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  • Scheduling

    My Calendar

    My calendar varies widely, depending upon the time of year, proximity of holidays, number of clients currently on my schedule, my own writing commitments, and random meteorological occurrences. I’m generally scheduling four to eight weeks ahead, so feel free to contact me any time to find out how things are looking right now.

    Starter Developmental Edit or Abbreviated Developmental Edit
    one week

    It takes approximately a week to complete a Starter Developmental Edit or an Abbreviated Developmental Edit (two weeks to complete an Abbreviated Developmental Edit on a manuscript of more than 80,000 words). See my Editing Specials.

    Developmental Edit
    four-to-six weeks

    It takes four to six weeks to complete a purely Developmental Edit on a 72,000-word manuscript, without Copy or Line Editing and with the full manuscript in hand—that’s a lot of talking back and forth with the writer. See Copy, Line, & Developmental Editing Explained and my Rates.

    Copy & Line Edit
    six-to-eight weeks

    It takes six to eight weeks to complete a purely Copy & Line Edit on a 72,000-word manuscript, if no Developmental Editing is necessary and with the full manuscript in hand. See Copy, Line, & Developmental Editing Explained and my Rates.

    Copy, Line, & Developmental Edit
    eight-to-ten weeks

    I can usually complete a 72,000-word manuscript of Copy, Line, and Developmental Editing, without additional Developmental Editing and with the full manuscript in hand, in about eight to ten weeks, once you’re on my calendar—so long as I’m not swamped. See Copy, Line, & Developmental Editing Explained and my Rates.

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2 Responses to “Scheduling”

  1. Claire J. Drapkin said on November 26th, 2010 at 6:43 pm

    Victoria:
    I have begun work on a memoir (working title, “Alcoholic Marriage.”) I have taken one chapter and tried to create a marketable personal essay of 2,000 words.
    I’m interested in the cost of a full edit of this piece in the near future. Then, I want to look at perhaps 5,000 to 7,000 words of the first chapters of the memoir sometime in early 2011. I want to produce the best I can before asking for edits.
    My writing has emotion, and the characterization is good, I believe the dialogue is good, but the copy-editing mediocre at best and the tension arc is perhaps debatable. I take online courses at Gotham, work part-time as a clinical social worker, and am 71.
    This will be Christmas gift from my husband, so I don’t have unlimited resources, but I do intend to save money for an edit before I send my book anywhere. I like your web site, photograph and credits. A friend from IWW sent me your address.
    I have had two personal essays published by the Boston Globe Sunday magazine, and a short story of mine won the annual newspaper contest of the Boston Phoenix. I’m not a new writer, but I know have a lot to learn.
    Sincerely,

    Claire Drapkin

    P.S. My computer connection would not permit me to reach you by contact mode, so I am sending this inquiry in this fashioh. I hope this does not inconvenience you.

  2. Victoria said on December 2nd, 2010 at 7:22 pm

    Hi Claire! I’m responding to you over email. Odd about the Contact button not working.

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Short story author Scott Warrender is a Mentoring Program client. I have done full Copy, Line, & Developmental Editing on a number of short stories for him, the first of which was his poignant fictional memoir of Africa, ''The Boy With the Newsprint Kite,'' now published in the Foundling Review.

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Bhaichand Patel is the author of two nonfiction books: Chasing the Good Life (Penguin Books India, October, 2006), and Happy Hours (Penguin Books India, October, 2009). I edited Patel's debut novel, When the Streets Were Cold and Dark.

I've edited a number of nonfiction essays for my friend Lucia Orth. (Many years ago, my contribution to Baby Jesus Pawn Shop was simply a peer critique and participation in a standing ovation.)

The poet Chris Ryan is the author of The Bible of Animal Feet (Farfalla Press, 2007). He has recent stories in Pank, Anemone Sidecar, and A Cappella Zoo. I edited Ryan's novel The Ishmael Blade and worked with him on his debut novel Heliophobia and WIP Pogue.