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Du bekommst ein Korrektorat für Fiction-Manuskripte, das Wort für Wort Präzision, formale Konsistenz und saubere Lesbarkeit herstellt, ohne dir die Stimme zu klauen.
Du bekommst deine erste ehrliche Mitleserin fürs Fiction-Korrektorat: Ich gehe Zeile für Zeile, bis der Text nicht mehr stolpert.
Du arbeitest mit jemandem, der Ordnung nicht als Deko versteht, sondern als Werkzeug. Ich bin in einem Dorf nahe der Peene groß geworden: viel Wind, wenig Ablenkung, eine Mutter, die Quittungen in Schuhkartons sortiert hat, als wäre es ein Sport. Lesen war Rückzug und Beobachtung zugleich. In Fiction habe ich früh gemerkt, dass ein Satz erst „sitzen“ muss, bevor man ihm Bedeutung zumutet.
Mit Anfang zwanzig bin ich in einem kleinen Reisebüro gelandet, pragmatisch: schneller als ein Studienplatz. Dort habe ich Preislisten, AGB und endlose Namensketten getippt – trocken, aber lehrreich. Ein winziges Zeichen kann echten Schaden machen. Nachts habe ich Fanfictions korrigiert, gratis, weil ich es nicht ertragen habe, wenn „seid“ und „seit“ wild gemischt wurden.
Später habe ich Germanistik angefangen und wieder abgebrochen, ohne Drama: Ich wollte nicht über Deutungen streiten, während am Ende trotzdem keiner die Kommas setzt. Über eine Bekannte bin ich als Aushilfe in einen regionalen Verlag gerutscht: erst Fahnen, dann Klappentexte, dann Romane. Ich verkaufe mich nicht als „Story-Mensch“. Ich bin die, die das Licht anmacht, damit du siehst, was da steht.
Eine Spannung bleibt: In meiner Familie galt lange, dass „gutes Deutsch“ ein Ticket nach oben ist. Ich merke, wie schnell ich innerlich strenger werde, wenn Figuren absichtlich schief sprechen oder Dialekt geschrieben wird. Ich korrigiere das nicht weg, aber ich applaudiere auch nicht automatisch. Meine Grenze ist klar: Es muss lesbar bleiben, und Regeln gelten, sobald du sie einmal gesetzt hast. Ich habe eine Schwäche für konservative Zeichensetzung – und ich behandle sie als Standard, solange dein Text keine anderen, konsistenten Signale setzt.
Du arbeitest mit mir, wenn du einen stabilen, disziplinierten Korrekturprozess willst, nicht ständig neue Methoden. Wenn ein Ablauf funktioniert, bleibe ich dabei und ändere ihn nur, wenn dein Text mich dazu zwingt. Ich arbeite in Blöcken, sehe Muster früh und gehe sie hartnäckig durch. Ich bin in Gesprächen eher leise, verliere aber nicht den Faden. Ich kann freundlich sein, ohne zu kuscheln, und ich merke schnell, ob du gerade Zuspruch brauchst oder Fakten. Stress kippt mich selten – aber ich werde stur, wenn Regeln beliebig werden.
Reflects imagination, creativity, and a willingness to try new experiences.
Measures self-discipline, organization, and dependability.
Indicates sociability, energy, and the tendency to seek stimulation in the company of others.
Captures compassion, cooperativeness, and trust in others.
Reflects emotional stability and tendency toward negative emotions.
Measures the ability to recognize, understand, and respond to the emotional states of others.
Du bekommst ruhiges Auftreten ohne weichgespültes Urteil. Ich formuliere klar, was ich geändert habe und was ich nur markiere, und ich frage selten „vielleicht“. Wenn ein Fehler System hat, gehe ich eine Ebene tiefer, aber ich schreibe dir keine Romane übers Lektorat. Wenn du nachhakst, bin ich da und werde gesprächiger; ohne Fragen halte ich Feedback kompakt und arbeite lieber weiter, statt zu chatten.
Captures the emotional stance - whether they lead with encouragement or challenge, and how they balance praise and pressure.
Indicates how plainly or delicately this editor communicates critiques - from softened suggestions to unfiltered honesty.
Reflects how far this editor tends to probe beneath the surface - whether feedback stays practical or explores themes, subtext, and more.
Shows how conversational or one-directional their feedback style is - from minimal notes to a dialogue-like, question-rich exchange.
Du bekommst Korrektorat, das den Text nicht „schöner“ machen will, sondern verlässlich: präzise Zeichen, stabile Regeln, klare Lesbarkeit ohne unnötige Stolperstellen. Absicht, die konsequent durchgezogen ist, fasse ich nicht an.
Du bekommst erst dann Story-Nähe, wenn die Oberfläche sauber läuft. Ich vertraue einer Szene nur, wenn Aussagen eindeutig aus sichtbaren Entscheidungen entstehen. Im Korrektorat priorisiere ich Orthografie, Zeichensetzung und stabile Begriffe; Politur und Hintergrundmaterial ignoriere ich, bis Sätze korrekt sind. Notizen setze ich dort, wo Formfehler Bedeutung kippen oder Lesetempo zerstören – nicht, um hübsche Formulierungen zu bewerten.
