I've had someone PM me to give constructive criticism on a story, but we've hit a bit of a snag with how he gets the story to me for me to read it in full. How do other people achieve this?
I understand that only image files can be sent by PM. Do you exchange email addresses with the person who wants to share a story with you, or is there another way that people use?
Information gratefully received.
I have used google docs to share a document with someone else.
Yes, I usually exchange email addresses. Since I only really proofread for people I consider close friends, it's not a big deal.
I was just dealing with this. I ended up creating a account that I'm going to reserve for this use.
I've had a number of writers send me stories up to 10K words in PM's here, and I've edited them right in the return message box. I've also received them in emails, but sometimes line-breaks, spacing, and other formatting is lost in some emails when copied and pasted into different word processors. But I've never had any problems editing directly in PM's on Lush.
There anyone good for subcontracting for proof reading, like someone I can send my work to without it getting copied?
Maybe I took a risk but I emailed someone after asking for an editor on another site. I have an alternate email address for that.
The PM system works fine. Only snag is with italic or bold words which become plain text.
As an editor, I get over that by use of (brackets) around the words required in italic. The author then formats them as italic in the submission panel.
You can PM your story text to a Lush friend to proof and edit for you.
Of course exchanging emails and sending text that way works also. As well as creating a PDF and emailing that to your proofreader/editor to mark the corrective edits on for you to make.
If you do exchange text by emails and then upload the final version to Lush, please proof it over really close for spacing problems. Some word processing software can have incompatibilities with Lush's submission text box, especially in line and word spacing. You'll need to fix that in the edit mode upon uploading. That is often too big a job for the verifiers to do. And please, do check for that.
If you encounter that problem, paste your correct text into a PM to send to yourself. Cut and paste that into your Lush text submission. That way it should retain the correct spacing. But it would lose italics if you used that. You would need to re-italicise any words meant to be italic.
I highly recommend using a proofreader/editor. A fresh set of eyes will almost always catch mistakes that the author misses.
