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Originally Posted by Hitch
Now, maybe that's just me being cranky; but in my old and jaded opinion, books should be bloody finished BEFORE the publisher--traditional, self- or whatever--pushes "save and publish."
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I say amen to that.
I understand that one can never catch and fix every error, regardless of the number of proofreaders you pass it by (at least, in part, because one can't satisfy everybody); but as I said before, if I spot two or three glaring errors within the first ten pages of a book, I'm seriously reconsidering my reasons for reading it.
I'm not some literary purist or anything-- I read YA and pulps, even-- but I do have some standards. One of those is have an understanding of the language in which you are writing (and that goes double for translators) and its grammatical structure.
If you are going to violate the rules in the name of art, then do so in a way to allows the reader to understand that you are doing so on purpose and you're not a hack.