SO … YOU’VE WRITTEN A BOOK!
There it is. Your blood, sweat, and—likely!—tears poured onto every page. Perhaps it’s your first draft. Perhaps it’s your tenth. Perhaps it’s taken you a year. Perhaps it’s taken you a decade.
Now what?
As you’ve probably heard, the best thing to do is to put the manuscript away for a few weeks or even months so you can return to the work with a fresh set of eyes and an objective perspective. Once you’ve done that, it’s time to get some feedback. You might try to share it with friends or family—and you might be surprised to learn that, promises and good intentions aside, they’re not as willing or as helpful as you’d hoped.
Many writers turn to a developmental editor to get the objective critical feedback they need to take their book to the next level. A developmental editor works with you on the content and structure of the book—focusing on narrative arc and plot, voice and language, point of view, pacing, dialogue, characterization, and the world of the story.