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Originally Posted by anamardoll
My writing partner is incredibly creative and she spots a lot of interesting things, but she's (a) not looking for punctuation abuse (SEMI-COLONS! I LOVE THEM.) and (b) she has a very different creative bent.
My editor manages to strike the perfect balance of finding plot holes, concerns, errors, etc. without trying to change or affect the flavor I want to convey. That's something that no writing partner I've worked with can do -- there's just something about creative people that makes them want to "tweak" as opposed to neutrally inform.  |
Are you not describing a proof reader there? I do all that stuff, but I don't call myself an editor. Editors to me are the people who cut out all the unnecesary self indulgent crap and/or rearrange chapters/plot points to make them flow better. Finding mistakes and punctuation abuse is an entirely different skillset, something that is severely lacking in both indie and professionally published books.