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There's an interesting debate, at the mobile-app part of the forum, between learning to program and outsourcing it. Should I learn to program or outsource it?
My dilemma is similar: should I learn to edit fiction or outsource it?
By editing, I meant copy-editing which includes line-editing. The story goes that I've been producing fiction books, some outsourced and some I wrote myself, and recently embarked on a quest to improve my writing skills. I decided to learn the fundamentals, hoping it would give me an edge; but the more I learned, the more I realized how little I knew about writing rules. Run-ons and comma splices and dangling modifiers, to name a few of my errors, littered my sentences. That was basic stuff, I thought.
My thinking is that learning fiction writing is similar to learning a programming language: both are skills that could be cultivated. But at the same time, these skills could also be outsourced. I can easily outsource the editing. Problem is how do I know if it is good editing if I don't know what good editing is? How can I pay someone to edit when I just learned about dangling modifiers? Will the editor create more bugs?
In summary, my fastlane highway forked. In one road, I could take an online course on copy editing while being more involved in the editing process -a process that adds quality to the final product but is time consuming- until I reach editing proficiency. And in the other road, I could leave editing alone and focus my time on marketing and building a scalable system. So.. should a fastlaner learn to edit fiction or outsource this function?
My dilemma is similar: should I learn to edit fiction or outsource it?
By editing, I meant copy-editing which includes line-editing. The story goes that I've been producing fiction books, some outsourced and some I wrote myself, and recently embarked on a quest to improve my writing skills. I decided to learn the fundamentals, hoping it would give me an edge; but the more I learned, the more I realized how little I knew about writing rules. Run-ons and comma splices and dangling modifiers, to name a few of my errors, littered my sentences. That was basic stuff, I thought.
My thinking is that learning fiction writing is similar to learning a programming language: both are skills that could be cultivated. But at the same time, these skills could also be outsourced. I can easily outsource the editing. Problem is how do I know if it is good editing if I don't know what good editing is? How can I pay someone to edit when I just learned about dangling modifiers? Will the editor create more bugs?
In summary, my fastlane highway forked. In one road, I could take an online course on copy editing while being more involved in the editing process -a process that adds quality to the final product but is time consuming- until I reach editing proficiency. And in the other road, I could leave editing alone and focus my time on marketing and building a scalable system. So.. should a fastlaner learn to edit fiction or outsource this function?
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