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Dirty Word Spellings: Help!!!

Emma — Wed, 05 May 2010 19:50:18 +0000

Writers, I’m in need of your help. I need a dirty dictionary that I can use as a reference text in editing erotic stories. To my knowledge no such book exists (is there a website out there, please advise) so I’ve decided to use you authors as a reference source. Please give me your valuable input on the preferred spellings of the following words. Your help in this important matter is greatly appreciated.

1. blowjob or blow job or blow-job

2. handjob or hand job or hand-job

3. ass cheeks or asscheeks

4. doggy style or doggy-style

5. G-spot or G spot

6. G-string or G string or g-string

7. cock slut or cockslut

8. bare-assed or bare assed

9. fuckfest or fuck fest or fuck-fest

10. strap-on dildo or strap on dildo

11. hard on or hard-on

12. butt plug or butt-plug

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A plea on behalf of editors

Eve McFadden — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:17:44 +0000

I enjoy editing for other people. However, I think I may have to stop, as no matter how often I edit someone, they seem not to learn from their mistakes. I don’t mean to say that I’m a perfect writer (or editor); I think I know the basic rules well enough and most of what I’m correcting is, in fact, technical errors in punctuation or grammar. But why are they repeated? When my work is edited, and especially if a repeated mistake is pointed out, then I make an effort to be on the lookout for it in future stories so that I can eliminate the problem. Quite honestly, I’m tired of correcting the same mistakes. Has anyone else had this problem? Does anyone use an outside editor? Shouldn’t all of the writing process, including editing, be a learning process or opportunity?

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