Bottom line, the more you write, the more you improve, and the less editing you need. I think it is more important at the beginning, when, as a beginner, you can't spot your own weaknesses. There are also different levels of editing, from large-scale structural issues to simple proofreading for typos. I've written well over two million words of fiction (not all of it published yet) and was recently able to negotiate a lower price with my editor just because my books need less editing than average. She has never had to make any structural suggestions and agreed to drop the developmental editing altogether, since I don't need it.
(I've also read ~200 Shadow books, and a lot of the other pulp authors you mentioned. There were 300+ Shadow books, but Gibson did not write them all. There were multiple authors working under the Maxwell Grant pen name.)
I think you’re exactly right. And thanks for the insight! I’ll make sure to look deeper into that statistic and similar ones to make sure they’re all correct for the final draft 👍
Bottom line, the more you write, the more you improve, and the less editing you need. I think it is more important at the beginning, when, as a beginner, you can't spot your own weaknesses. There are also different levels of editing, from large-scale structural issues to simple proofreading for typos. I've written well over two million words of fiction (not all of it published yet) and was recently able to negotiate a lower price with my editor just because my books need less editing than average. She has never had to make any structural suggestions and agreed to drop the developmental editing altogether, since I don't need it.
(I've also read ~200 Shadow books, and a lot of the other pulp authors you mentioned. There were 300+ Shadow books, but Gibson did not write them all. There were multiple authors working under the Maxwell Grant pen name.)
I think you’re exactly right. And thanks for the insight! I’ll make sure to look deeper into that statistic and similar ones to make sure they’re all correct for the final draft 👍