What is a Copy Cleanup?
A Copy Cleanup is an edit focusing on tightening your grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, word choice, and other Mechanical issues (sometimes called Copy editing).
It includes:
A Copy Cleanup is an edit focusing on tightening your grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, word choice, and other Mechanical issues (sometimes called Copy editing).
It includes:
- 2 passes
- inline edits (with some explanation)
- Plus: Basic Style Sheet – word and style choices, lists of characters, and world elements in a format that allows for author to fill in more detail
Who might benefit from a Copy Cleanup?
- an experienced author with a story that is developmentally solid
- an author who's already hired me to do an Alpha or Beta service on their manuscript (i.e. I'm already familiar with their style and the world they've built)
What does that look like?
In the first pass or round of edits, I will focus on conventions and mechanical issues. The author will make corrections and adjustments as they see fit and will send it back for a second pass. During the second pass I will create a Basic Style Sheet and will read through the whole story again to catch mechanical issues we may have missed or which may have been introduced. This is not a proofread.
Mechanical Editing - ensuring correctness of basic conventions such as:
In the first pass or round of edits, I will focus on conventions and mechanical issues. The author will make corrections and adjustments as they see fit and will send it back for a second pass. During the second pass I will create a Basic Style Sheet and will read through the whole story again to catch mechanical issues we may have missed or which may have been introduced. This is not a proofread.
Mechanical Editing - ensuring correctness of basic conventions such as:
- grammar
- spelling
- punctuation
- sentence structure
- syntax
- vocabulary
- symmetry
- other mechanics of style
Contact me today to discuss your project and how I can help.
Check out my Service Packages for better rates if your story is in need of both Substantive and Mechanical edits.
See Fee Calculations page for explanation of how fees are reached. Fees are calculated in US Dollars.
