Keep your writing voice
Editing Process
Enjoying your fine work and encouraging you in your writing are even more important to me than finding your errors. Creativity must have room to express itself, When you write your story, you see and know the story. I will only see and know the story as your words make it clear to me. This is why it's easier for me to find your mistakes than for you to find your own.
The editing process is to make your book the best it can be, without changing your writing voice. Your words will be thoroughly checked through proofreading, and your work will be polished. No changes will be made without your approval. You are the author. You have the final say.
About Ellen
A Bit About Me
- Completed editing course through Writer's Digest
- Member of the Florida Writers Association (FWA) editing team, 2022
- Royal Palm Literary Awards (RPLA) finalist
- RPLA judge
- Published in FWA anthology 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023
- Past leader of Winter Haven Writers in Winter Haven, Florida
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Pricing done on an individual basis
I will assess and line edit the first five pages of your book at no charge. Then we will decide if we're a good fit and work well together. The first five pages will not be included in the pricing.
A sample of my writing!
I love words and I love writing. This is a published poem about my muse.
Muse of Words ©2018
Words so alluring, strong and enduring, arrive through my fingertips.
Soft and beguiling, pensive then smiling, alive when they kiss my lips.
Sweet but heartbreaking, a tale of my making emerges and peers back at me.
Stuff of my dreams, the plots and the schemes are whispers from deity.
The soft hush of dawn, the cries it will spawn breathe life to a newborn day.
In the black fearsome night, a candle of light will hold dark shadows at bay.
Words paint a scene, cluttered or clean, of sunshine or ebony night.
Colors appear and hum through my ear, singing words of softness and might.
Words so inspiring, words never tiring, myriads of words I can choose.
Words always growing, enchanted and growing. Words are the soul of my muse.
