Developmental editing is all about sculpting your story and ideas. More details below!
If you are interested in this service, please contact me to arrange a free consultation.
Fiction manuscript evaluation
This is a report on big-picture issues across the manuscript. It will cover:
- Problems with your manuscript
- Things you do well
- Audience
- Point of view
- Plot
- Pacing
- Characters
- Character arcs
- Setting/worldbuilding
- Culture and representation
- Messaging/subtexts
- Sentence-level issues
The report will also include a possible revision plan, links to relevant resources, and next steps
For novels and short stories, I offer two services: a basic evaluation, and a detailed evaluation.
The basic evaluation includes one read through of your manuscript, a report (editorial letter) of eight to ten pages on the issues listed above, and an hour of online coaching or support via Zoom.
The detailed evaluation includes two read throughs, a more detailed report of twelve to fifteen pages on the issues listed above, comments on your manuscript, a content summary, and an hour of online coaching or support via Zoom.
Ethnography manuscript evaluation
For ethnography manuscripts, the report will cover:
- Problems with your manuscript
- Things you do well
- Audience
- Ideas and content
- Structure, cohesion, and organisation
- Arguments
- Theoretical frameworks
- Mid-level concepts
- Timeline and pacing
- Culture and representation
- Storytelling
- Messaging
- Sentence-level issues
For ethnography, I offer detailed manuscript evaluations. These include two read throughs of the entire manuscript, a detailed report of twelve to fifteen pages on the issues described above, comments on your manuscript, a content summary, and an hour of online coaching or support via Zoom.