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Developmental Outline Package: For promising material that nevertheless
needs a good deal of conceptual revision to plot and structure to achieve its full potential, it’s often faster
and more economical to work in outline form. Our Developmental Outline Package includes a read of your complete manuscript and up to 20 hours worth of consultation and document review with the goal of creating a detailed synoptic outline to guide your revision. Once completed you’ll
know exactly where you’re going before your fingers ever touch the
keyboard—avoiding blind alleys and endless rewrites. The Developmental Outline
is most appropriate for novels, screenplays, multivolume series (screenplay or
novel), and adaptations (novel-to-screenplay, screenplay-to-novel). It can also
be used with nonfiction documentaries. If your project requires more than 20
hours (because of exceptional length, for instance), we’ll discount the
additional time spent.
Turnaround Time: Standard: Varies with client’s available time
and preferred pace; generally 30-90 days. Rush: 3-14
days, depending on client’s available time and preferred pace.
Price:
$1700 (standard) / $2300 (rush) for manuscripts up to 110,000 words. Please contact the Tucson office for pricing information for longer manuscripts.
- Task Memo: $975 and up. The content of these memos varies greatly, depending on the nature and scope of the issues being addressed. Common topics for novelists include plot architecture and development, characterization, and dialogue. In all cases the Task Memo takes an in-depth look at any shortcomings in the work and makes specific suggestions to address them.
- Self-Editing Memo: $1125. In-depth assessment and coaching of an author's writing style. Any self-editing points that would strengthen the author's voice and style are explained at length via editorial memorandum and illustrated with examples from the manuscript and line-editing samples.
- Self- Editing Tutorial: $950. Renni Browne will line edit a generous sample of a manuscript and explain her changes in coaching notes that lay out principles by which the author can self-edit the rest of the work. The editing will address narrative voice and literary effect, clarity, smoothness, repetition, etc. and includes copyediting. Renni will answer author questions via e-mail or phone.
- Fiction Technique Memo: $2200. Coaches plot and scene construction, character creation and development, dialogue content and delivery, and dramatic structure—using examples from the manuscript and the editor's suggestions. At an average length of anywhere between 45 and 60 pages, the Fiction Technique Memo is our most comprehensive and in-depth service for teaching novel craft. It’s ideal for the writer who has terrific instincts or ideas but who lacks the literary equivalent of formal training.
Questions? Please e-mail us by clicking here or call us at (520) 546-9992.
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