EDITING

Line Editing ($0.022/word)

Sentences carry bloat and confusion when they are drafted, and if they aren’t carefully considered the problem usually remains. Line editing reduces confusion, removes contradicting ideas from the text (like Bob changing his eyes’ color from one paragraph to the next), and it ensures that your message will be understood, while also fixing any grammatical, punctuation and spelling mistakes.

Developmental Editing ($31/hour)

The process of refining or generating ideas, expanding upon them, making sure they are consistent and fleshing the story or idea up. This includes scripts for movies, videos, articles; characters, worldbuilding and story plots.

Without this things can end up making no sense. Plot holes will occur and your idea will end up being generic and cliché.

Copy Editing ($0.018/w)

Grammar, spelling and general readability of the text is what copy editing entails. It shouldn’t be confused with Line Editing, as here it’s all about fleshing out any mistakes, yet not considering issues of bloat or contradicting ideas.

Proofreading ($0.012/w)

Even if Copy Editing is meant to remove all errors, Proofreading is essentially the last step to fleshing out a manuscript or article. Little typos or grammatical slips can hide themselves in plain sight, which is why Proofreading is the backup of any perfection. It’s also good work-ethic after line editing or copy editing, a manuscript or article, to wait an X-amount of time before finalizing with proofreading.

Formatting ($0.75/page)

Depending on how you want to publish your work, formatting takes the role of preparing it all for the desired delivery. This takes into account creating an Index for all your pages and their headers, your main page for Title, author and copyright, the style of your paragraphs in regards to indentation, spacing and page layout. It can be a gruesome process if you don’t have the right software or experience.

When publishing to Amazon, you’ll be required a .pdf and a Kindle e-book variant which has to be separately formatted with Amazon’s software. When uploading there usually are errors in how things look, so there’s quite some back and forth.

So Formatting is the last step before publishing to your readers, whether on a blog, on Amazon, to a prospective job or anywhere else.

WRITING

Poetry ($1.25 a line. Each extra stanza increases the price with $0.25 per line)

Poetry is the lifeblood of expression, written paintings and prose. With so little it can create so much, and the results always differ from person to person, but the general idea just easily slides across when done right.

You can add poetry to anything: an article, a book, a social post, an ad campaign… The opportunities are limitless.

Creative Extract ($0.021/w)

Make any post, any description, any advertisement rich and colorful to push your message across with ease and afterthought.

Use: SEO, social media, YouTube descriptions, advertisements

Size: 50-500 words

Re-Writing ($0.018/w)

When something needs to be re-written in a different way or as to fix a calamity of issues.

Non-Fiction ($0.048/w)

This extends to articles, papers and anything that is not fictitious in nature.

Use: SEO, social media, YouTube descriptions, advertisements

Character Development

Characters are the lifeblood of a story, whether the protagonist who is the centerpiece or the antagonists who drive the tension and resolutions to the uncertain outcomes.

Major character ($20)

Minor Character ($5)

Fiction

Planning the exact amount of words your story would be is next to impossible, but planning ahead is mandatory for a believable plot.

These are the expected sizes of what your story can be. They’re industry sizes, but that shouldn’t mean you can’t go above and beyond.

Short Story: 2 000-7 000 words ($0.032/w)

Novelette: 7 000-15 000 words ($0.036/w)

Novella: 10 000-40 000 words ($0.044/w)

Novel: 80 000-100 000 words ($0.062/w)

FAQ

Ghost Writing?

When something is written for a client, it can be done so anonymously (ghost writing), which makes it seem like the client wrote everything themselves. This can be applied to any service, for an extra cost. But it doesn’t differ from what you’d usually get, as it only excludes crediting the original author (in this case Inlet).

What about editing with the writing service?

Every writing service includes full-on editing.