So I finished my fifth book recently and gave it to my wife for editing. Understand I gave her a PERFECT work of art. There were no errors in it at all! (as you all know from reading my posts, I am the model of excellent English) She then brutalized the document till the virtual paper bleed out all over the virtual desk with virtual red ink.
So fine, now the doc should be good, so we ship it off to our professional editor.. who spends less ten 1/50th of the time that it took me to write the first draft and again brutalizes it. After awl, we awl knowe I tipe purfectley and awl editors due is incert missteaks of coarse!
Anyways... it just amazes me because I honestly do not turn over my document to my wife for editing until I am sure there are no mistakes in it. I mean it, I read it over and over until I make a pass with out touching anything, but still they (my wife and the editor) find stuff on every freaking line.
The people that say they can edit their own work baffle me. I am not calling them liars, or anything, just saying it is not something that I could ever understand pulling off. It be kind of like asking a crab to fly to the moon I think.
