Louise first realized to experience a bike on the age of fifty and spent her retirement driving throughout Europe. She requested Phrase Dragon to edit her assortment of journey notes and emails right into a e book, that she might promote on the finish of talks about her experiences. Having mentioned her necessities, we selected a story and pulled the information right into a roughly chronological order earlier than the mission started in earnest.
Following an preliminary read-through to judge how a lot work was required, I despatched a abstract of suggestions and a citation based mostly on a developmental edit of round 85,000 phrases.
Here is how a small piece of the writing progressed.
The unique copy
Within the first chapter, Louise passes her bike check and goes to purchase some equipment to put on on her new bike. This was her draft:
The concepts had been there, however the textual content wanted tidying up when it comes to punctuation, readability and tone.
The edit
I made some minor adjustments straight within the textual content, highlighted in yellow on this instance. This ensured that the punctuation was correct and the voice and method was in step with the remainder of the e book. I additionally made some extra substantial adjustments at sentence stage, to enhance the readability.
Louise had requested me to maintain her voice and phrasing all through, so I additionally added some feedback. This confirmed clearly the place she wanted to offer extra enter and outlined what was essential, enabling her to retain management.
The ultimate model
Louise supplied some extra textual content in response to my queries and we agreed on this ultimate model.
Louise and I had been pleased with this model, which was integrated into the ultimate manuscript.
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