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A ghostwriter develops the manuscript from your ideas, interviews, notes, outline or draft while you remain the credited author. Projects typically move through discovery, outlining, milestone drafts, feedback and revisions.
Voice matching is developed through interviews, writing samples, preferences and feedback. The purpose is to create a manuscript that communicates your ideas in a voice you are comfortable publishing under your name.
Developmental editing focuses on structure and big-picture effectiveness. Line editing improves flow, tone and sentence-level expression. Copyediting focuses on grammar, consistency, usage and style.
Usually yes. Proofreading is a final quality-control stage after substantive editing and ideally after layout, when the manuscript should no longer require major rewriting.
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