#Line Editing

[bl-mitchum]

I think I’m scared of momentum. I’ll get into a groove with writing to editing, feel like I’m running ahead of schedule, and scramble to slam the breaks like I can and should slow down. Like, woah Nelly, this junction’s going too quick, hold up!

[quillver]

Me opening my draft:

1% writing

99% rereading one sentence like it deserves better than me

[amoebaforce]

COMMISSION UPDATES!

Goodbye confusing price tiers! From now on, all potential editing & beta reading projects will be booked via a simple, personal email consultation.

Slots start at only $1, and 100% of the money you pay for a consultation goes toward your final fee. Plus, each service has a standard per-word rate attached, no matter the length of your manuscript!

I am currently accepting ALL genres of fiction manuscripts at any stage, from first draft WIP to completed manuscript.

There are only five slots open per category (beta reading, line editing, developmental editing), so don't wait! Book your consultation now!

[illusionremember]

I don't know who needs to hear this but if you're working on line editing or copy editing a piece of your writing, and you're on your 10,000th pass and the sentences are all glossed over and you feel like you're missing all the things that need fixed? That's your brain hitting fast forward because you know what comes next and it's trying to skim.

Here's what you can do about it:

Stop reading from the beginning. Go to the end of your piece. Read the last sentence. Then the sentence before that. Work your way backwards, one sentence at a time.

Doing this helps trick your brain into looking at the sentence, by itself, for itself. You'll catch so many more errors and weird phrasing that's not working.

[trixierosewrites]

Editing Services

(This is a revamp of my earlier post to be a little clearer.)

Hi! I'm a really cheap editor (see here to see standard editing prices, but it's roughly a third of the lowest price) to hopefully be accessible to more people who are in need of editing and can't afford higher prices. I do both line editing and copy editing by default for these prices, but for a little extra I can also do developmental editing.

Pricing:

Line and copyediting: £5/1000 words (or £0.005 per word); half standard price for dialogue only

Developmental editing: +£3 to the original price total (i.e., not per thousand words, but just added to the whole thing)

£5 is roughly 6.60 USD, 5.80 euros, 9.15 CAD, and 10.30 AUD.

Payment options:

DO THIS STEP FIRST: contact me at twritingcomms@gmail.com to discuss terms.

Paypal: I will invoice you; you can either pay full price upfront or half at the beginning, and half midway through. (Editing work will not be completed until the full price has been paid; it will not be started until 50% of the cost has been received.)

Ko-fi: You can either use the donate or the commissions button; for convenience, I've kept my writing commissions and my editing work under the same purchase area. (You can still pay half and half this way as well as full price.)

Stripe: I will invoice you; you can either pay full price upfront or half at the beginning, and half midway through. (Editing work will not be completed until the full price has been paid; it will not be started until 50% of the cost has been received.)

Service details:

Line editing: Literal line-by-line editing, looking at flow, consistency, tone, voice, etc. This is about editing and improving the prose itself.

Copy editing: Meticulous grammar focused editing. This includes things like the subjunctive, tenses, and SPaG. (This is not proofreading; I will not be looking at your formatting.)

Developmental editing: This focuses on the "big things", so to speak. Plot, structure, character development, et cetera. When providing services that include developmental editing, I will do this first, before line and copyediting.

How my editing service works: you provide me with a link to your work, and I'll do a run through, providing comments and feedback. We can discuss this, and I'll repeat this after your amendments up to five times (developmental editing runs are not included in the five).

Pricing examples and terms & conditions under the cut.

Pricing examples:

1000 words, line and copy editing: £5.

1000 words, developmental, line, and copy editing: £8.

10000 words, line and copy editing: £50.

10000 words, developmental, line, and copy editing: £53.

50000 words, line and copy editing: £250.

50000 words, developmental, line, and copy editing: £253.

80000 words, line and copy editing: £400.

80000 words, developmental, line, and copy editing: £403.

26350 words, line and copy editing: £131.50.

26350 words, developmental, line, and copy editing: £134.50.

Pricing continues in the same manner, for any number of words.

Terms & conditions:

I reserve the right to decline any request to use my services.

Work will not be started until at least 50% of the payment has been received.

Work will not be completed until the full payment has been received.

Do not send payment before I agree to work with you.

You agree that you are eighteen years of age or over.

You agree to me keeping a private record of the transaction and the discussion.

Requesting services via Tumblr will not be accepted; please direct yourself to my email address, twritingcomms@gmail.com.

Services will be completed in the order in which I've been paid; if there is a queue, you will be informed before payment and when we begin working. While editing your work, I will focus solely on it.

[projecttreehouse]

Limited offer -- free editing!

Hey, Nat here! I have been working to set up an Upwork profile to hopefully attract more freelance clients.

Breaking into a new freelance site is... not the easiest endeavor in the world. If you don't have testimonials and reviews, people pass you over. It's understandable, but still frustrating!

To help me break in, I have a special offer that will hopefully be mutually beneficial.

I will edit up to 10k of work, any genre, for free!

OR

I will provide story mapping support, any genre, for free!

This can be fanfiction (probably needs to be a fandom I'm familiar with just to... you know... make it actually possible for me to provide feedback), or original fiction of any genre, at any skill level, at any stage of the writing/editing process. We will start with a brief emailed or DM'd consultation to go over your goals, your perceived strengths, and your frustrations. Then, I will read your work and provide actionable editing notes, or if it's a story mapping situation, we will have a back and forth conversation about your characters, your plot, etc to help set you up for success as you begin writing your novel.

