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I don't hate editing I just hate when certain things are changed or when three books been edited and people still find minor errors and say the book is poorly edited in their review.
Justin, Carole: do I hear an "Amen"?!
Yes, editing is important. For those people who know better, it reduces distractions and improves flow. Having said that, even books published by well-respected traditional companies have errors in them. Do your best.
It always annoys my wife and I when we find errors in our books when we've been over them several times, then sent them to the author for review, then done a final check. But yeah, even big publishers have that problem. I read a science book a year or so back that had an entire half of a paragraph missing. The paragraph just ended in mid...I'm pretty well convinced that this happens because of technology. The process of creating a book these days introduces more opportunities for errors to creep in than it used to. You can easily add errors while you're taking out other errors.
Some day I'm going to get myself a t-shirt that reads, "I hate typogorphical errors."
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I think that part of the reason might be that our minds automatically fill in words that should be there but aren't. Add that to reading the same thing more than once and the eye-blink rate goes down significantly.Dale, get that tee shirt today. What a great idea!
Apparently, editing is no longer required. At least it isn't by the two people who have provided written interviews for well known publications that I've just read on my phone's Google app from the last day...
Editing is still essential, but a lot of times, I think authors feel they can't afford it or don't realize what it can give them, so they try to go without or do it themselves.That's why I'm glad that Writer's Clubs like this one (https://www.patreon.com/AWritersPath) includes editing with a professional as part of the membership package, to where authors can finally afford the help they don't even know they need. Maybe, in scenarios like this where it's free, we'll discover what we're missing. :-)
Why EDIT is a Four-Letter Word
Authors hate editing. We hate it more than being interrupted or staring at the wall, frozen and unable to type a word. It is, unfortunately, the most important thing we do, once the story is down on paper. It’s time-consuming and hard and creates more work, but essential to creating a polished manuscript.
Editing needs to be done in four stages.
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