why is editing expensive

Hiring an editor seems pretty straightforward, doesn’t it? You wrote some words, and now you need a professional to tell you what needs fixing.

You open a new tab, type in ‘Editor needed’, and hit ‘enter’. And that’s when it hits you.

• There are an awful lot of editors out there,
• who offer an awful lot of different things,
• for wildly different rates.

I won’t go into the third one today, but the first two are partly related. One of the reasons there are an awful lot of editors out there is because editing is an umbrella term for different kinds and levels of editing.

That, however, is not what makes the process complicated. So, what does?Read More →