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Fic Talk => General Discussion => Topic started by: honey on June 14, 2008, 03:35:48 AM
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Hey guys! I know there are quite a few grammar nazi's here, and I'm wondering if any of you are bored since it's now summer, and might be willing to help me out. I was going to have my brother in law edit "If We Were A Movie" for me since he's a technical writer by trade, but since he's doing it for free, works full time, and his wife just gave birth to their second child, he's really busy at the moment and it's going to take months for him to get to it.
My problem is, my friend wants to pimp me out to a few of her connections in the publishing world, and she's ready for the manuscript so I need to get it as ready as I can like sometime before a year from now when Alan will get it done.
Is there anyone here willing to read through it for at least typos, grammatical errors, and maybe confusing sentence structure? Like I would even be willing to print it out and mail it to you if red penning it is easier. I just need to make sure at the very least, before I send it to these people that there aren't a bunch of stupid mistakes in it. Which I'm sure there probably are right now.
I know that's a lot to ask, so if no one is interested that's cool, but if you were bored and like proofreading, I could really use the help. ;D
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I would totally help ya if I had an actual address you could send it to, but I'm sorta semi homeless at the moment, so, I don't think that helps. :-\
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you know, i'm mostly available. i love being a grammar nazi (as you already might know) ;D
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I like being a grammar nazi too, and I get really bored over the summer. lol
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I loved If We Were a Movie and I'm definitely good at correcting grammar lol. I'll volunteer if you need me to Kelly.
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If you need even more volunteers, I'm available this summer LOL. Maybe you could split it four ways and send a chunk to each of us. I'm okay with correcting on Word; you don't need to send a hard copy to me.
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Aww you guys are super sweet! If you really are serious about editing for me, what I would love to do is send the manuscript to all of you. (Ideally online as a word doc) And if you would all track your changes, (which is super simple to do just a click of a button really) then I can merge all the changes together into one document and see all the changes that have been made. That way I can see what I'm constantly doing wrong, and of course, the more eyes I have looking at it the better.
So I would love, any and all of you forever if you really do want to read over it for me. (I'll still love you all if you don't too,) But if you're really up for it, PM me an e-mail to send the file to. And if you don't know how to set up tracking your changes, just ask.
I'll owe you one! (Though, I doubt you want me proofing anything for you, but I'd do what I can...)
Thank you, thank you, thank you in advance and if by some miracle it ever actually gets published I'll have to buy you all dinner!
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No problem, Kelly! I'm such a nerd that I get this odd sense of satisfaction in inserting commas and all that stuff, so I don't mind. :P Plus, it will give me a chance to read the story before it gets published, since I didn't read it as a fanfic.
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No problem, Kelly! I'm such a nerd that I get this odd sense of satisfaction in inserting commas and all that stuff, so I don't mind. :P Plus, it will give me a chance to read the story before it gets published, since I didn't read it as a fanfic.
haha at least one of us is being optimistic. I appreciate the confidence. (and the edit, of course.) Thanks again, Julie. Did you get my e-mail? I sent it to the only one of yours I have but I know you have several...
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Yep, I got it; I'm up to Chapter 4! I left you a review on AC and saw that you had responded, but when I clicked the link to see your response, it didn't work, and now the review doesn't appear to be there? WTF AC?
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LMAO i think that was me, somehow in posting my response the page froze up and then somehow it ended up deleting the review. So I posted a response as a review instead... it's probably in chapter one... but it was nothing that special.
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LOL gotcha. I just saw it. I'm reading the original fiction version, not the Bsb/AU, but I figured I could go add to your review collection instead of just emailing you feedback. ;) It wasn't hard to figure out who is who, Bsb-wise, so I'm still picturing them in my head, even if they have different names. So if I constantly refer to "Ethan" as Brian, even if he is Ethan in the story I'm reading, that's why LOL.
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Well it sounds like you have enough grammar nazis! Wow, I forgot how to spell nazi for a minute and the subject line of the thread is right there... *facepalm*
You will get it published, Kell!
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LOL gotcha. I just saw it. I'm reading the original fiction version, not the Bsb/AU, but I figured I could go add to your review collection instead of just emailing you feedback. ;) It wasn't hard to figure out who is who, Bsb-wise, so I'm still picturing them in my head, even if they have different names. So if I constantly refer to "Ethan" as Brian, even if he is Ethan in the story I'm reading, that's why LOL.
LOL Ethan/Brian.... same difference. I do it constantly. It was kind of a Bitch when I went back and changed the names, cause I'd be looking for those random ones that didn't get switched for whatever reason and I'd read Brian and wouldn't think anything of it because Brian is Ethan... and so on...
Well it sounds like you have enough grammar nazis! Wow, I forgot how to spell nazi for a minute and the subject line of the thread is right there... *facepalm*
You will get it published, Kell!
aww, that's sweet of you to say. merci! lets hope so one day!
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How awesome would it be to get published?! As much as I love being an author, I also have a dream to be a well-known journalist. Maybe even become editor of one of our big newspapers here in Minnesota. Or a magazine! I just think that would be an amazing job, too.
