The writers who bristle most at editing, who see it as censorship, are usually the writers who need editing most: who need to be told that their unvarnished thoughts need to take into account obvious objections & try to win over readers who don't already agree.
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In psychological terms, an editor is the super-ego that provides the necessary navigational skills to the id & ego. But some writers (usually guys) see the super-ego only as censorship & not a necessary voice in constructing complex arguments.
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also RR Martin
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he solved that by not writing anything in the past 9 years
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I often imagine how much better Les Miserables would have been if Victor Hugo had a tough editor
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Now that one hurts. That chapter on the Paris sewers--no cuts! All STET!
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Finnegans Wake Disease
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Finnegans Wake is good!
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Woodward is a good example: saves the scoops for his long books, most of which are just puffing up his favorite sources in a transparent quid pro quo
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Jonathan Franzen announces he’ll be publishing all 500,000 words of “A Key to All Mythologies” on Substack
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