I'm really glad to see someone making distinctions between these terms.

 

[snoopercharmbrights]

A strategic "for" is being left out of that definition.

"Proofreading is the process of reading a text and scrutinizing all of its components to find errors and mark them for correction." (Chicago Manual of Style 2.97).

The decision to actually correct and what to correct it to is an author/editor decision, not a proofreader decision or function. In most publishing houses, there's at least a $10/hour difference in pay scale for those separate functions.

I frequently have an author ask me to proofread when they really want me to edit--they just want me to do it cheaper.

I'm really glad to see someone making distinctions between these terms.

So am I. How can any of us possibly write correct English if thefreedictionary does not agree in the tiniest detail with the ultimate authority on the language (CMS, not SR71plt)?[/sarcasm]

 

[lovecraft68]

So am I. How can any of us possibly write correct English if thefreedictionary does not agree in the tiniest detail with the ultimate authority on the language (CMS, not SR71plt)?[/sarcasm]

And how could any of us figure out that it means the same thing, but just phrased slightly differently. Oh, wait most of us can.

The CMS cannot make money if it said exactly what other dictionary's said. I imagine this tome is not cheap and they have to justify the price.

Its also why they change rules every year, they wouldn't make any money if people didn't have to by updated versions.

This is the same reason that in the comic industry The Overstreet Price guide keeps having the price of comics going up in value. This is BS as the market has been destroyed by the net. But if they didn't lie and skew sales people wouldn't pony up $30 for a new one everywhere.

Doesn't matter the industry business is business.

 

[TwoHundredTabs]

My point was that people seem to care little for what words mean anymore.

That a proofreader's job is just to identify what might be an unintentional error, versus that a copy editor makes changes in order to create a better product, versus that a general editor works on the vision of the whole project, and so on is a set of important distinctions, I think.

 

[sweetnessuk]

Thanks

Well, i sure got lots of opinions and responses, thanks.
Really useful to know x