Serious editor (with loads of patience) needed

[Molly85]

if interested e mail me please

someone@somwhere.com

Serious editors only please!!!!

(missing everyone!)
-Molly

 

[faq52]

you might want to be a teeny bit more speciific.
a clue about what genre your story is would be a start.
maybe even a hint about how long?
link to previous work even.

 

[faq52]

Serious editor (with loads of patience) needed

Serious editors only please!!!!

(missing everyone!)
-Molly

Hmmm!
A possible translation of this going through a potential editor's mind.

"My work is full of proof reading errors, I have terrible English skills and what I really want is for you to ghost write my story."

 

[Molly85]

Hmmm!
A possible translation of this going through a potential editor's mind.

"My work is full of proof reading errors, I have terrible English skills and what I really want is for you to ghost write my story."

No, that wasn't even close to the intentions I had in mind.

I'll try again....

Anyone who wants to know details about this may e mail me. I get 5 minutes to check this site a day. I don't have the time to respond here or sort through anything here. I'm able to read and respond to emails all day. Hope this helps a little more.

 

[Guest]

Molly, if you look at your first post, you'll see that your e-mail address has been deleted; it's against Lit rules to post e-mail addresses. I think you have private messages enabled on your profile, so that's how people should contact you.

However, faq52's points are well taken. Editors have preferences about the genres of work they edit and the kind of help they're willing or feel competent to provide. Adding some details about what you write, how long it is, and the kind(s) of help you're looking for will go a long way toward getting someone to respond.

Just the facts of life around here, I'm afraid. Good luck.

 

[_Lynn_]

Molly, if you look at your first post, you'll see that your e-mail address has been deleted; it's against Lit rules to post e-mail addresses. I think you have private messages enabled on your profile, so that's how people should contact you.

However, faq52's points are well taken. Editors have preferences about the genres of work they edit and the kind of help they're willing or feel competent to provide. Adding some details about what you write, how long it is, and the kind(s) of help you're looking for will go a long way toward getting someone to respond.

Just the facts of life around here, I'm afraid. Good luck.

All very true. The attitude implied in the posts might make a difference as well.

At least in my opinion it will.

No, that wasn't even close to the intentions I had in mind.

I'll try again....

Anyone who wants to know details about this may e mail me. I get 5 minutes to check this site a day. I don't have the time to respond here or sort through anything here. I'm able to read and respond to emails all day. Hope this helps a little more.

These threads can generate useful information.
I would think if you began one asking for help, you would make the extra effort to check it as well.

 

[driphoney]

I'm not an editor, but I read this completely differently. It sounded to me like she has very little opportunity to come to the Lit web-site, but is able to access her email all the time. Some people primarily work on an employer given computer that is very closely monitored for any illicit activity, porn sites being high on the list. (Know someone personally that this is a major issue.) This could be Molly's primary computer, but she gets to another 'borrowed' computer at some point in the day to check Lit and/or any other place her work would not allow. We don't know her current circumstances. Could be it's her private computer, but she mostly runs through a monitored provider and only gets 'off campus' for a short period each day.

Just a different take.

However, she should know that with the PM enabled, Lit will forward to her specified email any messages that come in. Love that feature!

No, that wasn't even close to the intentions I had in mind.

I'll try again....

Anyone who wants to know details about this may e mail me. I get 5 minutes to check this site a day. I don't have the time to respond here or sort through anything here. I'm able to read and respond to emails all day. Hope this helps a little more.

 

[_Lynn_]

I'm not an editor, but I read this completely differently. It sounded to me like she has very little opportunity to come to the Lit web-site, but is able to access her email all the time. Some people primarily work on an employer given computer that is very closely monitored for any illicit activity, porn sites being high on the list. (Know someone personally that this is a major issue.) This could be Molly's primary computer, but she gets to another 'borrowed' computer at some point in the day to check Lit and/or any other place her work would not allow. We don't know her current circumstances. Could be it's her private computer, but she mostly runs through a monitored provider and only gets 'off campus' for a short period each day.

Just a different take.

However, she should know that with the PM enabled, Lit will forward to her specified email any messages that come in. Love that feature!

I can 'read' that into her post as well and do understand the workings of monitored computers.

 

[driphoney]

I can 'read' that into her post as well and do understand the workings of monitored computers.

I didn't mean to sound picky, but I'm sure I did, and she, hopefully, can explain herself.

Some days I just can't seem to keep my mouth shut. Maybe I need to duct tape my fingers or something. Maybe it's the same hormones that gave me about 3 hours sleep last night. Jeessh!

I'd just rather be here causing trouble and seeing just how badly my latest ratings are doing than studying ancient civilizations, which is what I should be doing!

I'm going to go put some old hippy music on and ponder deep thoughts about love, love, love ... (and the Romans)

 

[Molly85]

You are exactly right about not supposed to be on this site on my computer. I'm sharing one with MIL for now and I really don't want her to come to lit and get intrigued *shuddering*. I apologize for being vague and my posts full of error. I'm watching the door and trying to get ths posted before she comes back. ugh!

I am writing a book, not a story. I don't yet know how long that book will become (that's also up to an editor lol) It's an historical fiction type of deal with romance and fantasy thrown in. I don't weant to tell anymore than that yet and couldn't if I wanted to cause MIL is close!!!

Thanks all.
Molly

 

[faq52]

You are such a meany depriving your MIL of a recommendation to Lit.


A book! well that explains the need for dedication.

if you are talking ordinary 200 page paper back ... that is about 100,000 words.
that is a lot of editing unless you are near perfect going in.

 

[Molly85]

You are such a meany depriving your MIL of a recommendation to Lit.


A book! well that explains the need for dedication.

if you are talking ordinary 200 page paper back ... that is about 100,000 words.
that is a lot of editing unless you are near perfect going in.

Think more like 1000 page too much for such a small book. Definitely needs dedication. I'm no where near close to perfect... but I am not a complete idiot either. No matter what my posts look like on here

 

[driphoney]

Think more like 1000 page too much for such a small book. Definitely needs dedication. I'm no where near close to perfect... but I am not a complete idiot either. No matter what my posts look like on here

You want a volunteer editor for a 1,000 page (I'm assuming MS Word, but a real paperback is slightly smaller) story/book?

Wow. I had trouble getting someone to deal with 90 pages. (But when I did, they were sweeties! )

But then, my thing wasn't the next great Gone with the Wind either, that probably made a difference.

I know someone who had a non-fiction 200 page manuscript he wanted really published, not posted on a free web-site, and he was able to get an editor friend to go over it with real dedication, looking for flow, readabilty and serious chapter-by-chapter feedback, plus the usual GPS ... for only $300. Probably a bargain, they've known each other for years. Now, getting a real publisher to pick it up, that's been the hard part. That came to over a dollar a page. Wonder what fiction editing runs ...

 

[faq52]

I am a really fast reader and with ordinary font size it takes me about three and a half hours to pleasure read a 200 page paper back book. for most people it would be a lot longer. You are someone to read this as a serious editor and actually do stuff it is going to take days.

 

[AsylumSeeker]

Okay

Good luck with that. Hmmm, slave over a huge story for hours for the mere "pleasure"?

 

[snoopercharmbrights]

... Hmmm, slave over a huge story for hours for the mere "pleasure"?

Days, not hours. I manage 5000 words a day, on a good day; "after that I get a pain in the diodes all down my left side". So 100,000 words would be at least 20 days, or about a month's full time work.

A freelance professional editor would charge between two and four cents a word, depending on the level of editing.

Sources:
Quotation is from Douglas Adams Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Editing costs are from adverts on gmail.