Editing Services

Creating a road map to strengthen your plot and character arcs, themes, and the major beats of your story.

What you'll get from a developmental edit:

• Story beats identified to improve emotional payoff of highs and lows

• Outlined individual character arcs to ensure adequate page time for each

• Checking that plot events flow naturally with clear cause-and-effect

• Highlighted story/character themes, and whether they feed a cohesive narrative

• Guidance on enhancing existing themes or changing the story to fit a desired theme

• Feedback and guidance on writing strengths and weaknesses (etc. dialogue) and how to improve

• Multiple one-on-one sessions to strategize how to fix these issues in your next draft

When is developmental editing helpful?

Developmental editing is most helpful in the early stages of your book's development. It'll help you figure out which parts of the story are strengthening the overall narrative and which parts are weighing it down.

After a developmental edit, you'll have a better idea of which romantic scenes are coming too early or too late; how to add your fantasy world politics into the narrative to decrease info-dumping; when to increase or decrease page time for side characters; and whether a big reveal near the end could have added more tension earlier in the story.

Developmental editing will add clarity to your world-building, characters, plot progression, themes, and the overall story you're trying to tell.

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Strengthening your storytelling voice line-by-line for clarity and genre-appropriate words and flow.

What you'll get from a line edit:

• Sentences fixed to communicate information clearly

• Changes/suggestions of vocabulary to fit the tone, genre, or mood

• Re-structuring of paragraphs for flow/clarity of information or enhancing tone/emotional impact

• Help with dialogue (to make characters sound natural and distinct)

• Fixes on over-repeated words and phrases

• Occasional minor changes to spelling, grammar, and punctuation

When is line editing helpful?

Line editing is most helpful after you've written your final draft and are confident that this is the version of the story you want to polish for pitching, submitting, or publishing.

After a line edit, you'll have a story where the paragraphs and sentences flow together naturally. Words and phrases will match the vibes of each scene and the book's genre. Overly wordy sentences will be trimmed down or re-ordered for clarity and a comfortable reader experience.

Line editing hones the voice of the story, not only ensuring your reader feels the emotions in each scene but can also understand what's actually happening.

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