Editing Services

Editing follows the accepted standard style guides: The Chicago Manual of Style, the American Psychological Association (APA), and the Modern Language Association (MLA); along with the elegant and indisputable guide for any and all manuscripts: The Elements of Style by Strunk & White.

Editing Costs

  • For copyediting: $3 per page
  • For more extensive editing or developmental editing: Will give you an individual estimate

Developmental Editing focuses on: narrative arc, story structure: Act I, Act II, and Act III; plot points & inconsistencies; clear transitions; showing vs. telling; vibrant dialogue; takeaways and consistency of  themes.

Copy Editing focuses on line-by-line correction of grammar, punctuation, redundant words and awkward sentence structure.

Write as though your life depends on it, that’s writing with a passionate heart, the true writer's adventure!

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Endorsements

Rebecca Jo Dakota

Sometimes we just need another person to hold the space for us while we change. We might really just need to “move the needle” a little in our self-image, in how we think of ourselves. Having someone else co-visualize that change with us can make all the difference. That’s what Marjorie does. She holds the space for those of us who want to write, who want to write well, who want to finally claim “writer” as a title. Having been in a writing group she led and also attending several writing retreats, I can say that it was Marjorie’s teaching and encouragement that made the difference for me.
Thank you Marjorie.

Phyllis Ryan

My experience in Marjorie’s Memoir Class continues to be a gradual un-layering of my past, which is 87 years old, revealing a life that I had somehow discounted as not important.  Now I am realizing that I am a font of great tales that only I have access to and that perhaps my stories will be as interesting to others as they are to me!
Thanks, Marjorie.

Ruth Sandoval

Working with Marjorie St. Clair has been an eye opening experience!  During our coaching sessions, Marjorie has shown me that I can achieve writing goals that were once only a lifelong dream.  Her knowledge of good writing, astute assessment of my talents and abilities has given me solid ground to begin in earnest.  Marjorie is fearless in challenging her students to stretch to become better writers.

Kristin Kailey

I’m now in the second part of my memoir-writing journey and I know I’m supposed to be here. It’s not easy, but it’s worth it. I start writing about one thing and other, often painful things, arise. This class of beautiful women is a lovely, safe place to explore the ways in which to just get it done. Marjorie’s sweet spirit guides us through each class and I feel it when I’m writing on my own. I’m learning so much about myself.
Thanks Marjorie!

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Resources

Literary Journals & Writing Magazines:

Creative Non-Fiction Journal:

River Teeth Journal
nonfiction narrative

Hippocampus-Online
creative nonfiction magazine

Persimmon Tree
an online literary & arts magazine
for women over sxty

Paris Review

Writer's Digest

Poets and Writers


Other Sites of Interest

Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore Paris

Goodreads

Brain Pickings

Lit Hub

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