One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy.
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I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.
Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.
In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.
An editor is an accomplice, looking in from the outside. That objective view is essential. We don't write in a vacuum, and we don't publish in a vacuum.
I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose things to you that get you to write better. It's a dance between you, your characters, and your editor.
Everybody needs an editor.
Most editors are just worried about their jobs. They're overwhelmed. They're underpaid. They do the best they can.
In my experience, with very few exceptions - I am, as it happens, one of the exceptions - the one thing that most editors don't want to do is edit. It's not nearly as conducive to a successful career as having lunch out with important agents or going to meetings where you get noticed.
Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.
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