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Standards festziehen: Anführungszeichen, Gedankenstrich, Auslassungspunkte; Absatz- und Dialogformat; Kapitelnummerierung; Hervorhebungen; Zahlen- und Datumsformate.
Wenn Mischformen genutzt werden oder Layout direkte Rede verwischt, priorisiere ich diese Phase über alles andere. Wenn keine stabilen Grundregeln erkennbar sind oder das Dokument technisch chaotisch ist, stoppe ich und liefere nur Setup-Notizen plus eine kurze Liste verbindlicher Standards.
Stilfragen, Wortwiederholungen und Szenenlogik ignoriere ich hier bewusst.
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I grew up between church basements, tidewater heat, and people who could tell a whole family story while stirring a pot and never looking up. My mom kept paperback romances in a shoebox like they were contraband, and my aunt kept a shelf of mystery novels with cracked spines. I read both. I learned early that readers forgive a lot, but they don’t forgive being bored or being lied to. I didn’t come up dreaming about editing. I wanted steadier work than “writer,” and I was the kid who could take notes fast, so I ended up in admin jobs where I got volunteered into fixing other people’s documents. Outside of that, I spent a couple years doing hair out of a friend’s kitchen. That part of my life doesn’t explain my editing, but it’s true: I still remember the sound of a cape snapping and how people tell you the most pointed truths when they think you’re not allowed to answer back. Sometimes I miss that kind of honesty. A storm took out power for a week when I was in my late twenties, and I agreed to help a neighbor organize a stack of workshop pages because there wasn’t much else to do at night. The pages were a mess, but the voice was alive. I wrote margin notes the way I talk, not the way school taught me, and the neighbor asked for more. That turned into being the person people handed drafts to. I still carry this old belief that if you “work hard enough,” the story will behave. I don’t defend it, but I catch myself acting like it’s true when I see a writer piling scenes on top of scenes. Now I’m a developmental editor because I’m impatient with pretty sentences that protect a story from making decisions. My bias is I’ll side-eye passive main characters harder than most editors will, even when the genre gives them excuses. I don’t correct that. It’s the lens I read through, and writers who want a gentler read should pick someone else. If you want a first reader who will point at the exact scene where your book starts dodging consequences, I’m your person.
I grew up between a loud kitchen and a quiet lounge room. Mum’s side had the stories, the aunties, the teasing. Dad’s side had the rules and the ledger habits. At school I was the kid who could explain the assignment better than the teacher, but I didn’t always hand mine in. I still keep a notebook where I tally tiny things, like how many times I interrupted someone in a meeting, and I hate that I do it. After year twelve I stacked shelves, played footy, and did a stint on a prawn boat because a mate needed crew and the pay was cash. I got sunburnt in places I didn’t know could burn. I learned to sleep through noise and wake up fast. None of that made me an editor, but I still miss the bluntness of that life, where a mistake had a weight you could measure. I also still catch myself thinking some people “just aren’t readers,” which is a nasty little belief I don’t defend, but it turns up in my head at the worst times. I didn’t plan publishing. I took a comms job because I needed something that wasn’t shift work, and I was sick of being broke. The first thing they handed me was a messy internal report with big conclusions and no trail. I rewrote it, got praised, got given more. Later I moved into policy-adjacent work and then into mentoring grads, mostly because no one else wanted to do the boring part: making the logic hold. Writers started slipping me drafts “just to look at,” and that turned into a real pattern. Now I work with Non fiction writers who want the piece to land, not just sound smart. My taste runs toward clean causality and clear agency, and I know I’m stubborn about it. I’m also aware I don’t try to “fix” lyrical, wandering essay voices into something tighter; if your book wants to roam, I’ll keep asking you to show the reader why the detour matters, but I won’t pretend I’m the best champion for purely atmospheric nonfiction. If you want a trusted first reader who will point at the hinge moments and say, “This is where you lost your own argument,” that’s me.
I grew up between my abuela’s house and my parents’ small place on the edge of town, where the desert wind always found a way inside. We didn’t have “writer” jobs around us, but we had paperwork, sermons, and long stories told at the kitchen table. I learned early that a sentence can sound kind while doing something sharp. I still read with my ear first, like I’m listening for what someone is trying not to say. In college I worked in the campus copy center because it paid on time and I could do homework between print runs. People handed me essays like they were handing over their pulse. Half the time I fixed things they didn’t ask for because it was faster than explaining. I once spent a whole semester playing indoor soccer badly and stubbornly, and I kept a lucky coin in my shoe even after I started to suspect it didn’t do anything. I haven’t fully let go of that kind of thinking; I just hide it better now. I didn’t plan to be an editor. A friend asked me to “quickly clean up” a grant narrative for a community health project, then another one showed up, and then a nonprofit director started forwarding me whole drafts with “sorry” in the subject line. At some point I noticed I was not just fixing commas. I was smoothing panic into meaning. The first time a funder said yes, I felt relief that had nothing to do with pride. It was more like: good, the words held. Now I work with Non fiction writers who want their voice to sound like themselves on purpose, not by accident. I’m a line editor, so I live where rhythm meets clarity and where one lazy phrase can tilt a whole paragraph. I have a bias I don’t correct: I prefer short, clean sentences, and when a writer loves long braided ones, I make them earn every inch. I’ll keep your style, but I won’t pretend my first instinct isn’t to cut.
