Beginning Line Editing for Fiction (On Demand)

Description

$400 (Members: $360) | How to become a developmental editor | 4 lessons | With Instructor Feedback | Beginner

On-demand course schedule must be arranged with the instructor as soon as possible after enrollment.

This class introduces you to the main concepts of line editing, which is sentence-level editing intended to help polish an author’s prose.

Line editing is in very high demand among indie authors, so it’s an excellent skill to learn.

But be warned: This is not big-picture editing, although it can be used to help solve some big-picture problems like info-dumping. We’ll be looking at how even the tiniest tweak of wording can change the impact of a sentence.

This is a class about exploring how the use of effective, evocative language can support storytelling; it is not a class about where the commas go. (That’s Beginning Copyediting for Fiction.)

We’ll talk about:

• the differences between copyediting and line editing
• how to help an author polish their prose without taking over their voice
• how different genres require different approaches
• how to combine line editing with other services, such as copyediting and developmental editing to provide more value to your clients.
• and more!

You’ll get plenty of practice in line editing during the weekly assignments.

The class is entirely online and asynchronous (you don’t have to be in any particular place at any particular time to participate) but your final materials will be due on a deadline agreed to with the instructor.