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What is Line Editing?

Line editing is the next step in publishing your novel, scrutinizing it sentence-by-sentence. Though fixing grammatical and mechanical mistakes is necessary, this specific stage of editing is about the language, making your work more concise, agonizing over that one word that brings it all together. Line editing works at the paragraph and sentence level of a project, making suggestions for rewriting or reorganizing sentences and passages to smooth it out so the story glides from beginning to end. This is where an adequate book can become a novel readers don't want to put down.

Line editing focuses on:

- each sentence, line-by-line
- the book's clarity and flow
- word choice
- phrasing
- consistency
- awkward sentences, passages and paragraphs

- improving the language and style
- transitions in your story
- reorganizing paragraphs and passages
- providing suggestions for tweaking, adjusting and rewriting any necessary components


What should you expect to pay for line editing services?

*STANDARD EDITORIAL RATES
Line Editing  $0.04 - $0.049/word

* OUR EDITORIAL RATE
Line Editing  $0.035/word

Please note: This price does not include developmental editing, copyediting or proofreading.
To combine services see our Content Editing and Comprehensive Editing Bundles.

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*Rest assured, our editorial rate goes to support real people. No AI programs have been used or ever will be used in association with Global Bookworms.
*Standard editorial rates are based on rates provided by the Editorial Freelancers Association at https://www.the-efa.org/rates/

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