We’ve received your manuscript and have read enough of it to offer this constructive critique, which we hope you’ll take into consideration before sending us another sample of your work. I’ve highlighted the errors and everything added or crossed out. There’s room for some creative improvisation. Keep in mind that not all your copyediting corrections have to look exactly like mine. Now, it’s time to compare your corrections with the letter below. In short let us offer you hour best hopes for the improvement of your writing don’t be discouraged keep at it and remember Proper Publishing House will always bee honest with you because Good proofreading makes such a deference! We recommend you contact the services of a inexperienced proofreader or copyediter before submitting to us any future writing samples. My fellow editers here at Proper Publishing House agree with all the statements in this letter which I spent ours perfecting ought of sincere gratitude for your efforts and true dat concern for yore development as a writer.ġ3. She’s certainly stiff as a board (see what i did they’re?).ġ2. Yet we never find out weather she’s waiting for someone or something or if shes just really board. Her boyfriend the main character, does most of the talking, and she stairs out the window a lot and I mean a LOT. She listens to the main character and throws in a few responses hear and their but is otherwise bland and two dimensional. We dont really get to now your secondary character well enough to care about what happens to her. We tired but had to skip to the end wear he finally sums it up nicely.ġ1. Your main character launches into a stream of conscience monologue and his dialoge partner somehow doesn’t lapse into a coma before he finishes this is wishful thinking and makes it hard to sympathize with the mane character who’s soliloquy is way too long to keep you’re readers attention. If you must indicate sighs, grins, and other nonverbal gestures set them apart from teh quotes with periods rather than commas.ġ0. Stick with “said” but try to make it more obvious who is saying whom without using dialog tags for every quote. Please please please stop using dialog tags like “he grinned” or “she sighed”. Please eliminate most of them, and and make your sentences shorter clearer, and less wordy.ĩ. The dialogue feels forced and unathentic: the southern accent is overdone and painful too read.ħ. You switch points of view, jumping from one persons head to another without warning, it’s confusing and you risk loosing your reader’s trust end attentionĦ. As Anton Checkov wrote: “Dont tell me the moon is shining, show me hte glint of light on broken glass.”ĥ. You tell more then show what your characters are feeling. You use third person omiscient POV, which in our humble opinion, weakens the impact of your main characters painful situation.Ĥ. Try to evoke an emotional response within the first few paragraphs.Ģ. We’ve recieved your manuscript and have read enough of it to offer this constructive critique, which we hope you’ll take unto consideration before sending us another sample of your work, we do value you’re time.ġ. May you find the following proofreader and copy editor test as helpful and enjoyable as it was excruciating to write. Padding: const EdgeInsets.To make this proofreading test more challenging, I’ve thrown in a variety of hurdles for you to spot and clear as you make your way to the finish line. ListView( // change this to ListView.builder for more performance Column(children: [ // and this do not need Height: MediaQuery.of(context).height*0.8, // add this line FloatingActionButton: FloatingActionButton(Ĭhild: Icon(Icons.create, color: ey),
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