"SNATCHED"

             

 

                                                                 The Finished Project

By now, we’ve all seen the social media video of the traveling makeup brush dropped seemingly through space person to person for the beautiful makeover or “Snatched,” the urban terminology for looking good or on point.

 

If only making anything perfect was as magical as makeup brush-dropping, the entire world would be in a better place.

 

Since it’s not that simple, let me offer a few ideas of how to make at least one task in your life as close to perfect as possible.

 

So you’ve finished your manuscript, dotted every I, and crossed each T, and now you’re unsure about what comes next. Well, It’s not a magical brush but a clever and necessary process called editing.

 

I can help you with that.

 

There are three types of editing, substantive (line editing), copyediting, and proofreading.

 

If you are exceptional at everything, you won’t require any of the abovementioned processes. Nevertheless, none of us are perfect, and you may need at least one if not all of them.

 

The goal is to determine which one applies based on your level of expertise or needs.

 

To best explain the process, I will define what each means, starting with line editing.

https://blog.reedsy.com/ states that line editing is a part of the book editing process where the editor aims to improve the clarity of a piece of writing. A professional line editor examines the manuscript on a sentence level, leaving suggestions for word choice, syntax, and tone to enhance the author’s writing style and the text’s overall effectiveness.

 

You can’t go wrong there, and it can help get your book to the desired Snatched category.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia says Copy editing (also known as manuscript editing) is the process of revising written material (“copy”) to improve readability and fitness, as well as ensuring that text is free of grammatical and factual errors.^[1][2] The Chicago Manual of Style states that manuscript editing encompasses “simple mechanical corrections (mechanical editing) through sentence-level interventions (line, or stylistic, editing) to substantial remedial work on literary style and clarity, disorganized passages, baggy prose, muddled tables and figures, and the like (substantive editing).” In the context of print publication, copy editing is done before typesetting and again before proofreading.

 

Wow! That’s a mouthful, but I hoped you got all that.

 

Note copy editing is not the same as proofreading; the next and last step.

 

http://www.butte.edu/departments/cas/tipsheets/style_purpose_strategy/proofreading.html defines proofreading as the final stage of the writing process for mechanical correctness, such as grammar, punctuation, spelling, omitted words, repeated words, spacing, and format, and typographical errors.

 

Now that you have a better understanding of what each means and their necessity. I hope this will send you in the right direction on your journey and goals.

 

After completing these processes, your project results will be polished and worthy of the word “Snatched.”