hello my fellow lush members and such I was told about this website from a friend on another website. I live a very sexual lifestyle and i have nobody to tell my thoughts and most of all my adventures to my friends would be horrified my co workers would have me fired and my man knows of some but not all so id rather not tell him or my family. I write as if its my journal and hopes somebody can understand or enjoy them I'm NOT and editor and i hate grammar. so i need help. Who knows maybe i can meet you someday
thanks
Just so you all know, it's a short piece, and it doesn't need a great deal of work, but it does need some cleaning up and, perhaps, some advice by someone with some experience. Be lovely if someone could help our new girl out here. thanks.
rach
You can’t truly call yourself peaceful unless you are capable of violence. If you’re not capable of violence, you’re not peaceful. You’re harmless.
Hello out there,
I am an editor, freelance and work for a publisher. I would love to help anyone who needs it. I am in the US, in the Northeastern part but I will help you no matter where you are. I also proofread if that is all you need.
Just let me know.
Prepared to help, if you're prepared for the consequences.... lol
Being nowhere near as nice a person nor anywhere near as erudite as AvgBlkGrl all I can say is that if, after having a couple stories rejected by story verifiers, you fail to simply learn from your mistakes and move on to something else it's your loss, nobody else's. Very little you, or anybody, can say is sufficiently important for you to exercise yourself over a single story rather than benefit from what those "editor Nazis" tell you and occupy yourself with penning another story as opposed to spending your precious time railing against those "Nazis" trying to help you find yourself and your own niche on Lush. If you actually think the editors here are "too strict" you need to see a tottering, toppling pile of publishers rejection notices before forming any conclusion.
Wouldn't you rather have a nice cup of tea?
I don't consider it rejection, I consider it feedback and suggestions for strengthening my work. Usually, it's just minor things; paragraphs are too long, or I've used the number 5 instead of writing it out. Those are quick to fix and resubmit, and some of the editor Nazis have been kind enough to even change them for me on occasion, though others just leave notes. Looking at some of my own stories, they could be a lot tougher. As I understand it, they do this work on a voluntary basis.
Anyway, If you want to write, then you should work on improving your craft so that people will actually want to read your stories. That means practicing, and taking feedback and learning from it (and not just sitting around hating grammar - what the hell did grammar ever do to you, anyway?). In that way, editing is a collaborative, rather than antagonistic experience. I appreciate that the site does have some kind of standards. I agree that a lot of what gets published here isn't at the level of "Shakespeare or Steven King," but I also recognize that it could be a lot worse without their gate-keeping efforts.
Don't believe everything that you read.
A newbie here.
I stumbled across this thread whilst perusing the Writing Resource section. I am considering writing some real-life-experience stories and have now, after reading this thread, been a little put off by the posts. I don't want to put hours of work into writing for the site, only to be told that my grammar and punctuation isn't good enough.
Just how finicky are the moderators concerning grammar and punctuation?
I also am seeking an editor. I have posted a few stories here that were rejected at first until I corrected the mistakes the Admin listed. The current story I submitted had been rejected 3 times. I made the corrections but somehow fail to correct them all.
Writing is a somewhat new element for me and I occasionally need assistance. I do learn from my mistakes, just not as quickly..