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Originally Posted by j. d. worthington  There wouldn't be the support networking that can keep ideas in ferment (critiques, suggestions for story ideas or ways to take an already developing tale, just good, old-fashioned moral support for those times when energy flags, etc.) |
This is why we joined writers groups, and it worked very well. Better than online critiques by passing strangers, if the group was sufficiently committed and had a good mix of writers at different levels of experience. (Also, you could submit a whole story or a substantial portion of your novel to the group, and a few weeks later get thoughtful and thorough critiques, rather than stringing it out in tiny bits to be judged out of context.)
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And it would take much longer for manuscripts to reach their destination, be proofed, get their corrections made, etc., etc., etc.... all the steps toward going from a first draft to finished product would take much longer and be much more frustrating.
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Actually, it was only a very few years ago that many large publishers stopped doing it that way. I don't see books being produced that much quicker now -- the biggest delay is how many different hands something has to pass through, and of course some of those different hands are already involved in something else. As for the frustration level, anyone who means to work in publishing had better learn to live with frustration.
I agree that the demise of the internet would be a very bad thing in other ways, but not signficantly so for writers.
(And we might spend more of our time on actually writing instead of these chats at gawd-awful hours of the night and early morning.)