How much do I pay for editing? How much would you pay?

[Old Hack]

Originally Posted by Pyekett

writingallthetime, are you looking to set yourself up as an editor for self-publishing authors by asking members of a writer's forum what they would expect to make the choice between competitors and how much they would be willing to pay?

Having reread this thread, it certainly seems that way to me, Pyekett: well spotted.

Originally Posted by writingallthetime

I am looking at it from both sides, as an editor and as an author.
Thanks!

Writingallthetime, judging by your comments here you are nowhere near ready to start work as an editor. Please don't come back with a comment that "this is only a forum post, I write more carefully for publication,"; good editors have an inbuilt respect and instinct for writing and wouldn't leave a slapdash comment here if they were paid to.

By all means work on your skills: but please don't start taking money from writers just yet. It wouldn't be fair.

Of course, if I've got this all wrong I apologise.