What Developmental Editing Can Do for Writers of Dark Fiction

Developmental editing, also called substantive or content editing, focuses on improving big-picture narrative elements in your writing. For fiction, developmental editing considers these aspects:

Genre concernsStory structureCharacters and characterizationNarration, point of view, and use of narrative modesPlot and paceSettingThemeMood and toneStyle and voiceExamples of developmental editing

As a developmental editor, I give your manuscript a careful reading to evaluate the previo...