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Originally Posted by Catlady
Going along with that advice, if a writer really can't or won't hire an editor, he or she should at least put the ms. away for several weeks and then reread it with fresh eyes.
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YES, THIS^!! Thanks--I meant to say something about this, and spaced it. But
that doesn't tie with instant gratification, either.
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Originally Posted by issybird
An irony is that it's most likely at the ends of the spectrum. The tyro writer and the madly successful, huge fan following, presold author are both prone to this. We've all run across the "too big to edit" syndrome, even to Stephen King and J.K. Rowling and so forth. Nothing's going to hurt their sales and I even suspect that there's a large element in the fan base that thinks that more is always better, i.e., they'd prefer a shapeless 600 page mass to a tightly crafted 400 page book.
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Yeah, true. Hell, I've been guilty of that myself, a long time ago and far far away, LOL. I remember being young and grabbing a book in a bookstore just because a) it had an intriguing cover in a genre I liked, and b) it was horrifically
FAT. I was taking a trip, and wanted a big book! :-)
Hitch