>Find an editor
>Works well for the first chapter, immediately drops out
>Get second editor
>Makes it a few chapters longer
>Takes 4 months to do just 6 chapters
>Quits once I finish the rough draft
Holy fuck, what is with editors being so garbage at doing their job? I just need one person to read the whole fucking thing, but they all drop it because of personal shit.
That's a cool picture you have there, lad. Mind if I save it?
you don't want that one. digging the sword into the ground like that would dull the blade.
Editors, especially freelance editors, are a meme. You honestly don't need one. Just proofread your shit a few times and make some changes wherever you think they're necessary. It takes a while to develop a sense for this sort of thing, but after editing a 200+ page book of your own a few times you'll more or less be able to do any editor's job on your own.
Yeah, but I think getting other people to look at the work is important. Most of the writer's I'ver worked with run into issues about "oh, right, I forgot to write that they had X with them" or something similar.
Really, I can do the grammar and shit, I just need someone to read the damn thing and tell me if I forgot to mention who's stabbing who.
Just get some friends of yours to read it for that kind of stuff. Though continuity errors and other shit like that should become apparent during the proofreading process too, assuming you do it at least 2-3 times or more.
>Just get some friends
Those were my editors. All the writers I used to know stopped talking to me after they went to other colleges. It's hard as fuck finding people who will just read shit.
Get better friends then. I've gotten a few people to read entire books I've written in their entirety.
It's the middle of the afternoon on a Friday and I'm on Veeky Forums
Do you honestly think getting friends is an option?
It depends on where you live. I'm not particularly sociable and I chat up new people outside all the time.