Snuffleupagus said:
Did you check the last two I wrote by chance? I ran it through your "Dialogue checker" and it went through clean. I also used my computers spell check. I did not see any errors in SDT its self when I ran it through. If you checked it and ran it through Pim-Gd would you let me know if you found any errors?
I downloaded them once, looked through them and noted issues with spelling/grammar.
Seeing how you can't seem to find any errors...
I'm using microsoft word 2007.
Lilly Satou
Line 4: "Im no expert" -> "I'm no expert", "but im sure" -> "but I'm sure", "it doesnt belong" -> "it doesn't belong"
Line 5: "Why dont you" -> "Why don't you"
Line 7: "Im ready" -> "I'm ready"
Line 8: "Dont hold back" -> "Don't hold back", "you want to do. " -> "you want to do." (space at line end)
Line 10: "Dont hold back" -> "Don't hold back", "because im blind" -> "because I'm blind", "Lets get started!" -> "Let's get started!"
Line 11: "be suprised what" -> "be surprised what", "after im through" -> "after I'm through", "with you. " -> "with you." (space at line end)
Line 14: "your so forceful" -> "you're so forceful"
At this point, I don't feel like finding the rest. 14 mistakes in 14 lines tells me there's gonna be a ratio of 1 (mistakes to lines),
and I don't feel like searching 157 errors in one dialogue and 155 in the other.
Look for and fix instances of "dont" and "im".
Then try to use things like Word, chrome (it has built-in spell checker! Be sure to set it to English), openoffice, some online spell checker... to further fix things.
Then call me. I'm not really willing to check a dialogue more than once or twice because it will blind me for any mistakes you've made, and then I wouldn't be able to notify you of them - editing blindness is what I would call this, but I can't seem to find a wiki article that agrees with me. This page (http://academicpanhandling.com/2012/03/13/editing-blindness/) does seem to understand what I'm talking about, though.
Basically: I'll check your dialogues once you've fixed most obvious mistakes. Consider me only willing enough to catch about 10-25 errors in a dialogue, depending on how they differ and what type they are. In their current state, this makes me quit checking after the first, say, 14 lines. The cleaner your dialogue is, the more use you'll get out of me checking your dialogue - most typo's will be highlighted by even the most basic spellchecker, but as a dialogue becomes cleaner, I'd be focusing more on misplaced line-attributes ("Let me go!" with held false, or him/her mix ups), proper word usage ("Your cock is so warm!" - try hot instead) and other things that you can't use a simple tool for.
Ah, I suppose it's only fair for me to look at the other dialogue, to see if that has less issues...
Hanako Ikezawa
Line 6: "Dont ask me", "Im begging you"
Line 8: "I cant do"
Line 9: "Im supposed to"
Line 10: "im not doing"
Line 13: "Dont ask this"
Line 15: "I cant do", "Im about to"
Line 16: "I cant", "is to traumatic" (it's too traumatic, in case you don't get this one)
Line 18: "IT WONT GO"
Same thing here. "im", "dont", "cant", "wont"... fix that type of mistake and I'll check your dialogues again.
Plus, once the grammatical mistakes are out, it's possible to start looking at a dialogue on a higher level, which teaches you things about how to write a dialogue (think topics like pacing and dialogue structure).