Story aid

[eyesclosed]

After writing a story and reading the responses, I would like to get some help with grammatical structure. Essentially, I need someone to go over my material before I submit again.

Being new here, I have a few questions for those who wrote stories with photos. I would like to include some in my next story, but may need a bit of walking through.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanx

 

[raphy]

After writing a story and reading the responses, I would like to get some help with grammatical structure.

Think you need one of the volunteer editors

 

[McKenna]

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[eyesclosed]

There seems to be so much here. This site is a lot larger then I once thought.

I guess I will stumble into the right places.

Is there a way I can make corrections to a story already posted? (without reposting)

 

[raphy]

There seems to be so much here. This site is a lot larger then I once thought.

I guess I will stumble into the right places.

Is there a way I can make corrections to a story already posted? (without reposting)

Yeah, but I forget how. Someone will post here and tell you, I'm sure

You could always ask MG. She's always helpful

 

[MathGirl]

You could always ask MG. She's always helpful

Sorry, I'm not taking questions today. No, let me rephrase that: I'll take all the questions submitted. I'm not giving answers.
Still helpfully,
MG

 

[CharleyH]

Sorry, I'm not taking questions today. No, let me rephrase that: I'll take all the questions submitted. I'm not giving answers.
Still helpfully,
MG

Huhm, then I will. The answer is no.

Edit: I asked a moderator who said that one must repost. Since that moderator knows everything about everything computer oriented, I take her advice . . . but this is hearsay.

 

[raphy]

Um, point of clarification here:

eyesclosed said : "Without reposting"

You can resubmit a story, with the same title, and put a message in the notes field of the form (This is the part I forget) and Laurel will swap the old story for the new story.

I don't know if that counts as reposting or not.

I took 'reposting' to mean you'd have to ask Laurel to delete your story, then submit a completely new one again.

So in essence, you can't edit your story, but if you submit the fixed version, Laurel will edit it for you (Actually, she'll just overwrite, but the effects are the same)

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Huhm, then I will. The answer is no.

Edit: I asked a moderator who said that one must repost. Since that moderator knows everything about everything computer oriented, I take her advice . . . but this is hearsay.

The hearsay is right. To correct mistakes in a story, you make the corrections in your copy, and then resubmit the corrected story adding "(EDITED)" to the title. You can also put a little explanation in the "comments" box on the submit page, but that's not necessary. Laurel will replace the old story with the new one.

If eyesclosed is looking for an editor to help with mechanics, just post a request on the Editor's Forum board and someone will probably bop along and volunteer to help. The other way of finding an editor doesn't seem to work so well. Some kind of software glitch, I think.

---dr.M.

 

[eyesclosed]

Thanx everyone. I guess I will have my story looked at, then repost/overwrite with the less grammatically challenged version.

 

[cantdog]

Thanx everyone. I guess I will have my story looked at, then repost/overwrite with the less grammatically challenged version.

The volunteer editors are a little crumbly. Some of the posters in the editor's forum say they've been getting little response.

I'm writing pretty well right now, but making one story grammatical won't hurt me.

Please do try the volunteer editors, but if nothing happens, do two things:

1. Notify the site. "I sent a notice to XXXEDITOR and nothing happened for five days now. " Like it says on the pages you do that from. The site will get in touch with the editor to find out if she has withdrawn from the program.

If you don't care enough to do this, no one else will.

2. gimme a buzz and I'll take it on if I can.

cantdog