Copy Cleanup:
- 2 passes
- Inline edits (with some explanation)
- Plus: Basic Style Sheet – includes word and style choices, lists of characters, and world elements in a format that allows for author to fill in more detail.
What is it?
The Copy Cleanup is an edit focusing on tightening your grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, word choice and other Mechanical issues (sometimes called Copy editing).
What does that look like?
In the first pass 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:
The Copy Cleanup is an edit focusing on tightening your grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, word choice and other Mechanical issues (sometimes called Copy editing).
What does that look like?
In the first pass 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 to discuss your project and how you can get it into a condition that will communicate clearly.
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.
