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THE IMPACT OF BOOK EDITING
Williamsji Maveli

Book editing is an art of making a complete book in any genre either in literature or commerce or in any other faculties of someone’s career, An author while writing a story or a novel, he or she need not think about the readers or publishers at that moment of writers mood or thinking. Hence, he may write any stuff whatever the author feels according to the imagination or perception as it comes and goes in the mind screen. Why do we need a book editor? This is an arbitrary question for many authors. Is an editor essential for publishing good book? Who is an editor for a potential author? Everyone pushes editors so hard – especially for the author’s first book. It’s beyond disheartening. The editor serves as the authors guide and adviser for each and every pages of an upcoming book to get it published smoothly. In the first round of editing, the proposed book manuscript must be thoroughly proofread to ensure that the book is free of any errors in the grammar, spelling, punctuation, typography, and formatting of the book layout. It is the editor’s job to make it fully error free too.

The editor also should use the first round as an opportunity to cautiously read the manuscript from the start to end, and then preparing for the second run of editing after a couple of days. The art of editing is an outstanding assignment from an author or a publisher. An editor is a significant reader and a lover of words, sentences, paragraphs, pages, chapters, and ultimately a book. Editors are used in various projects and for many types of products, such as magazines, newspapers, blogs, stories novels, screen play write and literary journalism are the key areas of expertise; to be made enjoyable by applying every knowledge of literary criticism and theory to help writers shape powerful manuscripts. Good authors often appreciate detailed feedback on the tone, plot structure, and character development. The place of the editor in literary fabrication is an uncertain and often invisible one, requiring close attention to publishing history and archival resources to bring it into focus. In the real art of editing, the critical tendency to overlook the activities of editors and to focus on the solitary author figure neglects significant elements of how literary works are acquired, developed and disseminated. Editors must write clearly and logically. Interpersonal skills: A key skill is to cultivate and maintain good working relationships with authors and publishing staff.

This is important for tactfully guiding the author through the development of their title, as well as working with other staff to produce the book on time. The role of their respective editors, however, is often overlooked. Editing is an unseen art where the very best work goes unobserved and unnoticed often. Editors strive to create books that are enlightening, faultless, and pleasurable to read, all while giving credit to the author. This makes it all the more difficult to truly understand the range of roles they inhabit while preparing a manuscript project from the start of the concept to publish a book of interesting to all types of readers.

Editors are responsible for scrutiny of facts, spelling, grammar, and punctuation. They are also responsible for ensuring that a piece of writing corresponds with in-house style guides and feels polished and refined when done. There are also times when editors need to step in and cut out what do not fit well to the purpose of the story and guide the awareness towards the areas that the readers should focus always.

There is always a big challenge in writing a story or a novel; so that anyone else who reads it sees the same things you do, without having you there to explain it. We need to get everything out of the head onto the page, and realistically make the readers to appreciate and enjoy the inside stuff of the book. A good editor will lend a hand to authors to shape what is on the page so that it guides the reader to see what the author really wants the reader to see. An ideal or an excellent editor will also point out where the author had made silly typo errors or any grave mistakes.

As the author, we are too close to the material. Writing which may seem clear in our own mind could be confusing to the readers. Book editors do a lot more than just read and edit raw manuscripts. They are a key part of the chain of command in publishing and have a lot of influence over which books get published and which ones do not! If you love books and love to read, a job as an editor can be a dream comes true. Be advised that much of a book editor’s time is spent sifting through manuscripts that never will see the light of day. You have to be okay with reading a lot of bad writing in order to find the few rare gems. One of the most important things book editors do is acquire books for publication. Usually, book editors or editorial assistants read manuscripts submitted by writers—some solicited, most unsolicited—and, based on their knowledge of a genre and its potential market, determine which works are a good fit for their publishing house.

