I know how important our worlds and character's voices are to us authors because I've spent my whole life in your shoes. Everything I am, is writing.
So, my promise to you is this:
I will honor your voice. I won't lose the underlying meaning behind your prose. Because I want to help your story breathe and sing, not suffocate it to what is considered "standard". And I'll explain my edits in the way a writer thinks: by sound and feel. There won't be any grammar jargon from me, because it's time we take back the creative control of our narratives.
Use that semicolon and em-dash, darlin'.... Read more