Writing & Editing Service

WRITING

Poetry

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.

Creative Extract

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

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

Non-Fiction – extends to articles, papers and anything that is not fictitious in nature

• Use: SEO, social media, YouTube descriptions, advertisements

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
• Novelette: 7 000-15 000 words
• Novella: 10 000-40 000 words
• Novel: 80 000-100 000 words

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
• Minor Character

When fleshing out a character it’s vital they are given a unique voice. This requires the use of specific words that have a history to their upbringing and life, which is their education, their physical disabilities in terms of speech, breathing, health conditions. It includes emotions and how they change the speech pattern, the words, the reaction.

All that mean that such has to be tracked all the time when interactions are happening between the many characters, as we don’t want to just have other characters within a story that just sound like they were placed there, and that they all sound the same. With that a reader is always left with the memory that this is just a story. Goal of a story is to make the reader forget that fact, to be drawn into it so deep that when they get out it feels like they had just lived another life.

It’s the most complicated part in stories to track changes in characters and to try to keep them within the bounds of their personalities, especially with bigger stories, since here we’re talking about many little details that pile up as the story grows, and forgetting those details leads to the fade of what makes the characters who they are. They’d act against their history due to such mistakes.

How we go about these issues is using specialized documents and databases which make sure everything of importance is logged with extreme accuracy, so it can later-on be used appropriately.

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 editing from the developmental stage to the formatting.

EDITING

Developmental Editing

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.

Line Editing

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.

Copy Editing

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

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

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.

FAQ

Do I really need Editing?

It’s mandatory to have your work edited. Reality is that mistakes always reside in any text that require a pare of fresh eyes to find, as well as the editing experience and knowledge to carry out. But even with the abilities to go over and edit everything yourself, then you have to remember that you will be removing as much time as you’d put into writing your story, just so you can go over the text 4-5 times to carry out the editing sequences. That is not something anyone wants to do in their creative persuit. This paragraph has 2 editing mistakes. Did you find them?