Where creativity gets a finer point ~
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If you’re reading this, you’re writing for more than just your own enjoyment—you’re writing because you want to be a published author, or maybe you already are, yet you’re wanting to refine your latest work.
To get published—even a short story in a webzine—your writing needs to make a good first impression. It must be sharp and original to catch a decision-maker’s eye.
Is your manuscript ready? Click a service to learn how we can help you answer that question:
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Want to know more about us? Read on!
How can Word Edge give your manuscript a sharper edge?
Writing is hard work; editing is even harder. Most authors sweat words onto the page, live and breathe through their characters, and send out manuscripts hoping they’ve got all the pieces right. And there are a lot of pieces to writing starting with the basics of spelling, punctuation, and grammar to deeper and more subjective areas of voice, tone, theme, character development, plotting, and story cohesion.
But, that manuscript is your baby! birthed in the dark of the night while hunched over keyboard or notepad, with excitement, determination, and perhaps a dash of fear scuttling around in you like salmon straining upstream.
So how do you get an edge in the publishing world? How do you keep the big ugly bear paw from striking down all those hopes and dreams before you even scale the first set of rapids?
Sometimes it’s who you know, but more often it’s how you present yourself and your writing. You can’t get published if you can’t even get someone to read your manuscript.
Word Edge is here to help your baby get noticed by agents and publishers instead of stuffed in the round file or hidden at the bottom of a four-foot stack in some assistant editor’s gloomy, broom-closet-sized office. No one can guarantee what will strike a particular editor on any given day, but don’t you owe it to your manuscript to give it the best chance possible? If you’re nodding and whispering Yes, yes, yes! to your keyboard you’ve obviously been spending too much time alone with your characters (wink-wink). In reality, if you understand the need for
- an objective opinion about your writing,
- a professional evaluation of structure, characters, plot, mechanics,
- added confidence that your baby’s ready to pass from your hands into the cold, competitive publishing world…
You need Word Edge.
Word Edge takes your writing as seriously as you do and respects your creativity. Our aim is to help you make the best impression possible, whether to a literary agent or prospective publisher, and get noticed. Consider putting your baby in Word Edge’s experienced hands.
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