FOR SALE:

One-Of-A-Kind
Editorial Knowledge Base

After more than thirty-five years as a professional editor, I’m retiring and offering use of my most valuable business asset for acquisition.

This proprietary editorial knowledge base represents more than 35 years of experience as a professional manuscript editor. It contains 400 professionally written editorial analyses, explanations, observations, and comments developed through decades of working directly with authors and manuscripts.

What distinguishes the collection is not simply the number of entries, but the unique perspective and explanatory approach behind them. Throughout my career, clients have consistently praised my ability to identify problems in a manuscript and explain them in a way that is both insightful and easy for authors to understand. Rather than relying on technical terminology alone, many of the explanations use clear, memorable analogies with movies in particular and practical examples that help writers immediately understand why something isn’t working and how it can be improved.

The database captures that approach in a reusable form. It allows an editor to draw upon professionally developed explanations rather than having to formulate a new explanation from scratch every time a familiar editorial issue arises.

The collection covers a broad range of recurring manuscript issues, including word usage, grammar and mechanics, style, point of view, characterization, dialogue, structure, pacing, narrative technique, and other aspects of effective storytelling and writing.

The resource can provide an established editor or editing company with several advantages:

  • Save substantial time when preparing manuscript evaluations
  • Provide clear, polished explanations of recurring writing problems
  • Give authors more understandable and educational feedback
  • Help editors maintain consistency across projects
  • Provide less-experienced editors with proven ways of explaining difficult concepts
  • Improve the depth and perceived value of editorial reports
  • Help generate repeat business through satisfied clientele
  • Reduce the need to repeatedly formulate explanations for common problems

This database is not intended to replace an editor’s judgment or voice; an editor must still be able to identify manuscript issues. This professional knowledge resource provides editors a foundation they can adapt to the needs of each manuscript and client.

In effect, the purchaser is acquiring not merely a collection of editorial comments, but a portion of the accumulated knowledge and explanatory methodology developed through more than three decades of hands-on manuscript editing.

If you’re a new editor this database can also be an invaluable educational resource to catch you up to speed on issues of which you may not even be aware,

HERE ARE EXAMPLES:

POV


BACK STORY

AS WELL AS THE SMALL STUFF:

Here’s how easily it works. You click “Insert a File” into your document, and the Word file index pops up like this:

Then you double click a specific file to insert, such as “Characters Too Many” and you get this:


This database is available for as little as $1,995, depending on the size of your business.

For questions or to initiate a purchase, contact me at:

mike@manuscriptcritique.com

 

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