This process is definitely taking me for a ride. I have been shopping for editors of late, as well as learning how to spot the agents and editors that are merely rip off artists. It’s scary stuff, trying to decide who you are going to trust with your months of creative labor. It’s kind of like handing over your baby to a complete and total stranger, not knowing how well they are going to care for it… if it will be the same baby, or even if it will still be alive when you come back.
I did find a Canadian editor that I think I am going to have do a sample edit. She seems, (from what I can tell over the internet) to have a genuine desire to dig deep into what the author is trying to portray, and edit the manuscript without inflicting too much of her own writing style on it. So I will send her a couple chapters, get a quote, and go from there. Oh, the edit also includes a critique, which I think will be extremely helpful when I start my final re-write..jpg)
The other loop this process has thrown me through is that I have begun applying for writing jobs. Freelance article work, agency copywriter work, and some are just blog and SEO jobs. So now I am starting to look at this whole writing thing as more than just creating a novel. HA! I said, “Just creating a novel.” Like it is not a huge undertaking in itself!
By Cadence Strange
©Justin Hilbert 2012
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