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dancingstupid
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#1 | Posted: 1 Mar 2019 05:22
I've been reading everyone's stories for years and a couple months ago started writing some of my own to try and contribute. When I started writing, the words just came tumbling out and I find it a lot of fun. I submitted my first series and I got it flipped back to me due to some grammar issues. Nothing major, mostly making sure I do my quotations and commas right. thing is, while i love writing I don't love editing--maybe that's everyone--but I spend 90% of my real life editing writing for my job and i don't really relish idea of logging hours editing my own work to publish here. All that to say, is there anyone out there that.... enjoys editing? I mean, I'm guessing no one would and I might as well be asking someone to clean my toilet. But then again we are all into different stuff, and maybe fixing my commas is just the thing that will get someone else's juices going, ha! So I thought I'd ask. So you know the stories I've been writing so far are all with a female or females as the spankee(s), all adults only, and often involve school discipline using paddles or outside school discipline using belts, switches, etc. I think most people would say I write fairly extreme stories with a lot of build up in them and a fair bit of embarrassment.

Ideally I'd find someone who just loved reading over and fixing my minor errors. Or, I'd very much welcome someone who really wanted to contribute and add to the stories. I would be fine with a co-author. I can write a lot and quickly and would love to post the dozen or so stories I've already written and get going on a lot more. Anyway, message me or respond here if interested. or feel free to tell me I'm crazy. Write on you fun crazy people you.

Eric
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#2 | Posted: 1 Mar 2019 15:52
How long are they? What format are they in? When you got them back with her specific things pointed out or was it just a general complaint?

Tiredny
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#3 | Posted: 1 Mar 2019 20:24
Dancing, have you tried Word's spell/grammar checker? It actually does a pretty decent job. It's not perfect as the example below shows. Word would find both of these acceptable, yet the meaning is entirely different.

Let's eat grandma!

Let's eat, grandma!

Notice how commas can save lives! Also notice how punctuation completely changes the sentence meaning.

I totally enjoy school stories involving paddling. My question to you is, how is it possible to do that "adults only"?

Regards,
Tiredny

tyrport
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#4 | Posted: 1 Mar 2019 21:26
Commas save lives only if Let's eat Grandma isn't about oral sex. ; )

Ishmael
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#5 | Posted: 8 Mar 2019 22:31
Not volunteering, but any editing is easier if a style sheet is decided on first.

galt54
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#6 | Posted: 9 Mar 2019 11:45
Ishmael

What is a "style sheet"? I am not familiar with the term (I live in Sweden).

bluepencil
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#7 | Posted: 11 Mar 2019 00:54
A style sheet is explained nicely here: http://www.romancerefined.com/style-sheets.html

galt54
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#8 | Posted: 11 Mar 2019 03:50
bluepencil

Thanks. Now I know something I didn't before!

Goodgulf
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#9 | Posted: 15 Mar 2019 07:35
You might also like The Little, Brown Handbook - which is nether little nor brown. Little and Brown were the names of the company that wrote it. Here is a link to an amazon site
https://www.amazon.ca/Little-Brown-Handbook-12th/dp/0205213073

But if you search on The Little, Brown Handbook you will find pdfs of old editions.

What is the book? The style guide for the Little, Brown and Company publishing company, containing their rules for the English language. It is (of course) American centric but has chapters covering everything.

Everything.

Frequently confused words, rules for each punctuation symbol, how to structure a sentence, everything.

njrick
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#10 | Posted: 16 Mar 2019 19:16
Goodgulf:
The Little, Brown Handbook - which is nether little nor brown.

Goodgulf:
It ... has chapters covering everything.

Does it have a chapter on avoiding misleading titles?

Goodgulf:
It is (of course) American centric

And the problem with that would be...?

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