Creative Manuscript Commentary and Editing

Make your novel, memoir, short story or screenplay the masterwork you want it to be. Your manuscript will be read carefully for ultimate reader response, each beat commented upon, advice given, revision suggestions detailed with creative examples, deconstructed, reconstructed and ready for final drafting.

Your editor's lifetime of professional experience as a writer, writing professor and freelancer will be poured into your manuscript, with suggestions and corrections running the gamut from teaching Aristotelian writing rules and Monomyth structure to finding your voice and style, building believable characters and crafting plots and scenes designed to enrapture your readers.

Manuscript Commentary and Editing Includes:

- Beat-by-Beat Running Commentary, complete with sample solutions, examples, suggested approaches, devil's advocacy and concept questions

- Concept and Plot Development

- Character Development

- Style, Tone and Personal Voice Analysis

- Structure and Story Lay-Out Advice

- Line Editing for grammar, punctuation, clarity, concision and ACTIVE WRITING

Basic Rate: $9 a page.

Exceptional Additional Services:

Holistic Review Write-Up considering every aspect of the manuscript together with suggestions on approaching the re-write and the application of techniques specific to your piece ($50)

Creative Consultation Session after you've reviewed your freshly annotated manuscript ($100/hr.)

(Exact pricing subject to agreed upon delivery window and manuscript length. Prices based on industry standard page formatting of 12 point Times New Roman font, double-spacing, and 1 inch margins, representing an average of 250 words per page.)

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