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Originally Posted by Scott Nicholson
Yes, most of all writing is crappy, but don't forget that most agents and editors wanted to be writers but weren't good enough.
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Glad you said "most" -- I never wanted to be a writer and still don't.
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Originally Posted by Scott Nicholson
There is no university degree to be an agent or editor. You go to NY when you are 22 and get a job, then hang around. That's not to say there aren't wonderful, passionate editors, but every single one of them answers to a sales staff, stockholders, and corporate board of directors. It's just not necessarily a system designed to publish the highest-quality books.
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Yes, there are university degrees for editorial in the broad sense. At the master's level there are degrees in publishing with emphases on editing.
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Originally Posted by Scott Nicholson
(Incidentally, this is from an author who has been both rejected and accepted by publishers--and my best books were never accepted).
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My experience is that authors rarely are good judges of their own work. Not suggesting you aren't or that you aren't right about your own work, but as an outsider, I would wonder if you are correct.