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Editing your Romance Novel
Developmental Editing
Your developmental edit includes a detailed edit of your manuscript focusing on the entire plot (as well as subplots), characters and their arc (development over the story from the first page to the last), checking for flow, style, voice and the overall structure of your story. It is an intensive edit that will result in feedback in the form of marginal comments, questions, and suggestions, along with a full editorial letter to help guide you during your next round of revisions.
We recommend a line edit to follow after you have implemented your developmental edits.
Developmental Editing ~ 0.015 per word.
Line Editing
The process of refining your story to make it shine. Line editing is more art
than science but takes any piece of writing and breathes dimension and life
into it! Your line edit includes, syntax, word choice, cliches, conciseness and clarity, tense, tone and voice, show versus tell, fixing repetitions, point of view, filler and filter words. Your manuscript will return to you with tracked changes, an editorial letter and a style sheet.
We recommend a copy edit to follow after you have implemented your line edits.
Line Editing ~ 0.013 per word.
Copy Editing
The process of revising your story to improve quality and readability,
as well as ensuring that a text is free of errors in grammar, style and accuracy
Copyediting is done in accordance with the style manual and dictionary of your
chosen version of English. For example, if you are in the United States it
would be the Chicago Manual of Style and the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
It also includes basic fact checking. Your copy edit includes punctuation, grammar, word usage, spelling, clarity, style consistency, basic fact-checking, capitalisation and hyphenation. When your copy edit is done, your will receive your marked-up manuscript, a version of the marked-up manuscript with all changes accepted, your style sheet, and any feedback regarding the story or writing that your copy editor feels would benefit.
We recommend proofreading to follow after you have implemented your copy edits.
Copy Editing ~ 0.007 per word.
Proofreading
Proofreading is the final step in the editing process. A proofread consists of checking for punctuation errors, grammatical issues, and minor formatting problems. It is the final sweep of the document and includes spelling, grammar, syntax, punctuation, capitalisation, usage errors, consistency errors and contextual errors. Once your manuscript is proofread, you will receive a marked-up manuscript, and a version of the mark-up manuscript with all changes accepted.