What is Line Editing and Why Does Your Manuscript need it?
This is the nitty-gritty part, the line-by-line, paragraph-by-paragraph evaluation, that cleans the text and eliminates embarrassing lapses.
I offer suggestions and house-cleaning operations (read: fix paragraphs and sentences) that help you transform good intentions, which you included in that SFD, into good writing. (If you’re in doubt about what an SFD is, and you’re seriously into writing your current draft, I suggest you click on Contact Me and get in touch.)
In some cases the editing enables a potentially great writer to reach deep into character and meaning, write furiously but without discipline, and follow through on bursts of inspiration without worrying about the niceties. Editing offers the luxury of finishing a wild ride through the manuscript in whatever form you need to get it finished and then cleaning it up later.
That kind of writer relies on an editor to clean up the draft – the paragraphs, the sentences, and the grammar – and free up the writer’s genius to go on with the work.