{"id":51,"date":"2016-04-28T21:03:26","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T21:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/denisemcinerney.com\/wp16\/?page_id=51"},"modified":"2016-04-29T14:54:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T14:54:17","slug":"services","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/denisemcinerney.com\/wp16\/index.php\/services\/","title":{"rendered":"Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-51\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-51-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-51-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-51-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><u>Copyediting\/Line Editing<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">My fiction editing style combines aspects of both copyediting and line editing.\u00a0 I will make sure your manuscript follows the rules of grammar and punctuation, and I\u2019ll also check for clarity, readability and consistency in your prose. My goal is to improve the flow and overall quality of your writing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Grammar<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Punctuation, including unnecessary or missing commas<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Spelling<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Capitalization and numbers<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hyphen use<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Parallel construction<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Misplaced or dangling modifiers<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Weak transitions, awkward phrasing, rhythm<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Passive vs active sentences<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Misused words (affect vs effect)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Verbosity (unnecessary words)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Continuity errors (hero has green eyes on page one and blue eyes on page 50)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Word choice, repetition, flow, clich\u00e9s<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Awkward description of action<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Showing vs telling<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Since I\u2019m unable to \u201cnot notice\u201d other issues when I\u2019m copyediting, I may also make occasional comments on certain substantive elements I feel should be addressed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><u>Proofreading<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Final-pass editing for the manuscript that is ready for publishing. No big changes.\u00a0 Good for previously published authors who need an extra set of eyes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Typos, misspellings<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Missing words<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Double double<\/em> words--often introduced in making previous edits, like <em>\u201cthe the\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">End-of-line breaks<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Line, sentence and paragraph spacing issues<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Overlooked grammar\/punctuation errors.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Copyediting\/Line Editing\u00a0My fiction editing style combines aspects of both copyediting and line editing.\u00a0 I will make sure your manuscript follows the rules of grammar and punctuation, and I\u2019ll also check for clarity, readability and consistency in your prose. My goal is to improve the flow and overall quality of your writing.\u00a0GrammarPunctuation, including unnecessary or missing <a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/denisemcinerney.com\/wp16\/index.php\/services\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-51","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/denisemcinerney.com\/wp16\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/denisemcinerney.com\/wp16\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/denisemcinerney.com\/wp16\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/denisemcinerney.com\/wp16\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/denisemcinerney.com\/wp16\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/denisemcinerney.com\/wp16\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"http:\/\/denisemcinerney.com\/wp16\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/denisemcinerney.com\/wp16\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}