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Developmental Edit

Developmental editing should be the first type of professional editing that gets done. It involves looking at what makes up your story: the plotline (and any plot holes), story arc, content relevance, characters’ likability and arcs, characters’ goals, motivation, and conflicts, believability, pacing, tension, unresolved threads, world building, and scene setting. Developmental editing involves taking your idea, characters, and plots, and building them into a solid foundation to base your story on.

Your story is your baby, and I want work closely with you to make sure that you get the best version of the story you wanted to tell on paper. Therefore, my developmental editing service includes a 30-minute Zoom session to discuss the edits and your revision plan, so you are happy with the final result.

Note: this service does not include a line edit pass (or a review pass) after you have revised the manuscript.

$0.015/word

Line Edit

A line edit really hones in on the things that could impact the reader experience, beyond the structure and concept of your book. During line edits, I specifically look at content relevance, character and plot consistency, clarity of meaning, language, word choice, and overall readability and flow of your manuscript to make sure that one wordy sentence doesn’t take your reader out the wonderful narrative you’ve crafted.

$0.02/word
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About Me

My name is Kate Marope, and I am a developmental and line editor with eight years’ experience working with traditional and self-published authors, both as a freelancer and as an editor at various publishers →

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