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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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The author
should not be editing his/her own work. Seriously, do programmers release code to production when they are the only testers? Ridiculous. Creators have blind spots; it's their baby. They need editors.
I would also add that the *kinds* of errors you see in poorly-edited vs. poorly-written books are different. There are books out there that no editing short of a rewrite will ever save. I have read books that had very few/no typos, but wooden prose, horrible pacing, cardboard characters...ain't nothing going to save that.