It will have to be through Upwork, meaning the job will have to be "paid". Upwork's minimum is $5. I do have to charge this, BUT there are two ways we can go about it: the $5 can be a down payment toward a bigger editing project and go toward your total fee for that, OR I can refund it to you via venmo. You'd have to share the last 4 digits of your phone number with me if you want a venmo refund.

I will edit for up to 5 writers and story map for up to 20! Email me at nat.ries.editing@gmail.com and we can go from there. I am working with one writer, so I have 4 spots left for editing up to 10k.

NOTE: my Upwork name is Natalie Tucker because this is my legal name. My Gmail name is Natalie Ries because this is what I go by. It is what it is. They're both me. Getting married and taking your husband's last name is a whole thing. Someday it'll all be Natalie Ries but unfortunately Natalie Tucker still lingers.

Click here to view my testimonials from past clients and a sample of my editing notes.

[writingbycatsgrave]

CALLING ALL WRITERS!

I'm a freelance editor looking to edit your stories, fan fictions, poems, resumes, essays–anything! I provide proofreading, line editing, structural editing, copy editing, and revision and suggestion services all in several convenient bundles!

I'm an experienced editor having freelanced for almost a year now and served as Editor-in-Chief of the publication West 10th. I've edited poetry, prose, novels, fan fiction, scientific writing, resumes, and more. Please reach out via email if you'd like to see samples of my work.

RATE

(Each bundle includes one consultation) Under 1k words – $25 with a 3 day turnaround 1k-5k words – $50 with a 5 day turnaround 5k-10k words – $100 with up to 2 weeks turnaround Additional words exceeding 10k – $0.20/word Additional consultations – $10/ea Faster turnaround – $10/ea day

[b-a-pigeon]

My freelance editing website is up!! I'm still tweaking it, but it should be navigable and coherent by now, at least.

Author friends, check it out! I'm offering copy editing, line editing, proofreading, sensitivity reading, and beta reading services. I want to prioritize accessibility & affordability, so I'm experimenting with sliding scales and payment plans.

Get in touch if you have any questions (or feedback on the website) or want to request a free sample edit. I hope I can work with some of you soon!! 🖤

[left-to-write-edits]

Not to be weird

[amaiguri]

Writing Zalathiel's Character Voice

So, the Seeress wanted me to question the depths of my loyalty and to imagine devotion motivated the surmontation of these artificial obstacles. I would not dance on that puppet string; my loyalty could not be bound with parlor tricks — though perhaps hers could.

-- Zalathiel

I love writing Zalathiel because his prose is soooo overwrought on purpose -- he is young and still feels like he has to prove how smart he is by using big words. And this means, he uses words like "surmontation" that don't actually exist :P

But this also means Zalathiel is where I get to stretch all my fancy new vocab from sources like @a-word-a-day-for-writers (thank you for your service🫡🫡🫡) like "acatharsy" which is an Oxford English Dictionary word (that possibly is one of those mountweazels cuz I can't find it in others) and I love it:

At the ointment’s touch, the little black creatures oozed forth and melted in the water. I scraped the acatharsy in oily streaks down her arms until her skin at was a mere sickly gray — a marked improvement over the abyssal black.

Many of the other character voices come to me naturally. Zalathiel's voice HAS to be crafted. And you know what? I love that for him 🥰

<Literally, my notes>

Words to include: accismus, acatharsy, eccendentesiat, unctuous, discommode, sublimate

[bl-mitchum]

Thoughts of a line editor: for the love of God, use the tab button to start a paragraph and use ctrl + enter to start a new page. PLEASE. This manuscript is making me delete 5 space bars at every. Single. Paragraph.

[quillver]

Micro-tip: The problem isn’t the word — it’s the rhythm.

[amoebaforce]

Since the world is full of nonsense and everyone is pushing to support queer creatives, now would be an amazing time to send a tip or commission an editing project from this here queer.

Any contribution would help me pay the bills or maybe even save for my wedding ❤️

https://ko-fi.com/elizamares

[msrheyrhey]

*Edited*Do any writers in here need an Editor?!

If you can help a starting editor pay some of their bills before going red, I offer 3 types of editing services!

I offer Developmental editing when you've just finished a story and want someone to guide you to parts of your story that are inconsistent or off.

Then I offer Line editing when you're story is fine but you want someone to go through and check on the spelling and sentences.

And lastly, I can do beta readings. When you just want to know what readers will think of your story before you go public.

I have a good system to have all my thoughts written down about your writing or stories if you don't have specific things you want thoughts or advice on.

My ko-fi commission page is below. You would be doing me a real solid if you checked it out or reblogged to spread it.

[owlbearwrites]

What proofreading / copy editing / line editing looks like (when I do it)

Disclaimer: you may have different idea of what each of the three entails. But in my editing services, this is what you can expect from each tier.

Below is a snippet of my own writing (with errors introduced for the sake of this experiment), subjected to proofreading, copy editing, and line editing, respectively. This way, you can decide what level of involvement your manuscript needs.

Original:

Proofreading:

As you can see, I fixed punctuation, grammar and formatting errors, pointed out an erroneous word choice, and flagged a possible continuity error. Beyond that, the text remains untouched. If you don't want any (and I mean ANY) interference with your writing style, this one's for you.

Copy editing:

This time around, in addition to the proofreading pass, I tightened a few sentences, suggested a more evocative word choice, and pointed out where the scene's flow could be made clearer. If you're looking for a light-touch edit, that's the one.

Line editing:

This is the most involved level of editing I offer. In addition to everything in the previous tiers, I flagged a detail that didn't 100% make sense to me and could benefit from a brief explanation; made suggestions on tightening the prose further; and included several style suggestions to give a high-stakes moment more emotional punch. If you want me to really sink my teeth into your manuscript, and shine every diamond that's still in the rough, then the line edit option is for you.