All Comments on 'Succubus Ranch Ch. 04'

keep up the good work. please consider a story about a sexy dryad succubus. i would enjoy that tale in one of your future works. and please keep writing these great naughty tells.

... but you need an editor to help with grammer and sentence structure. It will bring a big improvement.

I'm a former journalist and have come to not trust editors for the sole purpose that they like to change stories around to their liking and to the way they write. I try to catch my misspellings and poor sentence structures on my own, to the point that I do go over my stories at least two times after I finish them before I submit them to be posted; however, I'm not perfect and mistakes do make it through. Please forgive my mistakes, as I am human, but since editors only want something their way, I won't use them if I can help it. It's why I post on the internet.

By the way, it's spelled grammar, not grammer.

And you're right to prefer it that way, mjm. When editors stomp on my dialog and change my plotline, I just say no. ;) The best editors are those who say "That's busted, here's why, now fix it." instead of trying to fix it for me. Like you, I do my own clean-up passes to catch grammatical screw-ups and oopsies but I always welcome additional pairs of eyes.

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If an editor wants to write, more power to 'em -- just don't expect me to provide the framing for the house. Good luck to you in your writing, and now I'll go check out your story.

The only time I seriously *suggest* writers resort to an *editor* before posting is when I find their story really interesting, refreshing, or memorable in a *literary* way --- in one extreme or another, EVEN if I don't personally like it!<p>

Otherwise, except for some smart alec and irrelevant remarks (because I feel they've *wasted* my minutes!), I don't bother. I think it is totally stupid for some readers and writers to keep saying, "If you don't like it, don't read it." I don't know why people can be so stupid sometimes!: No one can know whether they like a chapter --- much less a "story" --- if they didn't read it and read it seriously, first! For example, I NEVER read BDSM, gay male stories, and THEREFORE NEVER comment, positively or negatively on those. Because I have NO INTEREST in them, positively or negatively! But the genre I DO read --- do "shop" for sophisticated, enjoyable, or refreshing stories, I DO FEEL like the author has tricked me, has wasted my time, when they seem to want to hook me at the beginning with suggestive/deceptive titles or preludes, but then go idiotic once I get into the story... <p>

Anyway, it's silly to suggest to others to check their grammar make countless blunders in my own writings and comments. For me, if the story is understandable, if it is INTELLIGENTLY written, then, unless the spelling, plot, time-flow, and/or tense is really getting in the way of my enjoyment ---- I am not too bothered. <p>

But, YES, please, don't use "waste" every time when it is "waist," or "there/there's" when it is "their/their's", or "who" when it is "whom," or "who's" when it is "whose," or "your" when it is "you're," etc., etc. That's very, very annoying! <p>

But lastly and most important, as MJM202036 says, most of the volunteer editors in Lit. and other free forums have neither the needed "expertise" nor quality time necessary to do a good job anyway, except for the most rudimenty checking... It is incumbent upon (okay, maby not incumbent but perhaps it behooves) the writers, if they want serious feedback, negative or positive, to do their own checking; that's a sign they take their writing seriously and that they respect their readership....<p>

Unfortunately, with the exception of a few really decent writers here in Lit., I would say 97.5 percent of the stories here, as well as authors, are written mostly at the 4th through 7th grade level, in plotting, sophistication, and seriousness. It is hardly relevant to ask that they check their grammar, syntax, spelling, etc. that rigorously. For, with the exception of the 5 readers they seem to write for --- whose goals is to see how many times they "come" while reading it --- most of us don't give a swank one way or another, even if we happen to scroll through it (in order to kill time or boredom)......

Actually, the genres I've never read are more than BDSM and "Gay Males." I seemed to be singling them out! ;o) The list is actually more extensive: <p>

(1) Transsexual/Cross-gender. (Nothing against them; just not my idea of fun! o:) <p>

(2) Anal (ditto as #1)<p>

(3) Celebrity. (This has got to be the dumbest genre! any man or woman who fantasizes putting his/her penis or tongue inside people who having had hundreds or thousands of others spitting, shitting, pissing, or leaving trillions of scrawling, squirmy germs, bacteria, and viruses in there ---- such a person has got to be insane!)<p>

(4) Fetish. (Smelling/licking dirty feet/buttholes ain't my kind of fun or eroticism) <p>

(5) Non-English. (For some mysterious reason I can't seem to read German or Icelandic language, although I do read and write three other languages outside of English...)<p>

(6) Group Sex. (Reason #3; it is GROSS, unsanitized and not healthy, no matter even if all those porn make it look like swallowing gallons of those billions of crawling viruses, germs, and bacteria is really "erotic": look at their faces & genitals after they've been doing that for a few years! Scary, their faces are all scarred, and yet they went into the industry being truly some of the most umbemished, beautiful faces! Women can be so dumb sometimes, to their own physical/mental destruction...) <p>

(7) Mind Control. (This is nothing but 4th and 5th grade BOY fantasies and stories; there's no way in hell I, as a grown man, can engage in it!) <p>

(8) Nonconsent and Reluctance. (Similar to the reason in #7, except this one is about rape and/or in some other way inflicting pain on another person. Even in "fantasies", there is just no fuckin' way I can "enjoy" --- much less getting a "hard on," "for stroke purposes" --- when men [99% of the time it is men] are inflicting pain on women with the latter, from what we are told [by both women and men writers!], supposedly "enjoying" being tied up, spanked or have their nipples or clitoris, pinched, pierced, or cut, screaming loud and long for such treatments! Some people think living with the likes of Jeffrey Dahmer is quite okay or romantic, whether those men are strangers or their "loving partners"; not I... I think that's insanity, to an appreciable degree...)

Supernatural beings are ripping off "Burma Shave" now?