I think that I may have taken on too much!
I have already driven two helpful volunteers to distraction.
I am setting about putting my hundreds of short stories into meaningful anthologies which will be published on Amazon.
I know people are waiting for Book 3 which themed "The Old West" and contains over 80% new material, but we have not even got Book 2 edited yet! It looks like it will be out this month, but we desperately need help with Book 3 to get it out next month.
And then after that I have 12 more books of a little over 60,000 words (around 17 stories) each, to be done monthly.
Is there anybody out there who can help me?
I hope that people will understand that I edit like a write - I just gallop along leaving divots in the grammar. I am not truly qualified. Are you.
Please let me know or contact Erin in her Doppler Press role.
Hoping so hard that we will be rescued ...
Maryanne
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Edit on the run
It would make life easier on both you and your volunteers if you would edit as you go. Write a 1,400 word story? Edit it before posting for the first time. Write a 5,000 word story? Edit before posting for the first time. Write a 20,000 word story? Yeah, edit etc.
That way, when it comes time to compile all these into an anthology, you are not faced with having to edit 26,400 words all at one go. While there still may be some editing left to put the final polish on things, you won't be faced with a behemouth to edit in a week or two. You don't start out climbing by tackling Everest first thing.
PS: Excuse my own mistakes in this post. I had to get a new tablet and haven't found a spellchecker to fit it yet. Which reminds me, if the program you are writing with doesn't have a spelling and (hopefully) a grammer checker, get one that does. They won't catch everything, but it can make things easier down the road.
NOTE I am using the term "edit" when I really mean spellcheck, and I hope you are too. If your work needs Editing, you've seriously got a problem. I did some editing as well as spelling and grammer checking for PB when he wrote his Gaby fanfics. Even though we were on much the same wavelength regarding where he was going with his stories actual editing is a time-consuming business not for the faint of heart, and can be very exhausting. Seriously editing someone's baby can destroy friendships. I've seen it happen.
Best of luck,
Karen J.
“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” - Turkish Proverb
PortableApps offers LibreOffice ...
... for free, It is a feels-like/works-like "clone" of the Windows Office Suite. Has spell check, and limited grammar checking.
Download the Portable Apps menu system first (from https://portableapps.com/ ), then download other programs from the menu system. It's just way easier that way. Documents are largely interchangeable with MS Word. (Maybe not for your heavy-math thesis or Dissertation, but close enough for 'regular people').
And, you can always save in plain text format for uploading elsewhere.
And free. Easily removed if you don't like something, and it does not do a Micro-Squish mind-meld with your registry.
Editing
Your stories are NOT riddled with errors.
My guess is that you would be your own best editor.
Given the time that has elapsed since you wrote them, you'll be reading them from a different perspective.
Good luck.
Jill
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)