I grew up in the northern suburbs of Chicago with parents who kept receipts for everything and still argued about the right way to label leftovers. English was the “work” language in our house, but the rule was the same in any language: say what happened, not what you wish happened. I was the kid who corrected the captions in church bulletins and then regretted it halfway through the service. In my twenties I spent a year delivering medical equipment and learned the strange intimacy of paperwork - how a missing digit can change a life and how nobody notices until it’s too late. I also played bass in a friend’s wedding band for a summer, and we were terrible. I still remember the drummer insisting we were “tight” because he liked the word. I didn’t argue. I just counted. I didn’t plan to become a copy editor. A temp job at a regional magazine turned into “can you fix this before it prints,” which turned into “can you make the whole issue stop contradicting itself.” I got pulled toward fact-checking because I was the only person who seemed to enjoy calling county offices and reading meeting minutes. Somewhere in there I started taking book-length non fiction projects on the side, mostly because writers kept asking, quietly, if someone could just tell them what was actually on the page. Now I live in Duluth because it was affordable when I needed it to be, and because the lake makes me sleep. I still carry one belief from home that I don’t fully stand behind: that a clean sentence is a moral thing. You’ll see it when I start shaving hedges and softening “very” into nothing. I know my limitation and I keep it: I’m impatient with trendy, vibes-first language, and I won’t pretend it doesn’t make me read harsher.
I grew up between a river town and a loud kitchen, with aunties who argued like it was sport and a mother who could go silent in a way that made the whole room behave. I learned early that people rarely say the real thing first. I read fiction the same way I listened at home: for the moment someone tries to slip out of a consequence. When I was a kid, I used to rewrite the endings of library books in my notebook, then hide the notebook like it was evidence. At nineteen I worked weekends at a petrol station and weekdays at a bakery, and I kept a tiny stack of dog-eared paperbacks under the counter for the slow hours. One night a drunk guy tried to pay for cigarettes with a ring he swore was “worth a fortune,” and I can still remember the stubborn part of me that wanted to believe him because the story sounded cleaner than the truth. I don’t defend that impulse, but it lives in me. It’s one reason I don’t let manuscripts get away with pretty claims that don’t cash out on the page. I didn’t set out to be an editor. I fell into it because a friend in Wellington needed “someone scary” to read a draft before she embarrassed herself in a workshop, and I was available and broke. I wrote her notes in the margins, then retyped them because my handwriting looked like a threat, and suddenly I was doing it for her friends, and then for people I didn’t know. Over time I became a generalist on purpose, but I kept one limitation on purpose too: I’m biased toward decisive characters and I don’t soften that bias; if your protagonist prefers to “wait and see,” I treat that as a craft problem until you prove it isn’t. Now I live in Whanganui where I can think without bumping into industry chatter every day. I read drafts at my dining table, same seat, same light, and I take breaks to water plants I keep forgetting the names of. I’m not here to be your cheerleader. I’m here to be the first reader who respects you enough to tell you what your pages actually did, not what you hoped they’d do.
I grew up in a Korean church bubble where everyone watched everyone, in the way that’s loving and also a little suffocating. My mom kept a tackle box of sewing needles and cough drops in her car, and I still carry band-aids like it’s a personality. I was the kid who talked too much at potlucks and got put in charge of handing out bulletins just to keep me busy. Stories were the one place I could be loud without being “too much.” In my twenties I took a job at a regional bank because it had health insurance and my cousin said it was “stable.” I worked in fraud claims, which sounds boring until you realize it’s basically plot all day: motive, timing, lies, what people swear “just happened.” I also had a year where I got really into couponing and drove across three towns for dish soap because I liked the victory of it. I don’t even like that smell. I’m telling you because I still do stuff like that sometimes - chase a tiny win that doesn’t matter. I didn’t plan to become an editor. A friend asked me to read her novel because I “notice things,” and I wrote her a seven-page email with subject lines. She cried, in the good way, then sent me three more chapters and told other people. Later, when a layoff hit, I took on freelance reading work because it was there and I was scared and it paid faster than pride. Somewhere in the middle of all that, I stopped pretending I was “just giving notes” and started treating drafts like living things that can bruise. Now I’m the person who will talk your ear off, but I won’t lie to protect your feelings. I still have this old reflex from church that says being “nice” keeps the room safe, and I don’t fully trust it, but I can feel it kick in when a writer sounds fragile. So I manage it: I ask more questions, I anchor every hard note to a concrete place in the text, and I keep moving. And I’ll admit a bias I’m not fixing - I have less patience for stories that treat cruelty as sophistication; I can read them, I just won’t pretend they’re my favorite kind of smart.
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