Written analysis

How's the organization and structure of your book?

Every manuscript can benefit from a written analysis; however, we will rely on your evaluation of whether your book needs structural and organizational assistance.

This service is a “hands-off,” high-level read. We will not make any changes to your manuscript; instead, we will give specific examples and offer suggestions for improvement.

This service will include any or all of the following tasks:

• We will read the manuscript once.

• Preliminary formatting will be done, including assigning styles to headings and subheadings and autogenerating a Table of Contents, which will help us analyze the structure of your book in an outline form.

•  We will identify weak spots, areas that need strengthening, and parts that appear to be missing.

• We will assess whether the sequence of events and character development are effective. If a timeline or a character list will help sort out dates and multiple character names, we will include these items.

• We will discuss the use of tenses and/or flashbacks and indicate whether their use is consistent and/or confusing.

We will submit an estimate for additional written analyses, if required. 

After we discuss what structural and/or organizational issues you want us to make for you as a result of the written analysis, we will proceed to the developmental editing stage.

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