Editing, and various kinds of editing stretches into Writing.

This is just a brief write-up of something that snuck up on me in the dark: editing, for things such as:

Stories, Essays, Websites,Resumes

Business Advertisements, Brochures, Manuals

Letters, Cover letters,Applications

Email, Enewsletters

Articles, Educational materials

English language documents that need improvements

Proofreading finds typos, punctuation errors, misspellings, and formatting inconsistencies.

I normally add some notes.                                                             0.35 Cents/word

Book Edit Proofreading plus more

I normally do at least three passes through your work. In the first pass, I may make a few changes, but I'm mainly attuning to your work and your style, the feel or the voice of the book, your characters and/or message. In the second read-through, I work on typos, punctuation and grammar, problematic passages and flat sections. We might discuss, or I may make suggestions or make notes about rewriting, weak spots, etc. Then I prefer to do something else for day or so. After the break, I go through again, checking, editing, and ensuring overall consistency. 1.25 Cents/word

Deeper editing, and Academic editing is by the hour $25/hour

Minimum $20

People often already have the perfect resume done by a professional. If you email one of those to me, I prefer to edit it with the idea of injecting your personality into it. I will most likely also add bits for any specific job that you are applying for. I dug into some stored materials, from ten years ago, the other day and found eleven resumes for one particular client. If we use docs.google.com, you can watch me work, we can work together, and we can create some variations together.

Yes, you can also send me a basic, needs a lot of work, resume and we can work on it on docs.google.com the same way. Learning by doing, together.

Yes, you need to pay ahead of time, especially for things like editing a novel. If an editor is concerned that a client might not pay if some of the suggestions will result in a lot of rework, then those suggestions might not happen. You are more likely to get what you need, and what you pay for, if you don't keep a big stick at hand for after the job is done.

Please send your file in Microsoft Word, Open Office, or Rich Text format.

Vic Williams process.facilitator@gmail.com 604-657-9595