Full Line & Copy Edit

You've crafted a compelling story with a solid structure. Now, it's time to enhance readability, ensuring your readers stay engaged and immersed in your prose.

Our line and copyedit service provides a meticulous, invisible touch that preserves your unique style and narrative voice while ensuring smooth, distraction-free writing.

PRICE: $8.00 per 1000 words

FORMAT: Microsoft Word doc

What You Get

Thorough line-by-line edit

We will meticulously edit your novel line by line, focusing on clarity and flow. Key areas of attention include:

• Chapter sequencing

• Character-trait consistency

• Avoiding clichés and awkward metaphors

• Authentic dialogue expression: ensuring phrasing and word choice match the character's voice, mood, and intention

• Effectiveness of sentence-level narration, assessing word choice, repetition, and overwriting, especially in action and suspense scenes

• Enhancing suspense and thrill points

• Layout guidance

• Proper spacing for letters, words, lines, and paragraphs

• Addressing problematic representation, stereotyping, and othering

• Ensuring sentence pace, rhythm, and flow reflect the scene's setting and mood

• Correcting speech tagging and punctuation

• Spelling, grammar, syntax, punctuation, hyphenation, and capitalization

• Standard document formatting using Word’s styles palette: indentation, paragraph style, section breaks

• Balancing told versus shown prose

• Consistent tense usage

• Effective verb use to create tension and suspense

• Editorial report and style sheet

• My extensive report will detail observations made during the edit, highlighting strengths and areas for improvement. The accompanying style sheet will document decisions about hyphenation, numbering, capitalization, spelling variations, punctuation style, and idiom usage, ensuring common-sense consistency throughout your manuscript.