2006-02-17

SERVICES AND RATES

I offer two levels of service.

1) Holistic manuscript coaching

One writer I work with calls my approach “architectural,” because I focus on shoring up the internal logic of the pieces I read. I pride myself on picking out my writer’s intentions, and amplifying those intentions with my comments, not subsuming them with my own aesthetic interests or tastes.

As I read your manuscript—essay, article, novel, or screenplay—I will mark it up liberally on the page. Then I’ll return it to you, along with a detailed letter describing my suggestions for reworking your project. How does the academic argument stack up? How does your story rise organically out of character belief and action? How can we make every line of your screenplay resonate with meaning while hewing to strict economies of format and form?

I do minimal line-edits in when I read holistically—at this level of service, I am more likely to point out that a sentence or paragraph needs reworking or clarification then to actually rework or clarify it for you.

Rate: $2.50 per page.

2) Line editing

In addition to holistic coaching, I will line edit your work carefully should we both agree your project needs sharpening at the sentence level. Line editing services include copy editing, proofreading, and extensive stylistic attention.

Rate: $2.50 per page (in addition to holistic coaching charges).