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I work as a production editor in book publishing, so I'm constantly reading parts of books, and rarely have time to read a whole book. I used to do that for mon

• failwhaleshark 5y ago
  Oh god. Perhaps a writer, like a solo startup founder, can often fall in love with their "great idea" (first draft) that is so "amazing but no one is special enough to get it." But then there's the uncomfortable truth deriving from averaging truthful opinions: it's between unpolished and horrid. The writer might help themselves by putting it down for a week or two... years, and then rereading it like someone else wrote it. A former roommate's wife was a Hav-ard English prodigy and then editor at Penguin who actually got things done (I hear getting things done in publishing doesn't always happen). If you're in publishing then everyone pitches a draft and everyone wants a literary agent, correct? I think she eventually got burnt-out and left for family and writing on her own. I don't know how I could bear the tortious, torturous ennui of playing with the other people's mud soup without wanting to shower and burn my clothes afterwards because it's not like many are even building mud pies, much less the Great Mosque of Djenné. My attention span is so limited (real ADHD) that a work has to be enrapturing with "Lost-level" antici---pation* to get through it. * Let's do the time warp again.