her_Joe I have one chance to "sell" my words and ideas to the reader ... and I wouldn't show up on a sales call with my fly unzipped or in a dirty shirt. That kind of carelessness tells the "buyer" that I don't respect them. I want to flatter the reader so s/he knows that I care what s/he thinks and how s/he responds. So I check my spelling. I check my grammar. I check the formatting.

That doesn't mean that I don't make mistakes. Many slip by. But I've found that I can catch most of them by reading the story in reverse, one sentence at a time. I can catch them by reading paragraphs out of sequence. And I can catch them by sending them to my editor, a patient woman who goes ballistic when I do something stupid to disrupt my characters or logic. I edit hers for her, and she does mine for me.
I guess I don't actually see myself selling my work here. I was chatting with H Dean the other day, (we know what side of this issue he is on.) I realized my question for the reader is not was it correct grammatically, it's did you get a thrill, did you cum?

Now my vanilla work is something totally different.

I just don’t find myself able to give the time to my erotica that I would to my vanilla work. I’m giving it away for free. Is it really realistic to expect me to find an editor for something I will never admit to writing? Something I will never be paid for?

When I get a free gift I expect a string attached, the string for reading free erotica might just be imperfect work.