JNV Editing & Consulting
Full Line & Copyedit
Your manuscript has completed developmental editing, focusing on the big picture rather than the finer details.
Now it’s time for a deeper dive with a line and copyedit to transform your work into a reader-ready version. This process will preserve the integrity of your style and narrative voice while enhancing flow and eliminating distractions.
Who is this for:
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This service is for authors or writers preparing manuscripts and needing improvements in tone, flow, pacing and consistency.
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Businesses and organizations producing reports or contents requiring professional refining.
FEE: in $CDN + GST – Subject to review of sample, and discovery call
FORMAT: Microsoft Word doc
What you can expect:
With your full line and copyedit is a line by line, word by word review, with focus on the following:
Re-writing only what is necessary, and keeping your voice, here is what I’ll look for in your sample line-by-line edit, and how I’ll treat it:
Line Editing
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Clarity: Simplify awkward or complex sentences for smoother reading.
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Word Choice: Replace weak or repetitive words and phrases to avoid redundancies.
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Tone & Style: Align word choices with your desired tone and genre, adjusting formality where needed.
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Flow: Balance sentence structure, smooth transitions between ideas, and highlight overwriting or underdeveloped sections.
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Dialogue: Ensure dialogue feels natural and suits the characters.
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Feedback: Identify unclear motivations, tonal shifts, or inconsistencies.
Copyediting (after Line Editing)
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Accuracy: Correct grammar, spelling, and tense inconsistencies.
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Style Consistency: Adhere to your style guide, including regional spelling (British, American, or Canadian).
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Verification: Fact-check names, dates, numbers, and foreign terms.
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Professionalism: Ensure consistent formatting, capitalization, italics, hyphenation, and terminology use.
You’ll also get:
On completion of the work, I’ll provide an editorial report that details my observations while editing your manuscript, and a style sheet with recorded decisions about hyphenation, numbering, capitalization, spelling variation, punctuation style and idiom usage so that we can bring common-sense consistency to your writing.
