Editor: Lacy (MissLacybee)

Client: Grisha2610

Work: The Wings of Night

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The author was great to work with and very receptive to feedback. I was asked to edit basic grammar but, as the book was a poetry collection, it was difficult to focus only on capitalisation and full stops. Instead, I ended up focusing mainly on flow, the rhyme scheme and the sentence structure (there were places in the poetry where things felt a bit clunky). 

Without rewriting entire poems and ruining the author's style, it was also difficult to make everything fit smoothly, but the majority of issues were fairly fixable, as long as several stanzas were rewritten or words were removed. 

The subjects of the poems were original and interesting - this was a very fun project to work with, especially as I have only edited a couple of poems in the past. It was a learning experience for me as well! I advised the author to rephrase a couple of poems and, on a couple of situations, to choose alternative rhymes which didn't feel quite as forced as the ones in the original version. But, overall, I didn't have to edit a huge amount - most of it was me giving suggestions to possibly make things smoother, instead of me dictating what was wrong and right. 

 Good luck to the author with their Amazon book!