| Profile Statement:
I love to read the stories on this site, but I find it terribly distracting when they contain spelling and grammatical errors. So, I'd like to edit your story to make sure it's a smooth read. I'm not really here to comment on the story arc - it's your story and there are audiences here for every kind of story. I'll be happy to tell you if I liked it, but don't let that carry a lot of weight.
I checked a lot of categories because I read most of them but also because I'm not going to give you advice on whether your characters are realistic doms/subs or lesbians or wookies - I'll just make sure you spell their names the same throughout the story, use the right tense, don't shift numbers, and don't abuse homonyms.
Pet peeves - your interest was more likely 'piqued' than 'peaked' - though the latter is possible in a slow build story.
You probably waited with 'bated' breath, not 'baited' (unless the story takes place at a really bad sushi restaurant).
Shoes have heels, wounds heal slowly.
People, especially turned on people, might shudder, but, in old New England, they would shutter the windows when a storm was coming.
Tense is a bitch - most stories are written in the past tense - but then it gets all tricky when describing dialog. "I told her I have a fascination with pierced nipples" is OK because you still love pierced nipples. But, "she said she would be right back as she has to go to the bathroom" isn't going to work unless she's been holding it ever since. But, then, with quotes - she said, "I'll be right back, I have to go to the bathroom."
I can send word docs with edit tracking on so you can see exactly what I did. Or, I can send clean copy that you can just post.
Oh, and nobody's perfect - I have one story posted under a different name and there are typos in it... I've edited a bunch of stories - I clean up dozens of errors and then the author posts and I see that I missed one or two. Sigh.
How this site works:
Editors are volunteers and do not have super user access to Literotica - we can't see your rejected submission unless you add it to your e-mail as an attachment.
Each time an editor changes his profile, it moves to the top. The first few listed profiles will get a lot of e-mail that week - skip down a page or two to find someone who isn't swamped with requests.
Speaking of being swamped, many editors can be slow to respond. Many authors handle this by simultaneously sending their story to multiple editors and posting the first edited copy that they get back. I've taken to asking about this specifically, there are not enough editors to go around, you can't have two. |
