Developmental Editing for Fiction
Sophie Playle
- 13 december 2023
- 9781915141279
Samenvatting:
CIEP guides provide a short, basic introduction to the various skills and knowledge needed to work as an editorial professional. They are intended for copyeditors and proofreaders, both practising and potential, and will also prove useful to others involved in publishing content, including businesses, organisations, agencies, students and authors.
If you love reading novels and want to help authors improve their writing beyond the sentence level, you might want to find out more about becoming a developmental editor.
Developmental editing for fiction is for you if you want to find out more about the knowledge, skills and tasks required to developmental edit fiction. It provides:
- what you need to know in order to offer developmental editing as a service
- an overview of the different methods of developmental editing
- ideas on how to get started
- a comprehensive list of resources to help you identify your next steps in learning more.
It also covers different practical approaches to providing feedback on a manuscript so that you can help an author redraft their book to better reach its potential.