Editorial Evaluations
Ever wished you had “a real editor” at your fingertips? Someone with the expertise to see what’s going on with your work and give you the tools to improve it? But you don’t have an agent or a publisher and you’re worried that nobody’s going to take your 1,000 word story seriously?
Don’t worry. We’ve got you covered.
What’s an Editorial Evaluation?
Depending on what shape your story or essay is in, an evaluation can take one of several forms (and in fact it’s usually a blend of two of them). Send us your story or essay (or chapter in an ongoing work, if it’s the appropriate length), and an editor will send you back an email with any developmental commentary either in the body of the email or in the document itself, whichever is more appropriate to the nature of the edits your work needs, as well as any line or copy edits they think are necessary.
Developmental or Structural edit
This kind of edit involves organization, major plot or thesis points, and (as the name suggests) the overall structure of the story or essay. A developmental edit will focus on plot holes, character consistency, and what factors might be standing between your story and a compelling read. This review doesn’t spend a lot of time on the niceties of grammar or language because the developmental editor will generally be returning the work to the author for a complete restructuring and a lot of rewriting. The one exception is that if the writer has a significant repeating grammatical error like missing articles or verb tense agreement, but even then this style of edit is more in-depth commentary than “track changes.”
Line or Stylistic edit
What most people think of when they think of editing. Your line editor is the person who will murder your darlings for you. By the time a piece is ready for line edits, most structural issues should have been addressed. At this point, grammar is cleaned up, style is smoothed out, and sentence and paragraph structure is revised for clarity. Writing is tightened up and unnecessary digressions are deleted. Quite a few editorial reviews could be described as “mostly line edits, with some developmental notes.”
Copy edit
Sentence by sentence and word by word analysis of a piece, working for consistency and clarity. This edit usually involves a style guide (does one character never speak in contractions? which names are italicised? which titles are used for alien nobility?).
Who are the editors?
Your work will be reviewed by YeahWrite staff—all professional editors and writers with years of experience between them. Our staff has expertise in fiction (both literary and genre fiction), creative nonfiction and personal essays, and poetry.
Read all about them on our YeahWrite staff page!
Let’s do it!
Mechanics
Purchase the editorial evaluation through Ko-fi by clicking the below button, then email your file to YeahWrite, and we’ll send your evaluation. It’s as simple as that!
Pricing is incremental. Each (approximately) 1,000 words counts as “one evaluation” – we won’t charge you extra for a 1,005 word story, but if you want to send 1,200 words, that’s two evaluations.
If your work merits a content warning, please include one so that we can make sure to assign an editor who is capable and comfortable working with that material.
If there’s an editor you’d prefer to work with, please let us know in your email and we’ll try to fit it into their schedule!
Accepted file formats are Microsoft Word (.doc/.docx), Rich Text Files (.rtf), and text documents (.txt).
Pricing
- $40 for each evaluation, in increments of roughly 1,000 words.
- Payment is accepted via Ko-fi by clicking the button below.
Questions?
Please email any questions to editors@yeahwrite.me. We look forward to hearing from you!