She discussed the various editing strategies and identified my intended goals, then provided cost options and a predicted turnaround time. Her classes were relevant, organized, clearly communicated, and provided valuable insight into the craft and business of writing. When it was time to edit my manuscript, I wanted Sara to do the work. “I took two of Sara’s classes and after each, my writing greatly improved by using her recommendations. I will seek her help again, and I highly recommend her to anyone who wants to improve his or her technique! Thank you, Sara! Polarity thanks you, too!” -Brenda Vicars, author of Polarity in Motion (Red Adept Publishing, 2014) I was much better prepared to produce a publishable manuscript because of Sara’s teaching. I quickly wrote Polarity in Motion and found a publisher. There is no doubt that the work I did with Sara on my first manuscript provided some of the best training of my writing life.
“I asked Sara to edit a lengthy manuscript (my first) that I’d worked on for years–seven to be exact. I had literally worn out all my beta reader friends and lost all objectivity about the manuscript and writing in general. Sara did an amazing job of pointing out restructuring needs that made so much sense, I wondered why I hadn’t thought of them myself. She also did a detailed line-by-line edit with copious side notes. I felt as if I were getting a personalized creative writing course–well, actually, that is exactly what I did get. I completed all the rewrites that she recommended, but during this process, a vague, unformed notion, which had been flitting through my mind, for a young adult novel sprang into full, technicolor life.
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