Baffled crows and book #21

[thistle_chaser]

165 icons and not a single bird one! I guess a dinosaur with feathers is nearly close enough.

I've been hoping for a bigger bird to come to my bird feeder, maybe a blue jay. I should have been careful what I wished for!

Comments

[thistle_chaser]

I'd hope they'd get an unpaid editor to look it over, for just that reason! Sort of like people use beta readers for fanfic. It's so hard to see errors in your own writing.

It's sad to hear that the ones left that they use aren't good (but not surprising, I find errors in books on a regular basis).

Unfortunately it's not just the world of fiction that's lacking in editors. I'm a tech writer for a multimillion dollar software company. We have no editors. We write, check it ourselves, run spellchecker, and publish it. It's a money thing, too.

[thistle_chaser]

Oh! No, I don't mean a professional doing it for free. I mean getting a nonprofessional (or even better, multiple nonprofessionals) to do a read-through.

I'm basing this off loupnoir's experiences. (She's the only other person who has written a self-published book that I enjoyed.) Once she's done writing, she sends it off to a reader (readers? I can't recall), to have them check it over.

Is that as good as a professional editor? Unlikely, but it's still better than nothing.