I have this thing (and I know I'm not alone) where I think most of the things I write are boring and poorly written. Either I'm too used to my own style and am unable to parse actual quality out of it or I really am just that bad. I feel it's fairly hampering to my writing ability, considering most of what I do end up writing doesn't get read by anyone but me. I try to improve my writing but it can be hard to tell exactly what it is that I'm doing wrong.
An idea just struck me and, while I know that it would be hard to pull off, I would love some kind of place where professional editors would read submitted work and show what changes they would make to the original piece. This would be an extremely useful tool to help teach aspiring writers what it is exactly that they need to work on. The sheer manpower it would take to read any and all submisions, plus make edits, would be mind-boggling and is probably impossible. Still, it's a neat idea that I thought had enough merit to share.
Oh, and I mostly mean for gaming-related writing. Editing for stories or something longer would be out of the question entirely instead of just improbable.
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