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Content Development (or Book Coaching)

Work to launch or develop a new manuscript—if you are in the early stages of development and get stuck, we can offer techniques to get you to the next stage. We work with writers of fiction and nonfiction.

Content Editing on Completed Manuscripts

• General Feedback—for completed first drafts, we can give you an honest assessment of what is working and what is not working. 

• Developmental Editing—for nonfiction, this involves checking the content for factual errors, contradictions, and inconsistencies. For fiction, content editing checks for discrepancies in the plot, characterizations, or dialogue, and whether the theme has been developed properly, or whether the subplots have been well integrated into the story line. In other words, content editing evaluates the content in detail.

• Line Editing—addresses creative content, writing style, and language use, and focuses on the way you use language to communicate your story to the reader. For example, do you paint pictures for the reader with your language? Is your word choice precise, or is the content peppered with stale language and clichés? 

• Copyediting—involves checking a manuscript for spelling, capitalization, punctuation, verb tense, and other grammatical issues. It also involves checking for continuity, sentence structure, paragraph lengths, word choices, missed words, and the like.