Side Hustle: Editing for you!
Who I am: A college graduate who majored in English and graduated with Honors. I have years of working as an acquiring reader for our local lit mag, as well as working as a consultant and teaching writing. I have professionally written and translated curriculum for various academic grant projects, re-written my currently employer's entire email blast scheme and content, and I write a lot of fanfic. I am also currently work as a mod on my first ‘zine, @aizawabowl-zine.
Who YOU are: Someone who needs someone to look over your work.
What I need: Money. I’m coming out of a divorce and preparing for a cross-state move. I need all the help I can get.
What I can provide: Mad Editing Skills. I will help edit for content. This is not a beta read or a basic grammar/spell check. This is an editing pass. I will look at form, yes, but more importantly content and function. Is your argument coherent? Is your character's motives and actions in line with each other? How are you using language? Is your theme being accurately represented? Are you citing your sources correctly? Are you using a VALID source? That's me, that's what I do. I'll catch other errors as they are found, but they won't be the focus of my work.
Cost breakdown: $4/Page - this buys you an initial read of your pages, your chance to edit and return for a second read! Yes, you're getting TWO reads at this cost. What constitutes a page of writing?: The industry standard manuscript set up constitutes a page, for page count.
+10$/source - If need to read or review at your request to get more familiar, I will do so! A 'source' will be considered one book, or 2 episodes of an anime/show, or one academic source (article, book, video, etc.) You must provide either the source in question, pay for me to get it, or access to a free copy. If you want me to read a 7-volume manga for your piece, you are going to pay $70 and find a way to provide said manga - either scanlations or purchased via Amazon, whichever you want me to review. The $70 is not for me to provide myself with the item, but to pay for my time actively taking time to watch or read from my schedule and use for analysis to help better work with your piece, not for the media itself. FEEL FREE TO ASK ME WHAT I’M FAMILIAR WITH, I’ll be glad to tell you, cause it’s a super long list.
+15$/personalized discussion - Do you want to sit down and talk to me about the piece itself? Talk about emotional impact, after the final edit? Do you want to know what I thought/felt outside of what I've pointed out? Do you have further questions? $15 will get you an hour of my time to sit down and do that with you, which will be agreed upon and added to final invoice.
+50$/Rush Job - do you need this out RIGHT NOW? I can make the time, if you can pay a little more for it. Otherwise a timeframe in which the piece is selected and reviewed (usually a week, though longer pieces will obviously take longer, and shorter ones will take less, depending on content!) will be discussed and agreed upon.
TIPS: I will absolutely accept them, thank you for offering.
Other fees will be applied if the work becomes excessively complex or further requests are made on the piece, and will be levied on the second invoice.
To engage my services, half up front is required. If I do not deliver a first run read in a negotiated time frame, a partial refund will be issued depending on lateness. If I don't deliver at all you will get a full refund. Everything will be done via invoice on PayPal.
FOR EXAMPLE:
Your VOLTRON FANFIC! You want me to read and review your 25 page Voltron fic! Lucky for you I'm current to Season 7. Do you need me to get to 8? That's going to be $65 for source due to the length of the season: 13 episodes - on top of $4/page at 25. Due to time to watch the final season, you don't ask for a rush job, and there's no extra research involved. $165 is going to be the base cost. $80 will be due before I even pick up my TV remote and bring up my Netflix queue or look at your work. Within the agreed upon timeframe.
YOUR FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST FANFIC! You want me to review a 15 page fanfic. Lucky for you, I don’t need to research shit here, I know Fullmetal like I know my own arm. No research required. No rush, no fuss. Runs smooth as silk. $60 for this piece.
Your LIT PAPER! You need me to read a paper about your current assignment for your lit class. Thankfully, it's only 8 pages, but again you need me to read a source that I don't have. $10 per book/academic source, and you ask me to do 3. However, that paper is due in TWO DAYS, and this is a rush job. $50 is attached. You absolutely want to sit down and talk about your piece for an hour to see how it might be argued in front of a class, for $15 for that. $127 for your lit paper!
I reserve the right to refuse a piece: if your piece is filled with white nationalism, racism, child porn, anti-semitic messages, so on, you will be sent back your work after partial read, and you will not be issued a refund, but you will not be charged the second half of the read. I will read adult content. I just won't read literally ILLEGAL adult content, nor content that encourages criminality, glorifies rape or incest, engages in any anti-queer rhetoric, or is otherwise a vehicle for bigotry.
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED, please contact me either by PM here, twitter @ RavenWhoWrites, or [email protected].
