5 Things to Look Out for in Professional Editing Services
If you are a professional editing services provider then you know the drill of revising the structure, looking for a plot flow, improvising characters, checking grammar and spelling, proofreading and who can forget the most important thing, line editing.
Line editing makes your sentences the best they can be. This process revolves around specific factors which includes removing unnecessary words, making sure the word usage is correct and that the writing flows as seamlessly as possible. Besides line editing, professional editing as a whole could be a very tricky business, but if you dedicate yourself to it and master it as a trade craft to pursue professional editing services then keep in mind the following
1) Make sure your sentences don’t seem ambiguous
Whenever you feel like you are done with your piece of writing, read your work from the POV of a potential reader. This might require putting aside your work for an adequate amount of time. Look out for clunky wordings, wrong tenses and misused metaphors.
2) Syntax should be easy to follow for a Layman
When you are writing something that is meant to be published for a wide variety of audience, always keep in mind not everyone is educated enough to understand difficult terminologies and a complex plot line. Choose your words wisely, keeping them as simple as possible but amazingly creative at the same time.
3) Remove any words that you think is killing the essence of your writing
One of the sole aims of a good editor should be to think about the composition of words used in a sentence and making sure that those words are the best possible ones. For this purpose, the common practice is to try changing the overall construction of the sentence.
4) Try Keeping it as captivating as possible
People tend to read things which they are interested in, or things which makes them take interest. Making someone take interest is only possible when the plot line, sentence structure and usage of word’s composition are all in harmony together, revolving around the main focus and topic of that particular piece of writing, which could be a book, a letter, or even a product description.
5) Keep increasing your vocabulary to convey the central idea as compactly as possible
I wouldn’t lie to you, I have read books and publications which literally had no central idea at all, even if there was one, I was unable to find or deduce it. Why did this happen? Obviously because of poor editing and wrong choice of words. Some writers and editors think that using difficult words would give a message to the reader that this publication is written by some competent individual and they would give it more importance, which according to me is the most absurd perception. Logically speaking, when you write something that you know is meant to be read by all kinds of people, your sole aim should be that everyone takes away the idea or the message as conveniently as possible. No reader likes to keep a thesaurus every time while reading a book that has used terminologies which were last used when the dinosaurs were alive. Laughter.