What Happens During a Developmental Edit
This post is for those readers out there who are curious about the process of self-publishing, and more specifically, about what happens when you get a developmental edit. First, let’s define a developmental edit. This is typically what authors have done after beta readers and critique partners have gone through their manuscript. A developmental editor takes a close look at the story and gives notes about the characters, their motivations, their journey and how they change, the romance, and the important moments in the novel (like the meet cute, the midpoint crisis, etc.) A DE is so important for an author to do. In fact, when I was researching all the different types of editing I needed for my books …