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Originally Posted by crich70
Doesn't it come to the same thing though at least when the author self-edits their own work? Granted it is possible to miss some things as everyone is human but especially now that people can self-publish through places like Smashwords and Amazon doesn't bad editing = bad writing in some cases?
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I think you (generally, not you specifically) are much too generous when equating self-editing with anything at all like professional editing (yes, there are a handful of exceptions). I think self-editing is much closer to running Word's spell checker and grammar checker than it is to what professional editors consider to be editing.
Consequently, I do not think it proper to state bad editing = bad writing. the bad editing beign referred to is not editing at all. I would add that because the final decisions regarding editing choices (i.e., acceptance/rejection of an editor's suggestions) are the author's, bad writing skills = bad editing decisions = bad writing.