The Greatest Leap Forward for Author Editing since the Typewriter

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Some say, “it’s about time” while others scoff. What’s your take?

There is now a fresh and impressive technique for editing your book, manuscript, or academic document that’s pure genius. We’ve named it, “Human Assisted Electronic Software Scanning” and it works magnificently. Couple the leading Editing Software Applications with the brazen human eye and you get magic—fast.

Why has this not been done?

As professional editors ourselves, we at EditorStone Editing Services dislike any idea that may (even seemingly) jeopardize the future of our livelihood and trade. We’ve openly sneered at current technology, machinery that possesses any perceived potential for replacement of the human editor. We’ve impugned, “No software will ever replace the human eye and brain.” In the same breath, however, we’ve trembled at the recent decade of procedural writing overhauls and sudden self-publishing ‘best practice’ advances. It’s upsetting to have your entire world change overnight before your eyes. But now, we’ve finally unleashed an incredible concept that was there all along and simply slumbering through our suffering.

EditorStone is the first-ever Professional Editing Service to offer this innovative, leading-edge technological upgrade. Try it once on your next writing project. We’ll wager you never reach back to the way you’ve attained a ‘FINAL DRAFT EDITING STAGE’ ever again.

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Our parent company, INSONA Author Alliance Network recently conducted the following analysis that asked some pointed questions…

Is the day of human book editors going the way of traditional publishing?

As better tuned software editing programs proliferate, literary writers and authors are being passionately seduced to reap the highly acclaimed benefits of today’s new electronic applications. To ensure the accuracy of punctuation, spelling, grammar, and correct word usage, many modern tools are seen as a boon to fledgling writers. Realistically, many of the “boon” claims are true, and some are just edgy marketing hype. In this article, we will briefly examine the “state of the state” for book editing as we know it today for both electronic and human editing services.

Objectively

If a writer assumes that any one of the modern electronic editing utilities is “the” expert, he (or she) might blindly incorporate its “corrections” into a blossoming work. However, taken at face value, important errors can be made which can inadvertently harm the author’s entire intention. Additionally, subtle implications may be lost and/or flawed reader interpretations assumed.

Candidly

The same can be said for the subjective nature of advice from a human editor. It’s long been argued that a written work given to five different editors will result in five different opinions of how it should be re-written. True, most humans follow a strict set of rules, authoritative guides like The Chicago Manual of Style or the New Oxford Style Manual, but the similarity in human editor final results end there. Furthermore, the fact that one definitive style is not a standard for the entire industry is somewhat confusing for writers of the English language and leaves room for reader misinterpretation and author misguidance. The argument can also be noted here that, “many-a-great author’s works would have been ruined by ‘proper’ editing.”

Frankly

If today’s writer scans his work through a dozen software programs and five human editors, the end result will likely be very dissimilar to his own original thought. The work may even lose the author’s original passion and worse, perhaps even completely kill the author’s interest in re-editing and publishing the work.

Let’s face it, re-editing, redacting, re-writing—is the bigger part of the writer’s job. After all, twelve rewrites to achieve a final draft are not uncommon for a well-apportioned author.

When you take into account that both human and electronic editors can be cantankerous, INSONA takes the following view of the State of the State.

INSONA Evaluation Results:

Summation:

We found it interesting that for Accuracy and Added Value, the consensus was averaged very closely (all scores in a 1.4 point range).

Price/Value clearly has the greatest distinction (a 2.5 spread), but with the Value portion of that analysis being subjective. This result surprised us. Some testers placed a much higher value on human eyes. However, the outstanding focus of the analysis was on price.

TODAY:

For now, we at INSONA | EditorStone recommend authors use a minimum of two of the above options.

     One (1) – Acclaimed software editing program during the entire writing process.

  and

     One (1) – Well respected human editor just prior to the final draft.

The software application you choose should be the one you find best fits your writing style. Your human should be someone you trust, respect, and can correspond with directly, without going to a third party.

Rapid growth and developments in the software arena may in the next two years produce a viable competitor for a human editor. After all IBM’s Watson can beat a bonified chess master. Predictably as well, the industry may be forecasting an adjustment for human pricing. But for now, the eyes have it.

In Our Evaluation we benchmarked the following elements:

  ● Writer Type: Self-Publisher

     o  Average budget

     o  Needs for successful publishing on Amazon.

     o  Cost was a big consideration. A low Price/Value received a higher rating (above).


  ● Our testers were vetted professional authors and editors.


  ● For our HUMAN Editor pricing, we surveyed seven (7) free-lance editors from a generic Google search whose prices range upward from 1-2 cents per word (Avg: $1,200 for 80K word novel).

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