Thank
you for considering my services. Here is a detailed description of terms, my
procedure and fees.
Definition
of terms:
- Revision
addresses large-scale issues like general focus, purpose, content,
audience, plot, pacing and organization. The author makes revisions early
in the writing process while the ideas are still taking shape.
- Editing
addresses smaller-scale issues like word choice, style, tone, sentence
structure and the effectiveness of the document’s transitions. Editing is
the second step of the writing process.
- Proofreading
concerns the appearance of a document and corrects errors in punctuation, spelling, formatting and word usage.
Proofreading is the final step.
Editing/Proofreading
procedure:
Email
your manuscript as a RTF or .doc file and a story outline with character
descriptions, relationships, and any other pertinent information, preferably in
an Excel spreadsheet. I critically read the novel with attention to detail and
list my comments and editing suggestions directly on the source document using
the Highlight Changes feature of MS Word’s Track Changes function.
I
charge $30/hour or a flat fee of $1,000 for a full-length novel. The flat fee
for a novella or a short story is less. All manuscripts include an initial and
then a second, final edit usually done before sending. No matter if your
manuscript is a thousand words or a hundred thousand, rest assured you’ll get
the same professional attention to detail.
If
you prefer I can send the document after the first edit and upon receiving the
approved, revised version, I will do the final edit. If you have a killer
deadline requiring me to reprioritize other works-in-progress, we can discuss
the implications. I will happily edit/proofread three sample pages at no cost
or obligation.
Judy
Stone, editor/proofreader
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