Because your art comes from *you*. If you try to make it come from someone else, it will inevitably be awful. This is also why continuing or finishing another creative’s work rarely works out well. Art and the artist are symbiotic.
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True, but I have editors that have done wondrous things to my work. Not continuing, but bringing it to the next level. Some have a true gift. And I’ve co-written things with a few people. Very cool experiences.
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Editing a finished work isn’t the same thing at all. The magic is already there. It’s already woven in. All an editor does is… make it extra sparkly. Co-creation is different, too. Two artists working to build something together, alongside each other – that’s nothing like picking up…
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… an otherwise dead thing and trying to give it a soul.
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We did pick up, though. At least that’s how it felt to us. Typically, my co-writer would do a first fast “vomit draft” and I went from there. We used to call ourselves two halves of the same brain. Quite rare, I suppose!
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