by ethomas » Fri Mar 16, 2012 11:33 am
i must say i've read this through fully about seven times now, and when reading it without the distraction of arousal several errors become apparent
my reason for pointing them out is that i assume, as a fellow writer and an english major, you are like me in the sense that you find proofreading excruciating, and that like me, you have little doubt in the proficiency of your writing and can therefore take editions as helpful corrections to improve an awesome thing you made rather than feeling that i am pointing out flaws in your art in order to insult you personally
perhaps you've even already noticed them and/or don't even care what i have to say
in which case i will politely lurk and not bother you again
"Feeling a bit safer, she takes stock of her surroundings and, feeling a bit safer and no longer particularly worried about modesty she removes the tattered remains of her shirt and sits down."
"Mira spends the next few moments collecting the plant’s pollen from her stomach with her fingers, and sucking off" (word "it" appears to be missing)
as well as some improper period placement near quotation marks (because the character's sentence continues of either side of your speech tag, there should be a comma and "be" shouild not be capitalized) and tense disagreement:
"'Someone may find this,' she says out loud to no one. 'If you do,' her voice gains direction as the reality of what just happened to her set in. 'Be careful, and don’t try to find me.'"
plus a few comma splices, and other things which i didn't keep track of