Developmental editing is all about sculpting your story and ideas. It comes after you have completed your first draft, and it always starts with a manuscript evaluation. More details below!
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Manuscript evaluation
This is a report on big-picture issues across the manuscript.
For fiction manuscripts, it includes feedback on:
- plot/story
- audience
- pacing
- narrative viewpoint (POV)
- character arcs
- audience
- setting and worldbuilding
For ethnography and other non-fiction texts, it deals with:
- content
- problems
- structure, cohesion, and organisation
- arguments, premises, and theoretical frameworks
- mid-level concepts
- audiences and readership
- timeline and pacing