Sentences with phrase «developmental editing skills»

I've traded my developmental editing skills for developmental edits and copyedits on some of my stories.

Not exact matches

To me, critique partners are developmental editors — some have more experience than others, but when I'm swapping critiques with someone, we are (usually) doing an in - kind swap for developmental editing (sometimes it's more of a line edit or copyedit, depending on need or skill of the person involved).

She loves finding that «diamond in the rough» in the slush pile, and she is particularly skilled in the developmental editing part of the process.

She is a detailed line / content editor who is also skilled at solving the big - picture problems of a book (developmental editing), and is especially talented at editing fiction.

Developmental editing is a skill that involves helping an author shape a project from conception.

There are rare exceptions but the editor - in - chief of a major traditional publisher told me recently that his staff has no time or skill to do developmental editing.

She developed many of her developmental and substantive editing skills as a Composition instructor and writing - center tutor while completing her M.A. in English at the University of Missouri - Columbia in 2004.

These people are heavily promoting moving beyond having a friend read your manuscript to hiring trained, experienced editors for both developmental and copy editing, finding skilled people to provide quality covers, etc..

While developmental editing is about the story and characters and copy editing is about grammar rules and sentence - level issues, line editing skills are all about our writing — as a whole: