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Originally Posted by ScalyFreak
What I meant was that anyone who wants me or anyone else to read what they've written needs to have someone else read it before we do. Someone who's not afraid to call the writer on short-cuts, sloppy character development, boring interludes that add nothing to the plot, et cetera.
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Ah.. here is where we very much agree.
This is actually why I have a bugaboo about the fussing over grammar: because so few seem to be able to handle pacing or character development, and such at all. They get an editor to fix grammar mistakes. There, all done!
I quit a certain other writer's forum because the writers didn't want to talk about that stuff. They only wanted to talk about how the key to "quality" was copy editing.
And the thing about that stuff -- the pacing and plotting and character development -- it can't be edited into a manuscript. You can learn from critique for the next one, but if you have lousy characterization, you can't just
fix that.
Camille