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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
...Short stories aren't so bad, but for anything longer I can see the appeal of farming it out to a co-writer to do.
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Or to a professional editor? A fresh pair of eyes can be of immense help. You mentioned on another thread about rewriting books so the character had the same clothes throughout - that's exactly the sort of thing an editor should catch.
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Originally Posted by Nancy Fulda
(As an aside, I dislike the writing/editing dichotomy because it implies that writing is not editing, and vice versa. For me, 'writing' encompasses the entire creative process, from the moment the first words are on the page until the moment the finished draft is sent out into the world. Thus 'writing' includes drafting, revision, editing, polishing, and so forth. But maybe that's just me.)
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But writing is separate from editing, and proofreading. There's a reason why publishers won't ask a copy-editor to proofread something they've edited; it's because it's actually quite difficult to see mistakes if you've made them. Even more so if you're the author and have read it over dozens of times - you're likely to read what you think it there, rather than what is. And as I said above, an editor gives a fresh perspective.
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Originally Posted by anamardoll
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I do definitely recommend using an editor, though.
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Hear, hear! But...
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Originally Posted by anamardoll
[B]You can get very good editing work done for under $200
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That must be a
very short book! As an in-house editor, I'd expect to pay something like GBP400 for a typical 50K-word book. At the price you give, I can't see it being much more than a proofread.