if they want to produce a really well written book. Harper Lee worked on To Kill a Mockingbird with Tay Hohoff, her editor, for more than two years to polish what apparently was a quite rough stone into the jewel that that book was. When its precursor, Go Set A Watchman was published with Lee's permission but without much of her participation, a lot of people noted that it would have been a far better novel if it had undergone the same kind of editing process.
I've been trying to do some translation work on a book by an author I have the highest respect for and am finding that this particular book - not one of his most well known but one which I think is uniquely valuable - could have used some rigorous editing, as well. I've realized that my virtually clause by clause notes which I've taken on it broke down many of his extremely long complex sentences into separate sentences and have wondered if translating my notes might not be both easier for me to do and to publish online - I'm sure it would violate America's absurd copyright laws but I might do it anonymously in several places so someone might profit from it. The author will be long dead by the time I get around to doing that so I don't feel any moral compunctions against doing it. I don't much give a damn about the American copyright laws as they've been expanded to absurd lengths to maximize profits well past the death of the original author or their children's lives.
As I've said to you guys before - this is an answer to yet another trolling about the quality of my writing - if you notice a marked rise in the quality of the writing here, such things as the words that unintentionally get deleted in my revisions remaining where they were, you'll know I've hit the numbers and can hire someone to edit me. Till then you get it quick and dirty, just like I write it.
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