Katie West: Sometimes writers think they don't need editors. I tend to disagree (a biased opinion, sure). This article nicely explains their value. lithub.com/is-line-edit...

Sometimes writers think they don't need editors. I tend to disagree (a biased opinion, sure). This article nicely explains their value. lithub.com/is-line-edit...

Is Line Editing a Lost Art?lithub.com “Extraneous baggage”—that was how Albert Erskine, line editor of Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree, described slow sections of the submitted manuscript. McCarthy listened. He spent months revising and cond…

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I'm just impressed anyone could try and edit a lion.

Just that small shot of the hand edited manuscript is giving me a panic attack.

I really enjoyed the original Foundation series (which were published in a magazine). When he did the sequels, his attitude was "Yay, no editors!", but when i read them i thought, these are bloated, he needed an editor.

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