/lit/ - Literature

>>19614980
Always, anon.

>>19614984
I have a working relationship with the editor but I use them exclusively for short stories. I get a discounted rate because I've worked with them for a few years now and the last 5 stories they've analysed have been published. IMO that should mean I pay him more, not less, since it's obviously useful, but I'll take what I can get. Usually I will write the whole story, leave it for a few days, read it fresh and tweak/polish to help with the flow/rhythm, then send it off to beta readers, and after the beta readers get back to me I'll send it to the editor as a final step. Then I submit to journals.

For this novel, which is my first, the publishing house have stipulated that in-house editors will look over it for me, so it's a different process.

>>19614989
Sure, pic related is from my most recent short story that's been accepted but hasn't been printed yet. I know my writing probably isn't to everyone's taste and someone will complain my sentences are too long but I'm comfortable in my style now.