Editorial Assessment
With an Editorial Assessment, your editor will read your manuscript from a
macro, birds-eyeperspective. They will look at things such as:
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Concept and Premise.
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Point of view (POV).
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Inciting incident.
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Genre and whether you are hitting the tropes.
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Structure—there's a huge difference between story and plot.
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Your hero and the hero’s journey.
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Characterisation.
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Show don’t tell.
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Protagonist vs Antagonist.
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Arcs—story and character.
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Narrative—flow and keeping it active.
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If your editor feels the parts of the novel need to be reordered to make your story shine, theywill recommend this to you. Your editor will then compile a report detailing everything theythink needs to be fixed/amended/restructured etc., and then you, the author, make thechanges.
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Overuse of adverbs, cliches, etc.
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Dialogue—realistic and reflective of each character.
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Minutiae and mundane detail—should not be in your novel.
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Repetition.
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Tense—correct usage and consistency.
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Worldbuilding.
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Beginning and End of your novel.
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Chapters and Scenes.
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Issue and inconsistencies.
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Anything else that jumps out.