Naturally, hiring a professional costs money, which may stretch your budget but if you want to have a qualitative book in the end, it might be more reasonable to invest the money. Because if the cover does not live up to the quality you promise, you will sell less books and your other investments will go to waste.
Julia Fellner
Storyteller, Authorpreneur & Consultant
Tag: editor
Considering that you are going to trust an editor with your story, which you have worked on for so long, you want to make the right choice.
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A professional editor is very likely going to be the biggest expense, therefore you want to make the right choice when and who you let edit your work.
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In this stage you sure the grammar, punctuation and syntax is correct. Since you are not an official copyeditor (and even if you are, you should have another professional editor look over your manuscript), this is probably more like what you would call proofreading.
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In this second step of self-editing you look at a smaller scale, directly at the language level. The questions below are only a beginning. Depending on your story, there might also be other issues you should pay special attention to.
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In the first step of self-editing you focus on story and characters, mostly ignoring the language because you need to keep in mind you might have to rewrite certain passages anyway.
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This article breaks down the separate steps in the editing process. They may differ slightly between writers, since different writers have different ways of editing their work. Therefore, I focused rather on what has to be edited than how in the outline below.
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In a traditional publishing company you would probably have two editors working with you. The first would give you feedback on what they expect you to change. In the second step they’d look at the manuscript on a closer level, taking care of issues like unclear sentences and getting rid of redundancies. Once the absolute perfect draft in this aspect is finished, it goes to the second editor: a copyeditor who edits on a micro level, correcting grammar, punctuation and syntax.
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