I am trying to self-edit the third book in my action/adventure/humor science fiction series: The Otherwhere Chronicles. The very first chapter is giving me problems. It is the one that contains an alien that learned to speak English by listening to Monty Python’s Flying Circus broadcasts on the BBC. He can only speak in lines from Monty Python skits. You might recall that I have been in contact with Eric Idle for permission to use this material.
But it is sort of a tricky thing to edit. And I am not good at editing. The good news is that it is only three pages long.
So it you want to take a crack at it, please let me know.
Pouring My Art Out 
Heey…what do you know! I learned to speak English from watching Monty Python too!
Sign me up–
crabcakes64@gmail.com
Not sure I have the time, really, but I’ll give it a go–
Oh yeah–I almost forgot to mention my credentials:
My Credentials.
There. I feel better now.
Hey… this is a family show… leave your credentials out of it…
well, this is sort of a commitment, but I sent the fist chapter, or at lest I tried to. Maybe you can do a few. This might end up being a group effort.
Little trick for you too–you already have the emails of anyone who has ever left a comment on your blog…..but it’s top secret and if I tell you how to get them, I’ll have to kill you.
Okay. So I’ll only maim you…a little.
From your dashboard, click on the little “Comments” tab…and ummmm….yah…that’s pretty much it. Voila. Every comment will be accompanied by….ummm…meta-data? I guess that’s what you’d call it. Blogger meta-data. You can really spook people too by sending them emails when they don’t know this trick and have no idea how you got their email.
Great stalker fun.
This might be dangerous to know
I know people managed to find mine, but I am a computer moron.
*edited. Haha
HA! email me so I have your email… brownemonkey@gmail.com
oh, and I did do one little trick. The books are written by an alien, so some aspects of grammar don’t matter.
Also happy to help out with editing. I am not a professional editor of fiction but I wrote and edit some mean research papers.
ooohhh…. as I have said, I can’t afford to pay for editing. I am going to let a few people try the first chapter, and if we are all on the same page… uh… so to speak… we can all do parts of it or whatever. All I can offer are free signed copies and a mention in the front pages… with a link to blogs… oh, and I can do some fun stuff for you on my blog, and also I can write all of you into book five… book four is already written.
Freaking learning English from Monty Python! That is brilliant. Please please let me know when your book is done so I can buy a copy. (Do you have an email list? Put me on it!!!) Haha. You had me at Monty. Following.
Thank you… I am trying to have this book published by about April… maybe sooner… but the first two books of the series are already available, along with my children’s book that I wrote and illustrated.
Will check them out!
yay… thanks
seriously, if you email me so I have your email address, I will send you the fist chapter. We seem to be doing a group editing, tag team thing.
Ok… Can’t do it tonight cause we are having a lot of lightening. (A lot a lot) so I dont get on the computer when that happens, but I can look at it tomorrow night.
no pressure.
(Sp)Lightning.. Haha and you want me to edit. It’s this stupid phone auto correct. I’m weird about not using electronics in a storm. Most people I know are pretty cavalier about it, but it just doesn’t seem very wise. Idk. Probably way on the side of caution and I guess I’m ok with that. 😉
Better safe than sorry… or lightened…
I sent it… but just do it whenever… I don’t want your computer to blow up because of me… unless… you know… it is because I do so something so funny your computer just can’t stand it.
I have to tell you, I have seen every single episode of flying circus; if anyone can appreciate that chapter, I do. And I do. Oh my. I love it. I’ll look at it more tomorrow, but its in pretty good shape.
It’s been working out…
I thought it went without saying, but maybe that was only in my head… I would be happy to help you with whatever, whenever. I am not sure what “editing” is really, technically. My interp of it is watching for typos, and grammatical errors. I read at an early age and loved it, so I was pretty good at English, but only because I knew how sentences were supposed to sound. I could tell something was wrong, but not so much the basics. I could fix it, but couldn’t tell you that the dangling participle was something….
That is exactly what I need… just someone to spot little typos and where commas go. I made it so the whole thing was written by an alien, so grammar isn’t that important.
Hey, send me an email… so I have your email address,,, brownemonkey@gmail.com
you didn’t save my email address?? Does that mean you have not been seeing the funny stuff I have sent you? There was one I sent you and Nert about Canada….
I get emails you send me… but I go thru and clear out emails once in a while or else I can’t find any of them.
it doesn’t save the address’ for you?? I can just start typing “Art” and your email is there for me….??
It probably is, but a lot of people have names that are not at all the same as their emails, and I am a computer moron.
I know we are… as evidenced by my question about your email address book…
I sent you the chapter… I sent it to your work first by accident
Looks like I missed out on a GREAT opportunity! 😦 I’d have loved to help… I can spot a typo a hundred miles away and have a knack for helping things sound “right”. (Plus I’m funny, so… that.) If you’re looking for someone with an English degree, sorry – but I have helped many folks at work with college degrees sound professional (and my birthday-photo “memes” crack people up) and even helped one with his term paper.
I can’t help it but your “007” pic in your slideshow thingie keeps fooling me into thinking Lord Petyr Baelish got snapped at a costume party… 😉
Well I suppose if you really want to You could edit chapter two… or more… I mean, you can do the whole 100 page novel if you want… I can’t offer cash, but I could put you on the dedication page, send you a free copy of all three books… signed… and do some funny blog stuff for you.
No cash; I’d do it just for the ability to put it on my CV. 🙂 As for the rest of your offers – you’re too kind! I’ll shoot you an email.
yay
No, really – excessively kind of you!
I do everything excessively…
I never completed my english requirement in 3 attempts at college, and I have never had anything published. But I Am a Monty Python fanatic, so, sure, why not? Hand over the lupines!
ooohhh… if you could just email me at: brownemonkey@gmail.com so that I have an address to email it to you, I would sure appreciate the effort. I have a few things to do this morning, but I could send in in just a few hours.
Okay… ready when ever you are, JB…
This is really not my within my skill set…. 😉
Tell me about it