I guess I never had that. In my entire life, I have never had an editor work with me. My work was just accepted by publications (print) and published as it. That happened from day one, when I was about 10 years old.

I had no input from English teachers. Then, again, I was in the South African school system in the 50s and 60s, and you were in an entirely different school system at a different time. Creative writing wasn't even recognized as a topic. It was a sort of top-down system. You wrote an essay. The grammar was corrected. That was it.

I was so frustrated that, one day, I wanted to see wtf was wrong with my writing, as I had already been in print for about 5 years at that time. So I copied the first paragraph of something in print from our school library (I was at boarding school), and wrote the rest of my story. The teacher corrected the first paragraph and left the rest of the story untouched.

At college in San Diego, I had an idiot for a professor of a creative writing class (I was 56 years old). I emailed her and asked her to tell me the difference between British punctuation and American punctuation. She took one of my pieces and inserted commas into everything. She had no bloody idea. Then, again, for someone who had an MA in British literature, she didn't know what a casket was either.

I googled you and I couldn't see anything you had written, so I'm not sure which editors helped you Generally when someone has written a lot, their work comes up immediately.

I suppose, if one is trying to open a publication on the web and one doesn't want to pay for it, what you say makes sense.

Other than that, in my experience, I've never had an editor work with me.