Why does it matter what type of editor I use for my children’s book?
So, you’ve written a children's book and now it’s time to have it edited. Finding the correct editor for your children’s book is crucial when you are writing elementary and middle school age books.
Future Story Ideas
As a writer, it is good to keep a log or a small book that you can write future story ideas in. Something that you can keep handy when you need to start a new book.
Writing Prompts
Writing prompts are great. I particularly like the ones that give you three or so words and you must write a short story or vignette with them.
Proofreading
Our manuscript has been put under a microscope during our line edit, “stylized” during the developmental edit, copy edited for grammar and tense and now it is ready – wait, not yet! What? It’s still not ready for publishing?! Nope, sorry…the final stage of editing is Proofreading.
Editing Basics - Copy Editing
Book editing is not as simple as it sounds. To have a well edited, ready to publish manuscript, there are several types of editing that are necessary and beneficial. In our first two posts we went over Developmental Editing and examined Line Editing . In this post we will talk about Copy Editing.