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Originally Posted by rhadin
In my 30 years as a professional editor, I have edited many hundreds of books and many thousands of authors. If I were to line up 1,000 of the authors to select those who were not in need of the services of a professional editor, I might find 1 --- the remaining 999 all would benefit from a professional editor's services.
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The old problem of the blind spot hmm rhadin? I mean the writer's blind spot of course. All the reading I've done on writing in the past says to let a work have some cooling off time before coming back to it to see what needs editing because everyone thinks they write deathless prose if they read it right after writing, but if they take a step back they can see all the places where it goes 'clunk.'