Sentences with phrase «do as your developmental editor»

Things I will NOT do as your developmental editor: Copy editing, line editing, grammar fixes, proofreading, etc..

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As the developmental editor, I didn't think writing another 200 pages to resolve all the loose ends was the best solution, so I suggested flashing forward to a short epilogue about the baby's first birthday.

Does he act as a developmental editor, line editor, or copyeditor?

The most important thing to remember is that quoting for developmental editing is very complicated, and it is therefore best to have a firm idea of what you want me to do as your editor.

If they edit a sample of my work, that doesn't help me to judge their work as a developmental editor.

In a post on editing, author Ruth Harris concentrates on nine benefits primarily of «developmental» editing, as we say in the States, or «structural» editing, as it's called in the UK — the specialization of editors who work with how you're telling your story and, if necessary, how to reconstruct what you're doing to make it far more effective.

I'm often asked about my role as a developmental editor — what I do, why it matters, and if this service includes other forms of editing such as proofreading and line editing, or even substantive editing.

As a freelance developmental editor, I found myself doing a * head slap * over Naomi's emphasis on pulling out this stage of editing from the rest.

I will not work as a developmental editor on anything that I do not feel can be improved to this level.

I'm an editor as well, but if any of my clients need developmental editing (something I don't do), I'm sending them to you.

The developmental editor is your sounding board, on hand to tell you if all the wonderful, creative, passionate, important stuff you want to communicate is coming through as you intend — and when it isn't, to help you figure out why not and what you can do about it.

They skimp a bit on editing by either getting a not as experienced editor or by only doing certain editing like developmental editing and then opting to skip proofreading editing and just doing it themselves.

that a developmental editor, with whom I am considering working, does not (as one spiritual teacher describes it) have God - allergies, i.e., is open to spirituality?

I hope you'll explain what developmental editors do, as well — how they often start with an author before a word is written, how they support, challenge, and sometimes suggest characters, stories ideas, structure; and how they also line - edit and even suggest new language for character development, dialogue, and other aspects of the literary style.

As for rates, I don't know what others do, but I'm a developmental editor who asks to see the manuscript first and then, having read it, provides an estimate of the cost.

Developmental editors are not ordinarily ghostwriters, but they can and should be able to put the right words together as an example of what they want the author to do.

(Full disclosure, I do provide developmental editing services, but this is not a pitch for business... these are opinions I've come to after years of working in publishing, both as a writer and an editor.)

The developmental editor doesn't fix those issues for you (and if you're looking for someone who will, what you really want is a ghost writer — I do that as well).

I don't personally specialize in any genre when working as a free - lance developmental editor, but instead always ask to see the work - in - progress, whether it be an outline or draft manuscript, and see if I can be useful.