Small mistakes in grammar and poorly-worded sections need a second set of eyes to be discovered. Advise the beginner writer to re-read some of their writing after setting it aside for a month or more. Using an editor will speed up this process. Getting feedback from someone else might give you new ideas. Without an editor, it won’t be easy to foresee the errors or mistakes those things are there, or you won't think they need fixing. Editorial responsibilities may vary according to the size of the organization or aptitude of the potential authors as some editors may handle more tasks than others.
The energies and tensions of the editing process emerge as essential factors in the creation of fictions more commonly understood within the paradigm of solitary authorship. The mediating role of the editor is inseparable from the development, form, and reception of these works

An editor will make recommendations as to where the text can be pruned and will pick up on inconsistency in situations or arguments, and fallacies of logic. An editor will point out areas of text that could be rewritten to improve flow and organization of the structure of the book in terms of text formulation and presentation. An editor knows when to restraint the flow of an author who has galloped out of control, especially in indulging in prose that is too ornate or pretentious. The editor is there to bring out the best in any creative books of literature. Writers cannot assist self, but fall in love with their own writing. As we know, love is blind; therefore, an editor is the cool head that is needed to make the tough decisions. Apart from grammatical mistakes, there are more main responsibilities of an editor. An editor can do this because he or she is an impartial and experienced observer of prose. For example, an editor would almost certainly tell the author to rewrite the words in a better way too.. Most writers will benefit from having their work edited, no matter how good a writer they are. Good luck to all beginners who are just entered into the arena of writing literature oriented books and journals..

Well, an editor does the same job of correcting and rectifying of errors only, not the theme nor the concept from the author, except the editor is more thorough and fully devoted to the book; it is he who more professional experience than your friends do; and so on, and so forth. In this sense, an editor is awesome at all times prior to publishing the book.The editor doesn't merely advice - he can make huge decisions about the book. In the immediate sense - the author doesn't need an editor in authority. Pretty much by definition, if the editor can't convince the author to make a certain change, and then forcing the author to make that change can't be in the author's direct benefit assuming that the author has a sincere thought of what's good for an author. The editor's authority comes from the publisher, and that's who he's truly serving: the publisher is the one who needs editors to find new authors, to bring the best out of manuscripts, to assure new novels are salable and appropriate to the line, etc. . The author doesn't need most of that; not directly. The author just needs the system to exist. The author doesn't want an editor to set him in competition with a thousand other MS - but indirectly he does need him to do that, because otherwise nobody publishes anything.

A good editor will care about the work as much as you do, but view it objectively and can therefore pick up on character inconsistencies, plot holes, grammatical errors, structural problems and all kinds of other issues that it's much more difficult to pick up on in your own writing. To summaries further, the author is like a chef and the editor is the one who puts it on the dining table so that it looks the best that it can be for the consumer to the readers. Polishing and improving the writing of a book won’t make it a better book. Most authors don’t want to hear that the main plot points just aren’t interesting. And the story is all that matters. A bad story can be turned into a beautifully written bad book. But a good story, even if the writing is not great, will still be more successful. The editor might make recommendations the author was reluctant to make. Rewriting can be much harder than initial writing, and the whole project can stall leaving the author depressed through a sudden awareness of the flaws and holes and problems in his story.

An editor might suggest substantial changes from a branding or marketing perspective, such as “using this title and subtitle would connect with a much larger pool of readers.” Some authors who have been working on a project for a long time, especially if it’s their first book, found it difficult to switch gears and make big changes to the theme. While most professional, career authors may be able to finish a book and need just one round of editing to catch errors, almost all first-timers would benefit from a more expensive package. But editing is mostly a waste of money, if it isn’t being done in stages, identifying the biggest problems first and rewriting the content before really concentrating on the small stuff – line-by-line editing, rewriting and fixing etc. More importantly, the first book is often where writers realize they’ve written something nobody wants to read. It may be acceptable to certain extend, but they didn’t focus on writing for a wide readership..If the story is good enough, even poor writing and a handful of typos won’t discourage readers from leaving positive reviews. Wishing all budding authors, happy writing at all times. 
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WILLIAMSJI MAVELI