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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.

  •  Point of view (POV).

  •  Inciting incident.

  •  Genre and whether you are hitting the tropes.

  •  Structure—there's a huge difference between story and plot.

  •  Your hero and the hero’s journey.

  •  Characterisation.

  •  Show don’t tell.

  •  Protagonist vs Antagonist.

  •  Arcs—story and character.

  •  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.

  •  Overuse of adverbs, cliches, etc.

  •  Dialogue—realistic and reflective of each character.

  •  Minutiae and mundane detail—should not be in your novel.

  •  Repetition.

  •  Tense—correct usage and consistency.

  •  Worldbuilding.

  •  Beginning and End of your novel.

  •  Chapters and Scenes.

  •  Issue and inconsistencies.

  •  Anything else that jumps out.

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