SUMMARY:
What’s included in the Developmental Editing Services: It’s a 5-10 page manuscript assessment that consists of a full and thorough read of your completed manuscript, including specific suggestions about the writing (ie. in what best storytelling top, story, character arcs, strong subplots, the audience to consider and genre appeal (if applicable), and overall ideas for improvement. This service works best for fiction and non-fiction novels.
This is NOT typical edit that involves grammar and spelling nor a line edit that is designed to tighten up an already finished draft — a Manuscript Evaluation Assessment is designed to lead you in the right direction when working on your next draft, using craft expertise and chapter by chapter analysis to help you map out what your project to be the strongest it’s ever been.
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Price quotes are dependent on the word length of the manuscript at the time of the project request. The price quote will then be listed on a sliding scale.
FOR EXAMPLE:
Say, for example, that the length of your first novel draft is over 100K words and is in my specialized field of writing — fantasy fiction — I’d quote the pricing at this rate:
Developmental Editing Services for a Fantasy Fiction Novel at 100k words: $600 – $1000. I’d expect a 50% deposit upfront. Completion of the project would take 1 month upon receiving the project down payment and will be updated weekly via email.
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MORE INFORMATION:
The pricing is on a sliding scale so you may choose whatever option is most affordable to you and your own needs. However, If you opt to pay $600 or higher, I’d be able to provide you with: track changes annotations on your draft document along with a page full of recommended resources such as books, videos, podcasts, important research materials, where to find sensitive readers, etc — essentially whatever you need to strengthen your writing long after the manuscript evaluation is finished.
Please let me know if you have any questions or specific accommodations you’d like for me to keep in mind as we complete this project.
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Developmental Editing Service Details
PT. 1 – READER AND ANALYSIS REPORTS
• CHAPTER BY CHAPTER SUMMARY: Where I summarize the strength and weaknesses of each chapter and devise a plan with the client to make the narrative structure of the novel even stronger on the next draft.
• TRACK CHANGES MANUSCRIPT COMMENTS: Where I annotate certain passages as I read them; commenting and suggesting improvement. (*)
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PT. 2 – COMPLETE STORY REPORT
• OVERVIEW: An overall look at the state of the manuscript and any recurring issues that have come out in the text overall.
• PLOT: Suggestions on plot structure, comments on plot events, and anything else that’ll make the story stronger in the manuscript overall.
• STRUCTURE + CRAFT: Similar to plot structure, anything that would overall create stronger narrative structure in the manuscripts, as well as suggestions of any literary techniques that can be used to make the story flow better and the character arcs come out in interesting ways.
• CHARACTERS: Comments on how to improve the characters featured, how to show character development in interesting ways, as well as suggesting character-building techniques that would show character growth (or decay) in the most interesting ways.
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• BONUS LINKS AND RESOURCES: A page full of recommended resources such as books, videos, podcasts, important research materials, where to find sensitive readers, etc — essentially whatever you need to strengthen your writing long after the manuscript evaluation is finished. Formatted to the client’s specifications. (*)
(*) OPTIONAL –*AT A PAYMENT OF $600 OR HIGHER