Self edit all the way. Wouldn't have it any other way.
Every encounter I've had with an editor has made me want to turn my back on pacifism for good.
As to whether it would help my work, well, once someone else has stuck their oar in the water, the strokes are never quite the same. My name represents one hundred percent my effort, including all my mistakes and triumphs.
Editors, in my appraisal, are part of a system that should have died out already.
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