My process with clients
1. Equip you with the best tools and knowledge
- Provide clear, actionable feedback
- List your writing strengths and weaknesses
- Mark any reader sensitivity issues
- Show you practical editing techniques and storytelling principles you can apply to future projects
2. Empower you to be a confident writer
- Provide guided steps toward self-editing
- Help you find and refine your author voice
- Guide you from imposter syndrome to an author mindset
- Share other helpful writing resources for you to learn from
- Direct you to know how to implement final edits
3. Encourage you toward your publishing plan
- Pray for and with you
- Supply compassionate, constructive feedback
- Point out where your writing and story shine
- Track your progress
- Celebrate your writing milestones and editing victories
My editing and critiquing style
1. Pull out the weeds of unnecessary words.
- Condense less important scenes
- Combine similar scenes
- Cultivate more important scenes
2. Prune the fruit of the story and tend to the soil of the plot.
- Abide in character POV / narrative voice to remain on theme and on message
- Reorganize the flow of sentences/paragraphs
- Transplant “telling” into “showing” and “passive voice” into “active voice”
- Rearrange where scenes and chapters cut off
3. Plant the seeds of narrative essentials.
- Water character arcs to produce the fruit of growth, progress, and change
- Tend the seeds of missing info, dialogue, and details
- Fill in plot holes with the blooms from the seedlings of set-up and foreshadowed ideas
