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Old 01-27-2016, 08:34 PM   #45
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Originally Posted by Hitch View Post
I'm with you there. And while we're at it: they don't even have to pay an editor, if they are simply willing to invest a little time and effort. First, they can buy Brown and King on Self-Editing: http://www.amazon.com/Self-Editing-F...dp/0060545690/ . Second, they can act like real-grown-up writers, and JOIN a BLOODY CRITIQUE GROUP. Spend some time trading critiques with other writers; read their crap out loud, and suffer the slings and arrows of other writers' input.

To my mind, the single biggest loss in self-pubbing is the omission of a critique group and/or writing group. It's a writer's rite of passage (along with all the OTHER things that self-pubbing omits: writer's courses, seminars, etc.) and it also provides a TON of editorial polishing that you only get by rubbing up against the coarse edges of other people's opinions.

Oh, well.

Hitch
"But I has an English degree and don't need no editor or book."
Yes, that was an actual excuse.
Oh heck one of the worst books I ever read was an unedited novel by an English professor.
No, he had not shown it to anyone before publishing.

Agreeing with you on the critique group.
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