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developmental editing

Editing with Empathy

By John Huston

January 26, 2022 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Editing with Empathy

The big stuff is there: good and evil, right and wrong, but the depth isn’t. Our protagonist doesn’t struggle. She’s too clean, too plain. How do we tell our author that their baby needs considerable re-working?

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: developmental editing, Editing, empathy, fantasy, fantasy writer, publishing

The Beginning of Our New YA Title

By Luis Ramos @luissoto805

November 29, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

The Beginning of Our New YA Title

Everyone likes Filipino food, and we are shamelessly capitalizing on that love. After all, when else will we get to work on a book with the words “egg rolls” in the title?

Filed Under: Start to Finish Tagged With: author, awards, blurbs, contacts, copyediting, cover, dance, dancing, Design, developmental editing, Editing, egg rolls, fiction, Filipino, food, Jason Tanamor, love, Marketing, production, Progress, publicity, revisions, Social Media, strategy, Tinikling, update, young adult

Beat Marking: What Prose Editors Can Learn from Theater and Scripts

By Phoebe Whittington @PhoebeW

November 10, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Beat Marking: What Prose Editors Can Learn from Theater and Scripts

There is no singular right or wrong way to approach editing, which is why there is immense creativity and personalized approaches. It also means that editors can pull inspiration from a wide variety of sources and mediums. I’d like to draw attention to theater and scripts as a powerful source for improving your editing skills with plot, characterization, and dialogue.

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: alternate mediums, beat marking, beats, book editing, character development, developmental editing, dialogue, drama, Editing, editing tips, fiction, movies, narrative structure, pacing, plot, prose, script analysis, scripts, theater, TV

Editing Psychological Thrillers

By Megan Vader Bongolan

October 29, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Editing Psychological Thrillers

Editing psychological thrillers is a fun process that challenges authors and editors alike. It’s our responsibility at Ooligan Press to assist authors during the editorial process. Building relationships with authors not only makes editing smoother but it helps form an artistic bond. Psychological thrillers need extra attention from both editors and authors in order to portray mental illnesses and symptoms accurately.

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: Authors, blogging, book publishing, books, developmental editing, Editors, mental illnesses, ooligan press, psychological fiction, psychological thrillers, psychology, writing

How To Edit A Story Without Taking It Away From The Author

By Scott Fortmann

September 29, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

How To Edit A Story Without Taking It Away From The Author

Rather than go through the sometimes tedious process of asking questions and making suggestions, we are tempted to just tell the author what to do to make the story better—or, at least, make it better to us. And that is the one thing we must not do.

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: author, developmental editing, Editing, editor

Turn the Page

By Amanda Fink @_cecilia_mae_

August 9, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Turn the Page

Authors and editors of children’s and young adult books have an important job: not only do they need to resonate with adult readers, but they also need to connect with young readers. As editors, we need to help authors find the “turn the page” moments within their manuscripts—the moments that completely grab the reader and make it impossible for them to put the book down. These moments make a book compulsively readable. Regardless of the genre, we need to tease out these moments in every book that we edit.

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: developmental editing, Editing, life of an editor, writing tips

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