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Originally Posted by Lemurion
You got me....
Though I do think that the fact that marketing is about enticing others to do things instead of doing them yourself makes it very different from both writing and edting.
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I don't know. A good part of marketing is writing compelling and persuasive copy, reports and/or proposals. I suspect a good number of marketing types consider "writing" a critical skill.
An editor needs to attract and/or deal with clients or employers, so there is an element of marketing there.
Only a "writer" of the most artsy-fartsy strata can truly ignore all elements of editing and marketing and leave that to "the little people," so I'd say "writer" is the odd man out....and that's only a small fraction of writers....most of us have to do some editing and marketing, too.