From: thelastearthman@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, June 8, 2014 4:17:52 PM UTC-7, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:   
   > On 6/8/14 6:13 AM, mumble wrote:   
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   > > I think that I would tend to "self-publish", mainly because I don't want   
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   > > some halfwit editor changing words that change meaning, but also because   
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   > > I don't want potential readers to be filtered out based on how much   
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   > > money they have.   
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   > 	The latter I can understand. The former shows a very large lack of   
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   > understanding of what editors DO. Yes, there are sucky editors (just as   
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   > there are lots of sucky writers) but the right editor will make your   
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   > story better -- and still YOUR story -- mostly by pointing out areas   
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   > where you may have failed to do the best you could have.   
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   > 	There may be, somewhere, an author who cannot benefit from editors. I   
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   > have yet to meet one or encounter a book written by one.   
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   >                       Sea Wasp   
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   > http://seawasp.livejournal.com   
      
   You can learn much from editors.  The advice I've received from the editors at   
   Bewildering Stories has helped me immeasurably.  They've clued me in on my   
   "defects" of which I had no idea existed.   
      
   C.E. Gee   
      
   http://www.kinzuakid.blogspot.com   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)