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SCREENWRITING:
What’s a logline and why do you have to have one? What are the key elements that make up the perfect logline?
Figure out which of the 7 common plotlines your story falls under so you can let your characters loose to start their journey.
40 Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic books to get you through your self-isolation, quarantine, or lockdown.
Here’s what it looks like when I procrastinate: Some of my favorite songs reimagined as book covers.
You’ve written the last sentence on your first draft (or second or third). Your baby is done. It’s a bestseller waiting to happen. But, is it?
Before you start revisions or seek editing, you need an expert set of eyes that read the way a literary agency or publisher or reader would with invaluable notes along the way to make sure you’re on the right track.
Line–by–Line Editor's Notes
No Page Limit Report
Notes on Hook, Setting and Descriptions, POV, Voice, Narrative, Dialogue, Character Development and Growth, Plot, Pacing, Story Development including Story Arcs, Showing versus Telling, Structure, and Marketability
A developmental edit is the whole enchilada – story-wise. It’s a deep-diving, detailed content edit that provides objective feedback. It looks at everything from words to structure to strengths and weaknesses to story and characters to loose ends.
Are there major changes that need to take place to better tell your story? A different way to go about something? Missing information? Cuts to be made? Additions? Restructuring?
Developmental edits provide invaluable insights to make your manuscript everything it can be before starting major revisions; setting you and your book on the right path.
Line–by–Line Editor's Notes
No Page Limit Report
Notes on Hook, Setting and Descriptions, POV, Voice, Narrative Style and Tone, Dialogue, Character Development and Growth, Plot, Pacing, Story Development including Story Arcs, Showing versus Telling, Consistency, Structure, and Marketability
A copyedit gets into the nitty-gritty of your manuscript to point out and remove anything that hinders or enhance anything that helps your words and story shine. You want the clearest story to give to your readers so they’ll come back for more.
Beyond the typos, bad grammar, and spelling mistakes, it goes page by page to catch run-on sentences, passive versus active, and any issues with phrasing, repetition, and rhythm.
Copyedits also spot any inconsistencies. Does the tone change periodically? Is your character’s name Michael at the beginning and Michah later? Are they removing a scarf twice? Did a sudden passage of time happen?
This will catch anything that will take your reader out of the story.
Line-by-Line Notes and Edits
Typos, Spelling, Grammar, Sentence Structure, Punctuation, and Syntax Errors
Word Choices – Tense, Unnecessary, Repetitive, Rhythm, Connotation, and Modifiers
Phrasing – Awkward, Transitional, Conciseness
Genre-Specific Notes on Story Flow, Continuity, Character Detail, Accuracy, Clarity, Style, Tone, Ideas and Concepts, Consistency, Format, Structure, and Denotes any Confusion
Writers are creative. We pour our hearts out on the page and bring amazing things to life. We want to suck a reader in and keep them there—to hear our story. We also get so engrossed in our own worlds that we overlook things and the fastest way to turn a reader off or take them out of your story is with basic grammar, typos, punctuation, or consistency issues.
If you feel your manuscript is at it's peak, this is the last thing you should do before self-publishing or querying publishers and agents.
Typos, Spelling, Grammar, Structure, Punctuation, and Syntax Errors
Line-by-Line Notes and Edits
Notes on Accuracy and Consistency and Denotes any Confusion
SCREENWRITING:
How to use the best screenplays as a writing guide. Download your favorites to use as a resource tool.