NONFICTION: Need a reverse outline for your manuscript? Sign-posts for your journey through text? A shepherd for your milling herds of brilliant ideas? A developmental edit is all about clarifying what you want to say and in what order you might say it. There IS a book there, and I will help you to find it by:

Identifying central and subsidiary arguments and evaluating the evidence for each

Reordering and/or restructuring chapters

Removing (or incorporating) repetition

Identifying paths not taken/unrealized potential

FICTION: Have an idea that you know is a story but can’t seem to get it to take that story shape? Whether you are writing a novel or trying to nail down the plot points of a screenplay, a developmental edit can lay out paths for forward progress and guard against blind alleys.