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CHAPTER 2
Editing Services
Manuscript Review ($30 per hour)
A manuscript review is a critical reading of your manuscript to identify areas that may need improvement. For instance, we tell you if your manuscript needs more conflict, dialogue, or narrative. We’ll tell you if there are disconnects or inconsistencies, confusing passages, or too much telling rather than showing. We then offer suggestions to help fix problems. Rather than edit the manuscript page-by-page, we provide a written report on areas that should be enhanced or reworked.
Copyediting ($35 per hour)
We may change words and sentences if they are awkward or incorrect. In addition, we look at paragraph and sentence structure, and we may move sentences around to help the reader more easily follow the text
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We look for problems with organization, coherence, redundancy, word usage, style, syntax, consistency, run-on sentences and fragments.
Content Editing ($45 per hour)
This level of service is a complete edit. In addition to a manuscript review and copyedit, we make a comprehensive assessment of the overall intent and feel of the manuscript.
A content edit of fiction includes looking for improvements in imagery, setting, foreshadowing, context, point of view, proportion, characterization, dialogue, tone, and plot.
In nonfiction we look for clarity, continuity, tone, structure, organization, and layout.
In both instances we may rewrite segments as suggestions to improve readability and presentation.
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