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elcreative · 05-24-2012, 10:28 AM

You are missing a fundamental fact... different authors work in different ways. Some plan everything out with detailed timelines, a project chart and acres of notes, some don't and work on a more ad hoc basis. It would be ludicrous to interfere with with what works for an author to meet the perceived needs of some readers when the majority are buying the books as is... if you don't like the way something's going then stop reading, that's fine but you can't compel people to write in a fashion that doesn't work for them... and what happens if what was going to be a minor point suddenly provokes a stream of thought leading to a whole new angle on the story...

I agree that many authors could do with tighter editing but that is getting to be a lost battle with both cost-cutting and more self-pubbing contradicting the use of professional editing and work relationships between author and editor... hopefully it may come back into fashion but I'm not holding my breath...

05-24-2012, 10:28 AM	#37
elcreative Wizard Posts: 2,888 Karma: 5875940 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: PRS505, 600, 350, 650, Nexus 7, Note III, iPad 4 etc	You are missing a fundamental fact... different authors work in different ways. Some plan everything out with detailed timelines, a project chart and acres of notes, some don't and work on a more ad hoc basis. It would be ludicrous to interfere with with what works for an author to meet the perceived needs of some readers when the majority are buying the books as is... if you don't like the way something's going then stop reading, that's fine but you can't compel people to write in a fashion that doesn't work for them... and what happens if what was going to be a minor point suddenly provokes a stream of thought leading to a whole new angle on the story... I agree that many authors could do with tighter editing but that is getting to be a lost battle with both cost-cutting and more self-pubbing contradicting the use of professional editing and work relationships between author and editor... hopefully it may come back into fashion but I'm not holding my breath...