Volunteer Editor Program

[Laurel]

If you're looking for someone to proofread your story before submitting it to Literotica, you can find help here:
http://www.literotica.com/storyxs/voled_stor.shtml

Since we know many of you aren't exactly too keen on asking your wife/husband/coworker/mother to proofread your erotica, these people have volunteered their eyes and brains to help you catch the errors that are sooo easy to miss after you've been working on the same story for hours... This is a tool for you guys to help improve your stories. The program is brand spanking new, so any comments, questions, and suggestions are appreciated...

 

[Wordmage]

This has been bouncing around newspapers and magazines as long as I can remember (oh god). Thought it might be enjoyed by those who use this service and by those who provide it. Enjoy.

EDITOR'S LAMENT
(Anonymous)

The typographic error
Is a slippery thing and sly
You can hunt it til you're dizzy
But it somehow will get by.

Til the forms are off the presses
It is strange how still it keeps
It shrinks down in a corner
And it never stirs or peeps.

That typographic error
Is too small for human eyes
Til the ink dries on the paper
Then it grows to mountain size.

The boss, he stares with horror
Then he grabs his hair and groans
The copyreader drops his head
Upon his hands and moans.

The remainder of the issue
May be clean as clean can be
But that typographic error
Is the only thing you see.

P.S.

He who perfect copy wrote
Never got a single note
But booboo once in what you writ
You'll never hear the end of it!

 

[Weird Harold]

He who perfect copy wrote
Never got a single note
But booboo once in what you writ
You'll never hear the end of it![/B]

I can't really speak for the others, but Promise to pick every nit I can find.

Every word of the lament is true. Thanks for sharing

 

[Greg Lee Hunt]

Laurel,

Thanks. This will be an invaluable service to authors who, like me, are prone to adverbial 'diarrhea' and underpunctuation. I've already availed myself of the service with excellent results.

 

[Sprite]

I have to say I think the volunteer editor program is awesome! I've gotten a few requests and it's been fun reading the stories. I'm an avid reader and being in the publishing field, albeit legal publishing, I enjoy putting my skills to use for another's benefit.

[This message has been edited by Sprite (edited 03-15-2000).]

 

[Guest]

here's a nit for you to pick (rather i'm picking it and i'd like for you to join in)

the story "sister's divorce pt 1" by kip carson has a seen in the opening paragraph that lists the ages of the main characters as 34 and 30. what's wrong with that you ask? later (i believe in the same paragraph) a scene is describe >>>>21<<<< years previous in which the guy gets a boob job from his sister.

i realize that children are maturing sexually at ever earlier ages but a 9 year old tit-fucking a 13 year old with 38D breasts seems a little extreme.

have i generated sufficient verbiage on this nit yet?

suggest 11 yrs previous as correction

 

[Weird Harold]

Originally posted by bobcommando:
a 13 year old with 38D breasts seems a little extreme.

A good observation, but it's not all that unrealistic.

My eldest daughter was A D-cup at 14. A couple of my younger daughters friends were fairly close to that size by age 13.

Early and frequent visits by the breast fairy run in some families. It wouldn't surprise me to find out that precocious male puberty ran in the same family.

Finally, these are fantasies and hyperbole is to be expected.