Enhance Your Work with Developmental Editing.

Developmental editing is a critical phase in editing designed to elevate an author's work. That's because it focuses on the overall content of an author’s manuscript. When undertaking a developmental editing project, an editor is not just looking for spelling mistakes and misused words, she/he is looking to see whether your overall content makes sense the way that it is structured. In other words, a developmental editor looks at the whole picture.

​The Process: Developmental editing is the most detailed, comprehensive, and thoughtful editing package offered by Amma Edits, LLC. During a developmental edit, your manuscript will be deconstructed and reconstructed in the most critical of cases, but, in general, your editor will offer ideas on how to further develop your plot, using detailed plot hole notes. Full chapters might be moved or deleted, paragraphs will be rewritten, moved, or deleted entirely. Characters (fictional) might be tamed, given a makeover, or killed altogether, and your dialogue or narrative will be either refined or given some personality.

Once a manuscript has been through the developmental editing stage, the next phase is line editing, followed by copyediting and then proofreading.

Developmental editing checks for:

Story organization

Plot holes

Character development

Pacing

Dialogue discrepancies... and more

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