The trick to being a good author

There’s only one thing that writers need to know to become a great author: your writing sucks.
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No matter what you do, how hard you try, or how many times you check it yourself, it will still suck.  Know why?  Because you, dear author, know what you MEANT to say.  You have a mental image of what should be happening.  The problem is that you didn’t necessarily make that image appear on the page.

This is why we need editors.  Those poor souls read our crap, tell us when we miss the mark, and th...