Helping over 50,000 Writers Become Authors Since 1994!
Now FirstEditing is the FIRST Certified StoryCoach Company in the world!
If you have completed your self-editing with StoryTeller or simply want it “done for you” now, you get professional editing with personal service.
Your Story Coach is an experienced, vetted, and certified StoryCoach editor who professionally evaluates how good your story is and then shows you specifically how to make it great! Using a successfully proven story arc to test each section of your writing, your Story Coach analyzes and tells you where and how to make your novel structurally better. Thus, you learn how to better write and self-edit from a professional editor. Combining their creative expertise from years of editing in the publishing industry, your Story Coach outlines exactly what you can do to tell a better story before publishing to success.
StoryCoach Editing is a developmental editing process. It is comprehensive and fully assesses your Fiction story to determine how to perfect your overall story arc structurally. The StoryCoach Content Edit includes reviewing the 38 Story Elements, essential to creating a powerful story for publishing. This is available only upon recommendation and approval by a certified StoryCoach Editor.
StoryCoach Editing is the most in-depth, high-level editing service for fiction writers. We review your entire manuscript structure and compare it with a successfully proven story arc. After evaluating the foundational elements of characters, plots, and settings, your StoryCoach Editor digs deeper into your novel’s fine details. They provide individualized coaching on the use of the 38 Story Elements as applicable to your unique manuscript. You receive an in-depth StoryCoach Edit with advice, notes, and recommendations throughout your writing. You also get a professional Summary Letter, which allows you to see the “big picture” of your story’s strengths and challenges. We only provide a Story Coach edit to approved manuscripts.
Prepare for an intensive revision process after the initial StoryCoach Edit. There will be many insights to your writing which will require you to adjust your manuscript accordingly. Often our StoryCoach editors recommend reorganization, additions, and truncations to your chapters and scenes. Ultimately, you decide if you implement these changes or not. We guarantee your certified StoryCoach editor suggests these changes based upon fiction industry standards, extensive writing experience, vetted training, and proven author story arc models. Word choice, style, and copy editing are important, but they don’t matter if you do not have a great story!
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Learn If You Qualify For a StoryCoach Edit!
We recommend a StoryCoach Edit only for authors committed to an additional in-depth revision of their entire novel. A StoryCoach Edit is an intense and very successful method using a unique combination of publishing techniques with a high-tech writing software. You have free inside access to our patented, professional online writing and editing tool for two months following your professional edit. This allows you to complete your story’s developmental revision according to the industry’s necessary framework, which proves successful again and again for bestselling authors. Ask your editor if your manuscript qualifies for StoryCoach Editing.
Your Story Coach conducts an in-depth review of your fiction writing and tests its strengths based upon the following sections:
Characters
Plot
Settings
Ask your editor to approve your manuscript for a Story Coach Edit when submitting your manuscript for a free editing sample and professional recommendation.
Request a StoryCoach Editing Sample Today!
Learn If You Qualify For a StoryCoach Edit!
Certified StoryCoach Editors are unique, experienced, and vetted professionals. Our editors have completed an exclusive 30-hour training and learned to combine their extensive in-depth Content Editing skills with StoryCoach software’s innovative technology. First Editing is the FIRST StoryCoach Certified Editing enterprise in the world. We have chosen StoryCoach because it allows us to provide a solid Satisfaction Guarantee regarding the comprehensive content editing process.
Order a Copy Edit LAST before formatting and publishing.
Recommended ONLY for confident fiction writers who have completed multiple revisions and are prepared to begin formatting
Necessary as your FINAL Story Edit after all Line Edit revisions are complete
Order a Line Edit as your final REVISION before sharing publicly or distributing your book.
Recommended BEFORE sharing, distribution, review or publication
Necessary MINIMUM Story Edit revision before submitting to literary agents or beta readers
Order a Content Edit to get professional in-line FEEDBACK and successfully rework the structural details of your book.
Recommended for an IN-DEPTH Content Edit to better organize and polish your writing
Necessary level of HELP REQUIRED when your writing has extensive issues with English grammar, comprehension, clarity, or structure
Order a StoryCoach Edit to achieve confidence that your story is strong. Get the most COMPREHENSIVE EDIT available. Extensive feedback!
Recommended for Coaching & FEEDBACK. Get an in-depth Development Edit to better structure and develop your story.
Necessary for REVISING, organizing and presenting your narrative. Get assistance with content editing and an extensive assessment of your plot.
Only request professional Copy Editing services as your FINAL EDIT when planning NO revisions to your story.
Recommended ONLY for confident fiction writers who have completed multiple revisions and are prepared to begin formatting
Necessary as your FINAL Story Edit after all Line Edit revisions are complete
Seek professional Line Editing services as the MINIMUM PROFESSIONAL EDIT AFTER YOUR STRUCTURAL REVISIONS as necessary before seeking beta readers, reviews, or agent submissions.
Recommended BEFORE sharing, distribution, review or publication
Necessary MINIMUM Story Edit revision before submitting to literary agents or beta readers
Get professional Developmental and Structural Editing services as a COMPREHENSIVE EDIT and help for your writing skills. Receive structural revisions while referencing your characters, plot, or story arc needs.
Recommended for an IN-DEPTH Content Edit to better organize and polish your writing
Necessary level of HELP REQUIRED when your writing has extensive issues with English grammar, comprehension, clarity, or structure
Start with Developmental StoryCoach Editing. Get an in-depth CONTENT EDIT, SUMMARY LETTER, and STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS. Receive virtual Book Coaching and follow-up inside our StoryCoach software for two-months. Complete the content revisions to make your story great!
Recommended for Coaching & FEEDBACK. Get an in-depth Development Edit to better structure and develop your story.
Necessary for REVISING, organizing and presenting your narrative. Get assistance with content editing and an extensive assessment of your plot.
Delivery time for a StoryCoach Edit is approximately 3 weeks.