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My day job is as a software engineer; I code and write user manuals. There are parts of my day job I don't enjoy; I don't love editing my work for errors or beta testing before turning the software in to the next chain in the project, but it's part of my job. I might dream of having the company assign me my own editor or my own personal beta tester, but that's not going to happen.
I feel the same way about writing. I don't love editing my own work, or marketing my novels, but that's part of my job as a writer.
Maybe some publisher would be willing to take all the crappy parts of "writing" in exchange for 70% of my sales. Maybe some other software engineer would be willing to take all the crappy parts of my day job for 70% of my paycheck. In either case, I'm not leaping for the deal.
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