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Originally Posted by M. R. Mathias
It was edited completely by Cliff Ball and his editing service. If you have a problem with it then contact him. It was a complete edit not a proofread. I just never changed the first paragraph.
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This explains a lot; the book has been edited but not proofed. However, the issues I mentioned are far past the first paragraph so I'm not sure what relevance any changes to it have. And contacting your editor is not for me to do.
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Originally Posted by M. R. Mathias
It has speed bumps because I am not a schooled author. I am a person who wrote a 700,000 word trilogy in long hand in a prison cell without the luxury of a word processor or spell check.
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While an admirable accomplishment, the fact remains that you are no longer in a prison cell, or if you are, you now have Internet access and therefore access to spell and grammar check. But as I said, spell check would not catch homonym errors or run-together words that create new words. Only a thorough proofing by someone other than the writer can catch those, and even then some will slip through.
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Originally Posted by M. R. Mathias
I never claimed to be great. And trust me, as a person who has read at least 500 books I know how good it is. And though it has its problems it is better than most offerings on the market.
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Not great, but modest, I see. Since you know how good it is, there is no need to say any more about that. And since you don't see problems with your work as problems, but as things to be explained or excused away, there is nothing more to say about them, either. That doesn't leave much if anything to say about your work.