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Our short story DEVELOPMENTAL EDITING procedure entails:

Making a great short story title and beginning to hook your readers in.
Strengthening character introductions to focus your readers’ attention on what's important.
Flagging up too much descriptions which may detract from the coherency and quality of your short story.
Fact checking general aspects like distances, geography, landmarks, place names, dates, seasons, etc.
Identifying incomplete and incoherent arguments in your short story.
Properly adjusting the pace and tone of your short story.
Suggesting opposite topic development for your short story.
Highlighting passive and boring passages in your short story.
Suggesting organizational changes to the content of your short story.
Ensuring consistency in styling and formatting of your short story.
Revising dialogue in your short story to make it more naturalistic and authentic.
Ensuring your short story is more of showing than telling but maintaining the balance.
Creating personalized editor notes and providing you with a summary of the overall work that has been done on your short story.

Our short story COPYEDITING procedure entails:

Constructing short and punchier sentences in your entire short story.
Avoiding cliché phrases in your short story to maintain originality.
Minimizing use of adverbs to strengthen prose of your short story.
Fixing sentence fragments and run-on sentences in your short story.
Avoiding crutch words to maintain balance and flow in your short story.
Removing unnecessary repetitions that make your short story monotonous.
Fixing redundant expressions, doublespeak and ambiguity in your short story.
Appropriate words reduction to maintain the right number of words for your short story.

Our short story PROOFREADING procedure entails:

Correcting misspellings and grammatical mistakes in your short story.
Scanning for subject-verb agreement mistakes in your short story.
Checking for punctuation errors in the content of your short story.
Reviewing italicization of words and phrases inside your short story.
Reviewing abbreviation of phrases and words in your short story.
Consistent English spellings i.e. UK, US, Australian or Canadian across your short story.
Reviewing capitalization of headings and words within sentences of your short story.
Scanning for inappropriately used homophones and words like their, there and they’re in your short story.

Our final short story QUALITY CHECK helps answer the following questions:

Does your overall short story have the required number of words?
Are your short story’s characters imaginative and developed fully?
Are all chapter headings of your short story formatted the same?
Are any short story pages or headings omitted?
Is the page numbering of your short story consistent?
Are the short story headers and footers formatted the same?
Are italics in your short story consistently used?
Are paragraph indents in your short story formatted the same?
Are dates & times in your short story consistently formatted? I.e. (am, a.m. AM).
Is the spacing between ellipses in your short story consistent? I.e. (… and not . . .).
Does the short story’s content have any structural or organizational problems?
Have you missed any essential elements or underdeveloped any short story topics or scenes?
Are there any double or triple spaces between words or after a period in your short story?
Does your short story use too much interior monologue and exposition at the expense of dialogue and action?
Does your short story have the proper amount of suspense, believability, tension, conflict and action?
Are there other things that you as the author can do to improve your short story’s content?