Developmental Editing for Fiction

If you love reading novels and want to help authors improve their writing beyond the sentence level, you might want to

find out more about becoming a developmental editor.

Developmental editing for fiction is for you if you want to find out more about the knowledge, skills and tasks required to developmental edit fiction. It provides:

• what you need to know in order to offer developmental editing as a service
• an overview of the different methods of developmental editing
• ideas on how to get started
• a comprehensive list of resources to help you identify your next steps in learning more.

It also covers different practical approaches to providing feedback on a manuscript so that you can help an author redraft their book to better reach its potential.