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Professional editing and constructive critique for your OUTLINE, WORK IN PROGRESS, SYNOPSIS, or QUERY LETTER.

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More sources

On the road to publication, these sources can guide you around rough draft potholes while avoiding the detours of Writers’ Block.

Editing and critique

Here to help
throughout
your Author’s Journey

Their value

Alpha Readers provide a fresh perspective, away from the long, lonely task of writing a novel.

Their positive feedback will bring attention to what is working. Less often, they may ask about a plot hole, or a character that behaves inconsistenly. Any specific feedback will help you refine your work.

Where to find them

  • Family
  • Close friends
  • Writers’ groups

There’s seldom a charge for Alpha Reading. If your reader is also a writer, a common courtesy is to read and share as much feedback as you receive.

Second Eyes critique services

Their value

A Beta Reader may suggest how agents, publishers, and the public might receive your novel. That provides just one additional perspective. If you have selected a well-informed, objective person, any reported plot, pacing, or character development issues will help you refine your work-in-progress.

Where to find them

Critique and editing services

Their value

Ongoing feedback from a Writing Coach can add depth to characters, shape their story arcs, and weave character stories into a page-turning plot.

Coaches can be motivators and demolishers of writer’s block as they help you develop your voice, style, and technique.

Where to find them

Online coaching for writers

Their value

In the 20th century, proofreaders were hired to check manuscripts for grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors. Today, word-processing software does that!

21st-century must outshine robotic tools. If you have that software, first use it, then a skilled proofreader can correct any remaining details and formatting issues.

Proofreading options

Proofreading and critique

Their value

A Developmental Editor can help you add depth to the plot and breathe life into your characters. To make this collaboration worthwhile, first have a tidied-up complete draft or a detailed outline. Given that, a qualified developmental editor will provide well-reasoned, specific recommendations. Given those, weave all that fits the fabric of your novel, bringing it one step closer to exceptional work.

Where to find them

Developmental editors

Their value

As your novel nears completion — after you’ve reveled in positive reader feedback — it may be time to consult a Line Editor. Somewhere in those pages, words and phrases may be overused. Pacing may have lagged. A line editor’s detailed edit of the sentence structure and word choice can bring the reader deeper into the pages with greater emotion.

Where to find them

Line editing

Risks and rewards

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can support, not replace, human storytelling.

Under your guidance, AI identifies grammar issues, untangles misplaced clauses, and explores locations across this planet and beyond. It sparks fresh ideas, which you, the author, transform into story arcs and plot twists.

Creativity and originality are formed from human experience. With that at the heart of your writing, generated content will never overtake the distinct voice you bring each work.

Popular A.I. tools for writers

A.I. offers a helping hand — or three!
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