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Q&A Is it okay to have my family edit my book?

Your family may be biased, and they may be too kind, but the deeper problem is that they will be interested in your story because you wrote it and they are interested in you. Thus they are in no po...

posted 7y ago by Mark Baker‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#4: Attribution notice removed by user avatar System‭ · 2020-01-03T20:41:55Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/30041
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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T06:58:13Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/30041
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T06:58:13Z (almost 5 years ago)
Your family may be biased, and they may be too kind, but the deeper problem is that they will be interested in your story because you wrote it and they are interested in you. Thus they are in no position to judge whether or not it will be of interest to anybody else. You need the opinion of a reader who will read your story for its own sake and judge it on its merits, not on what it reveals about you.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2017-09-02T03:25:15Z (about 7 years ago)
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