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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967
Moejoe, could it be that you just haven't been lucky enough to meet the right editor yet?
I'm thinking of a Brian Clough/Peter Taylor analogy here, which I hope you'll understand.
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I get where you're coming from, and there's no doubt that some editors in the past have been formative in the careers of writers. But I just don't see how they're relevant, at least to me.
If my work is terrible, then it is terrible, I have nobody to blame but myself. That's the way I like it. These are my mistakes to make, my fictions to create, for good or bad. If I'm to fall down, then let it be because I made a wrong step. When I put my name onto a document, then it has to be one hundred percent representative of my effort and nobody else. Besides all that, the greater function of the modern editor is to prep for publication, to polish and to make saleable the work. As I don't intend to ever put a price tag on my writing, their main function is null for me.
Plus, everyone I've ever met was an absolute cock.
