You’ve written a manuscript and need a professional set of eyes on it, but how do you find an editor? This post includes advice on how to find and vet a freelance editor so you can feel confident in finding the right person to help you take the next step in your journey.

Use the Hero’s Journey to evaluate Act One of your sequel, keeping in mind five principles to craft a compelling series arc. Also, a case study in Uncharted 4.

A walkthrough of the Hero’s Journey in Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception using commentary from Christopher Vogler’s Writer’s Journey and Joseph Campbell’s Hero with a Thousand Faces.

One of the primary rules of telling a story is that the story must move. In this post, we’ll be chatting about two techniques from Shawn Coyne’s work The Story Grid: What Good Editors Know that you can use to get a new perspective on your manuscript and ensure that each scene shows a clear change.

Learn an easy self-editing technique that helps you spot clunky description and fix it by zeroing in on two common culprits: too many adjectives and physical description.

Taking another look at Jedi: Fallen Order from a book editor’s perspective. How can a focus on characters, plot, and theme take this story to the next level?

“Beta reader” is a term that often comes up for writers. But what is a beta reader and what can they do for you? Here, we talk about how to find a good reader, some questions you can ask to determine a good fit, and suggest a few things to consider when you’re thinking about inviting beta readers into your process.

You’ve probably encountered a dozen different terms for types of edits in your search for an editor. Here, we walk through the main categories of edits and provide questions to help you accurately determine what kind of support your book needs.