That's a beautifully disapproving kitty glare you have in your icon.
And I would have liked to use this icon on my comment (which is just above msagara's). You can't, at the same time, complain about unprofessional writers who feel the rules don't apply to them because They Are Speshul, and demand that writers ought to deliver perfection - the only ones that will tend to be the ones whose critical skills are lacking.
Of course you want work polished to a writer's best ability. But that's a process, not a product: the writer who submits mediocre work might have spent just as much - if not more - time and energy producing it, and it might honestly be the best they can do at the time. Chances are that with increased learning the product will get better... but that's not even the same as 'more saleable/more attractive to an agent.'
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Date: 2009-07-21 12:00 am (UTC)And I would have liked to use this icon on my comment (which is just above
Of course you want work polished to a writer's best ability. But that's a process, not a product: the writer who submits mediocre work might have spent just as much - if not more - time and energy producing it, and it might honestly be the best they can do at the time. Chances are that with increased learning the product will get better... but that's not even the same as 'more saleable/more attractive to an agent.'