This provides the basis for people who are like, oh I'm not good at plot/characters but I'm good at world-building; oh I'm not good at prose but I'm great at dialogue. Someone else will fix it.
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In actuality their manuscripts will be swiftly rejected. No one publishes a writer who can't self-edit and no editor is going to turn a mess 'with great ideas' (which aren't particularly great) into a bestseller, at that point you have to hire a ghostwriter.
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Alternatively you have to marry someone whose mom is a Hachette executive or hope your mom is one of those, then yeah you'll get that mess published, sure.
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If you think 'I'm great with dialogue but not prose', no writer who's good at prose will collaborate with you to make your awful mess into something good--that writer can almost certainly write their own dialogue. Same with any other area you treat like a discrete skill.
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even if they could get that published, that seems like just such a hollow way to write.
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I always feel that these people do not read or actually put time into their writing. I'm not saying you have to read and write everyday, life gets in the way. But, you gotta devote time to it if you want to get anywhere.
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... They what?
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Because there’s nothing that sells books to publishers more than unique and interesting ideas.
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