Editing Your Book, Part V—Copy Editing: the 5 foot view

by Sarah Sally Hamer @SarahSallyHamer

There are four basic types of editing:

• Developmental Editing
• Substantive Editing
• Line Editing
• Copy Editing

Each type of editing offers an opportunity to look at a manuscript from a different place, and for different reasons. Today, we work with Copy Editing (CE).

Editing Your Book, Part IV—Line Editing, the 500 Foot View

Learn the process of editing your book.

by Sarah Sally Hamer @SarahSallyHamer

There are four basic types of editing:

Developmental Editing

Substantive Editing

Line Editing

Copy Editing

Each type of editing offers an opportunity to look at a manuscript from a different place. Today, we work with Line Editing (LE).

LE is where, finally, you make it pretty.

Editing Your Book, Part III—Substantive Editing: the 10,000 foot view

Each type of editing looks at something different.

by Sarah Sally Hamer @SarahSallyHamer

As I mentioned in the Part I of this blog, there are four basic types of editing:

Developmental Editing

Substantive Editing

Line Editing

Copy Editing

Each type of editing offers an opportunity to look at a manuscript from a different place. Today, we work with Substantive Editing (SE).