Technical Terms
Developmental Editing
This means an editor providing detailed feedback on every aspect of your manuscript. Character. Dialogue. Description. Grammar. The works. And not just the nuts and bolts of your writing but the 'big-picture' issues as well. Basically, I look at every element of your story and tell you what works and what doesn’t. Unlike many editing services, however, I try to give more than just a critique. I'm more interested in helping you build up than tear down. So, I will suggest other plot avenues, alternative ideas and lots of practical advice for improving your manuscript.
Copy Editing/Line Editing
This is going over the manuscript with a fine-tooth comb to bring the writing up to a more professional level. Improving clarity, coherency, consistency, correctness and every other thing that begins with C. Fixing spelling, grammar, word usage, repetition, shifts in tense, anomalies and all those little errors that annoy publishers and readers alike. In short, it's streamlining your work to make it smooth as a baby's bum. That was a terrible cliche. A line edit would suggest removing it.
Proof Reading
Generally the last stage in completing any manuscript. Spotting all the tiny mistakes and errors that annoy a reader. Oops. You forgot a full stop there.
Fact Checking
Green Light includes this as part of the service. Self-explanatory, really. Abraham Lincoln did not use a mobile phone.
This means an editor providing detailed feedback on every aspect of your manuscript. Character. Dialogue. Description. Grammar. The works. And not just the nuts and bolts of your writing but the 'big-picture' issues as well. Basically, I look at every element of your story and tell you what works and what doesn’t. Unlike many editing services, however, I try to give more than just a critique. I'm more interested in helping you build up than tear down. So, I will suggest other plot avenues, alternative ideas and lots of practical advice for improving your manuscript.
Copy Editing/Line Editing
This is going over the manuscript with a fine-tooth comb to bring the writing up to a more professional level. Improving clarity, coherency, consistency, correctness and every other thing that begins with C. Fixing spelling, grammar, word usage, repetition, shifts in tense, anomalies and all those little errors that annoy publishers and readers alike. In short, it's streamlining your work to make it smooth as a baby's bum. That was a terrible cliche. A line edit would suggest removing it.
Proof Reading
Generally the last stage in completing any manuscript. Spotting all the tiny mistakes and errors that annoy a reader. Oops. You forgot a full stop there.
Fact Checking
Green Light includes this as part of the service. Self-explanatory, really. Abraham Lincoln did not use a mobile phone.