I will look at the group. I'm kind of in a funny place I suppose, as a writer coming from fandom. I never planned to write erotica outside of fanfic... I never really planned to write erotica in fanfic, which is amazing considering the amount of adult work I've got on AO3. I always liked adventure stories but at the same time I want them to be for grown-ups, so the fact that in fic you could go there as a part of telling a plot-based story was interesting. I'm not aiming to write anything suitable for children or teens, I don't want to write about child or young characters, or even youthful heroes. That doesn't mean the stories have to have adult content in the sense of explicit stuff necessarily, but I kind of miss the feeling of being able to take events ANYwhere, and most of my fic has kind of made a point of going anywhere, but there's a sense that if I'm going to approach traditional publishing then it needs to be sanitised. One of the first things the poet lady said was that she wasn't sure about the (very non explicit) sex scene near the end and she wasn't sure about the characters dropping the F bomb. (I said I wasn't changing it until/unless an agent or publisher made it a condition, because I don't see it being a deal-breaker since it IS easy to change, and I want my swears.)
I've had 13 rejections in 7 months, because the time's caught up on me, and I'm planning to start sending more out, somewhat hampered by computer issues because i lost Word when the laptop died the other week, but maybe like try to send one a week rather than doing batches, to keep it constantly ticking over.
I wrote a sci-fi novel at 15 which would never be publishable, a few others growing up, before a long break for fanfic where I picked at this 6 book humorous fantasy series for the last 10 years or so, and now I'm 41 and looking to publish the thing. Long fiction has always been my thing, even the short stories are never that short. And I can usually only write those if they're picking up and developing known characters. Character development over time is kind of what does it for me so short stories in isolation just don't work.
I can read it and comment back in 1-2 weeks. I doubt I can do detailed line edits in that time frame, rearranging text and suchlike, but then I doubt you need detailed line edits. I can point out potential errors where I see them though and comment on broader factors. So if that's okay I can do that beta swap.
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I will look at the group. I'm kind of in a funny place I suppose, as a writer coming from fandom. I never planned to write erotica outside of fanfic... I never really planned to write erotica in fanfic, which is amazing considering the amount of adult work I've got on AO3. I always liked adventure stories but at the same time I want them to be for grown-ups, so the fact that in fic you could go there as a part of telling a plot-based story was interesting. I'm not aiming to write anything suitable for children or teens, I don't want to write about child or young characters, or even youthful heroes. That doesn't mean the stories have to have adult content in the sense of explicit stuff necessarily, but I kind of miss the feeling of being able to take events ANYwhere, and most of my fic has kind of made a point of going anywhere, but there's a sense that if I'm going to approach traditional publishing then it needs to be sanitised. One of the first things the poet lady said was that she wasn't sure about the (very non explicit) sex scene near the end and she wasn't sure about the characters dropping the F bomb. (I said I wasn't changing it until/unless an agent or publisher made it a condition, because I don't see it being a deal-breaker since it IS easy to change, and I want my swears.)
I've had 13 rejections in 7 months, because the time's caught up on me, and I'm planning to start sending more out, somewhat hampered by computer issues because i lost Word when the laptop died the other week, but maybe like try to send one a week rather than doing batches, to keep it constantly ticking over.
I wrote a sci-fi novel at 15 which would never be publishable, a few others growing up, before a long break for fanfic where I picked at this 6 book humorous fantasy series for the last 10 years or so, and now I'm 41 and looking to publish the thing. Long fiction has always been my thing, even the short stories are never that short. And I can usually only write those if they're picking up and developing known characters. Character development over time is kind of what does it for me so short stories in isolation just don't work.
I can read it and comment back in 1-2 weeks. I doubt I can do detailed line edits in that time frame, rearranging text and suchlike, but then I doubt you need detailed line edits. I can point out potential errors where I see them though and comment on broader factors. So if that's okay I can do that beta swap.