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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
The thing you're missing: for most MR readers, and virtually all MR authors, there is no such thing as "good enough" which is short of perfect. Even the people who can't get their stories anywhere close to perfect (a few seriously grammatically challenged people come to mind) are trying for perfect. They think they're doing it right. "It's good enough" isn't what people expect here. It's not what they do, and it's not what they read.
Well, except for the Alternate Civil War guy, but he ran away and wasn't any fun anymore.
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Worldwalker, from the polling results in the 'How many MR books have you read' thread I think that most people at MR just read name authors and post around. My book is an Indie book written in prison by a convict. It is perfect as it is. IT ISN'T Supposed to get a fancy cover and a high dollar edit. If it did it wouldn't be what the guy in the prison cell wrote anymore! You guys are the ones who are missing the point. Read what the prisoner wrote. That is the point. As I said before I can point out a hundred perfectly edited books that suck, but I can also point you to a best seller that has no quotation marks.
Mine is fairly well edited if you took the time to read the 100,000 word (43%) sample you would see that.