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haha I never intended for anything to come of my writing, but it's become a hobby that takes up so much of my time now that if I ever could turn it into something more, that would be the coolest thing ever. I'll probably get a nice little wake up call when I start contacting people, but I'm hoping that if I could get someone to at least read it, I might get some good feedback. Even if they rip me apart, that would be kind of cool. But who knows? Nothing at all may come of it, but it's one of those things where I'll regret it if I don't at least try. So we'll see. lol
I think I would hate journalism. I wrote for the school newspaper my senior year and had fun with that, but I don't like the reporting side of journalism. And I would hate reporting on sad stuff like you see on the news. And political stuff is sooooooooo boring to me. I think I will just stick to telling stories. haha.
Magazine though? That could be more fun. It's a LOT of work though.
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LOL Ethan/Brian.... same difference. I do it constantly. It was kind of a Bitch when I went back and changed the names, cause I'd be looking for those random ones that didn't get switched for whatever reason and I'd read Brian and wouldn't think anything of it because Brian is Ethan... and so on...
Hehe, yeah, I found a "Nick" in there already. But no worries; that's why it's nice that four of us are looking at it. At least one of us is bound to catch stuff like that and fix it.
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haha I never intended for anything to come of my writing, but it's become a hobby that takes up so much of my time now that if I ever could turn it into something more, that would be the coolest thing ever. I'll probably get a nice little wake up call when I start contacting people, but I'm hoping that if I could get someone to at least read it, I might get some good feedback. Even if they rip me apart, that would be kind of cool. But who knows? Nothing at all may come of it, but it's one of those things where I'll regret it if I don't at least try. So we'll see. lol
I think I would hate journalism. I wrote for the school newspaper my senior year and had fun with that, but I don't like the reporting side of journalism. And I would hate reporting on sad stuff like you see on the news. And political stuff is sooooooooo boring to me. I think I will just stick to telling stories. haha.
Magazine though? That could be more fun. It's a LOT of work though.
That's exactly how I am. I would never want to write for a career, unless it was a career as a bestselling novelist, because you can't just "be" a novelist - you have to do journalism or technical writing, that kind of thing, to actually make money (unless you are JK Rowling). And I'm not at all interested in that kind of writing. And even if you were lucky enough to make a living writing novels, there would be so much pressure on you to write. Suddenly, it's not just somethig you do for fun when you feel like it; it's something you HAVE to do to support yourself. It's not a hobby anymore; it's work. I wouldn't want it to become work; I don't think my muse would like that much.
But just getting a book published? That would be awesome. And in my naive opinion, you have a real shot, Kelly. The story is interesting, and it's different, being written from the guy's point of view. That doesn't make it so unique in fanfic, but in the real world of publishing, how many young adult romances are written solely from the guy's point of view? Not many that I've read, that's for sure.
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That's exactly how I am. I would never want to write for a career, unless it was a career as a bestselling novelist, because you can't just "be" a novelist - you have to do journalism or technical writing, that kind of thing, to actually make money (unless you are JK Rowling). And I'm not at all interested in that kind of writing. And even if you were lucky enough to make a living writing novels, there would be so much pressure on you to write. Suddenly, it's not just somethig you do for fun when you feel like it; it's something you HAVE to do to support yourself. It's not a hobby anymore; it's work. I wouldn't want it to become work; I don't think my muse would like that much.
that's it exactly for me. I never want it to feel like work. But I'm also in that lucky position that I don't need to support myself. So I can just write my stories and if something happens, then great. And if not I still have fun and at least I tried. The minute I felt the pressure of having to take it so seriously that my future depended on me getting it right, I would be blocked forever. My muse would stage a mutiny and probably kill me. I'd hate to ruin my favorite hobby for myself.
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haha I never intended for anything to come of my writing, but it's become a hobby that takes up so much of my time now that if I ever could turn it into something more, that would be the coolest thing ever. I'll probably get a nice little wake up call when I start contacting people, but I'm hoping that if I could get someone to at least read it, I might get some good feedback. Even if they rip me apart, that would be kind of cool. But who knows? Nothing at all may come of it, but it's one of those things where I'll regret it if I don't at least try. So we'll see. lol
I think I would hate journalism. I wrote for the school newspaper my senior year and had fun with that, but I don't like the reporting side of journalism. And I would hate reporting on sad stuff like you see on the news. And political stuff is sooooooooo boring to me. I think I will just stick to telling stories. haha.
Magazine though? That could be more fun. It's a LOT of work though.
I think if you keep working hard, we will all see your book on the shelves and we'll start geeking out. "Like, oh my Gahd! I like, know this girl! She is so awesome and her stories are like, freaking kick-ass! Like, I so have to buy this!"
Ew, Vally Girl moment... anyway!
I would stick to different parts of journalism. I think I would be more entertainment like movies, art, music, food, theater, etc. And maybe the local news. I don't like politics either. I don't even know if I can accomplish this dream, so that's all it is for now -- a dream!
I would l-o-v-e working for a music magazine, like Blend or Rolling Stone or something. How great of a dream would it be to write about and interview so many bands? Chaa!!
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You'll get published! You're most definitely good enough! I know I spotted this late, but if I can do anything to help, let me know. :) And I'd buy your book if I found it on a bookshelf here!!!! No matter what the cost, I'd buy it & prolly come home screaming, "I KNOW THE AUTHOR!!!!! I KNOW THE AUTHOR!!!!!" Lol.
My dream is to be a famous author some day. I just hafta finish my novel, but I kinda got writer's block. Gotta hack someone off, then do a bunch of other crazy stuff, then it's finished, & I can start plotting it's sequel - lol.
~Lenni~