I provide line editing and proofreading services. Indie authors and clients from any country are welcome. A written work should go through at least three types of editing before publication, and they should be done by at least three different people: It needs content editing to help you organize your material in the most interesting and understandable way and catch any passages or plot elements that are confusing, redundant or boring. After that, it needs line editing to polish the grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc. And just when it seems like the piece must be perfect, it needs proofreading to catch the errors that somehow stayed in there anyway. A good professional standard for proofreading is to keep checking until you have read through the whole piece once without finding a single error. Services Line Editing: The final draft must be completed and the content editing done. Attempts at line editing of earlier drafts will only waste your money, so it's in your be...
Fiction books. Common issues here are point of view, verb tense, spatial continuity and characterization. Nonfiction books. In true stories, spatial continuity and characterization tend to take care of themselves, but point of view and verb tense still need attention. Clarity can be a special challenge as authors attempt to describe complex real-world events and situations. Children’s books. These require a careful balance of keeping the language appropriate to grade level without talking down to or boring the reader. Screenplays. Formatting is key to a successful script, along with remembering that every word must describe a sight or sound that can be captured in the final film. Academic papers. My favorite project of this type was a Master’s thesis in a technical field. The text frequently reverted to the student’s native Turkish, which I did not speak. Since online translators were not yet available at the time, I used a dictionary and learned some Turkish grammar. Website ...