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Originally Posted by Lemurion
Editing is hard.
Self-editing is really hard.
Any form of editing requires a specific awareness of what's going on in the story, self editing adds the requirement that you be able to see what's actually on the page, not just what you intended to put there.
One issue with self-editing self-published works is that there are people who take that route because they don't have the patience to put that final edit and polish on a book. As more and more people with neither the skills, nor the inclination to learn them, start releasing books the quality is going to go down.
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Hi Lemurion, et al,
I agree with your thoughts re editing. After all, there are good reasons why there are or were people employed to do just that.
Many are the times I have polished a piece and thought it without typos or other faults only to revisit it and see a mass of errors. And I love the language and the act of writing.
It pains me to get a book that is riddled with errors, and though no specific examples come to me right now. I feel somewhat cheated, or let down. I recall in my youth that I never encountered such issues.
I have noticed a number of undesirable traits creeping into published works - often by well-known authors - and this saddens me... as well as annoys. .
Perhaps it is just me, but I see any shortcoming in something I produce as a reflection on me, and I strive for perfection.
Cheers,