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Goodgulf
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#1 | Posted: 11 Mar 2024 21:07
I'm currently working a very long story (hundreds of pages) that involve several sets of characters in different locations, mostly linked by a common theme (the god of corporal punishment). A couple of hundred pages are more or less ready for uploading, but I need someone to look at it. Is there anyone out there who would like give me a bit of help?

Basic plot:
In a world where gods exist, there's a god of corporal punishment. The story begins in the late 90s when corporal punishment is being eliminated from all schools in Britain, and he's feeling rather down. Fewer worshipers means less power and donations are down, hamstringing his church. A goddess of salacious reporting, who used to beg for his help, targets him as part of series of stories she's about to give (or inspire at) a London scandal sheet. The god of CP agrees without even asking for details, just as long as they spell his name right.

This leads to an all female insertion team, all but two in their late teens or early twenties dressed as schoolgirls, traveling to that god's home realm to retrieve a "challenge cup" for female scholastic team sports. The exceptions are the team leader (who dresses as a games mistress) and an actual schoolgirl wearing her school uniform. At 16 she really wants to learn how to use magic, and thought that she would have no issues with attending the correct schools, but that was before Inland Revenue noticed a few things. Her family going bankrupt, she joins the team in exchange for them paying next year's school fees.

Things do not go well for the team. Things go very, very well for the god of CP, as people are reading his name and talking about him. And yes, his name is spelled correctly.

After the story gets out, a relatively new goddess of girls sports (one based in the US), insists that the cup be returned to world.

Big issues:
Consistent Capitalization: example: "V, Goddess of Fashion", "V, goddess of Fashion", "V, goddess of fashion" - any of those will work, but switching between them won't. And if it's "V, goddess of Fashion" it has to be "D, god of Internet Searches."

British vs American English:
Much of the story is set in Britain (including a curling game in Scotland), some is set in the US, and I'm trying to use the correct words for the settings. A British character will Ring someone while an American character will Phone someone.

General:
Missing words, missing suffixes, shifting tense, misused words (from selecting the first option suggested by spellcheck), and the usual "I can't see my own typos" issues.

Patron
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#2 | Posted: 12 Mar 2024 01:24
I'll be happy to take a look.

myrkassi
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#3 | Posted: 12 Mar 2024 13:04
Sounds interesting. You might have to take the differences between English English and Scots English into account - there are several different dialects of Scots, each with their own accent and vocabulary, so it would depend where in Scotland you set your 'bonspiel' (technical term for a curling meeting). I'd advise against Aberdeenshire, as 'Doric' is a dialect that even other Scots find difficult to understand!

Coincidentally, I'm working on a story involving a goddess of spanking - great minds think alike...?

Goodgulf
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#4 | Posted: 12 Mar 2024 23:25
Alas, I have mostly stopped attempting dialect. Too many failures, mostly being inconsistent with the dialect.

The curling game is set in Edinburgh, at University of Edinburgh. I invented a team from Heriot-Watt University to play them, keeping it inside the city (so they could go for drinks afterwards).

Here is an example the most "Scottish" bit of dialogue in the story:
“We’ve had an odd bit of news.” David Murdoch stated. “’Tis passingly odd. That American goddess of woman’s college sports, Billie something? She dropped of a challenge cup today. At least that’s what the folks at the chapel said.”
“A challenge cup for a nothing game?” Allan Hannah asked in disbelief.
“No, a challenge cup for most everything, as long as lassies are playing for it, to be handed out here today.” David Murdoch clarified. “And this is the only competition today. I expect she was confused over when matches were scheduled.”


But even just using knicker or panties, phone or ring, fanny (backside) or fanny (a girl's front side), and so on. That last one comes into play, as in someone being assured that no one will touch her fanny and then having her backside spanked... Anyway, the story is 400+ pages, but only the first sections are close to ready to be post.

Moody
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#5 | Posted: 3 Apr 2024 01:42
Goodgulf:
General:
Missing words, missing suffixes, shifting tense, misused words (from selecting the first option suggested by spellcheck), and the usual "I can't see my own typos" issues.

Spell check is not as bad as auto correct. When I type an English text while MS Word is still set to German it always assumes that 'its' is a typo and auto correct it to [GER: ist] [which translates to ENG: is]. Not to mention if it's set to English, it is set to American English. Since text is black and white, luckily you don't have to worry about colour ;)

Spell check suggestions from the forum are another issue, if I mention LSF it always assumes I mean LSD ;)
While some might ay they are addicted to spanking, we are not talking about drug addicts ;)

Goodgulf
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#6 | Posted: 5 Apr 2024 07:13
Patron:
I'll be happy to take a look.

Hi, did the file make its way to you? I've never sent a text file that was more than 1 meg before and I'm not sure if it arrived at your end.

 
 
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