Letters to the Editor
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Who Edited This, Gary? No Credit????
You are correct, utterly, totally, about editors. Who edited you this time? May I edit you next time?
My experience includes songwriting: Many great pros accept suggestions. Others will put out a contract on you if you do not kiss the feet of their every punctuation mark, even when they themselves do not even include punctuation.
You said, "The truth is, you have to learn how to be edited just as much as you have to learn how to edit."
It turns out that, by the time most people reach this point, they are too old and too silly to learn, and they never learn to write. And the audience does not care. The audience may not even read or listen all the way to the end, because of the bad writing.