Editorial Services - Clancy Tripp

If you’re interested in preparing a piece of creative writing for publication (prose, creative nonfiction, fiction, short stories, essays, poetry, etc) or for MFA/Creative Writing PhD applications, please get in touch as I’d love to help you polish it up!

I can help you edit with an eye toward:

· Making your writing grab attention & stand out among other talented writers or applicants

· Creating unique and memorable characters

· Maintaining pacing and clarity

· Starting and finishing strong

· Avoiding overdone or cliche elements

· Grammatically correct and polished products

Services I Offer:

Developmental Editing:

Includes a letter of 1-2 (single-spaced) pages articulating strengths, structural changes, broad edits. This level of editing is appropriate for broader drafting/revising/structural edits.

Copy Editing & Line Editing:

Includes marginal/comments suggestions + grammar/style corrections in-line. This level of editing is appropriate for polishing a piece of work which does not require major structural edits.

Developmental, Copy, and Line Editing:

Includes thorough marginal comments & suggestions, in-line edits/corrections, + broader letter w/ suggestions. Give your work the full treatment!

MFA/Creative Writing PhD Coaching:

If you’d like to (virtually) meet (whether just once or several times!) to talk through the application process and how you might best position yourself and your work, this is a great option.

MFA/Creative Writing PhD Portfolio Review:

I offer in-depth feedback (both line edits and overall/structural feedback in written form) on your fiction or nonfiction creative writing sample.

This includes:

· full edits & feedback on your entire writing sample

· full edits & feedback on your personal statement

· edits/advice on your CV or resume

· a holistic review in written form (e.g. What are your portfolio’s strengths and weaknesses? What would I advise you to focus your attention on? Do elements in your sample need re-ordering? Are there any red flags?)

Testimonials

Clancy was thorough, encouraging, offered constructive suggestions. I was very impressed by how much feedback she offered in so short a turnaround time. I would love love love to work with Clancy again. Excellent experience.

As a second-language writer, I recommend the premium service. I learned a lot and got a lot of encouragement, which I tried to forget in case of enormous depression, lol. But she was truly a person reading every line of your story, her revisions on my work make me have confidence in human editing. A thank-you card for the safety guard is okay to use AI, but if you are serious about this piece of writing, Clancy is a no-brainer choice. Except for line-to-line edits, Clancy also wrote final comments and an overall summary of how to improve the work according to academic standards.

Very professional and detailed editing, met my expectations, and provided excellent suggestions. Communication was very smooth. Thank you very much~

Clancy’s feedback was incredibly thorough, encouraging and thoughtful! I’m amazed at all the suggestions, detailed comments about individual lines, plus general suggestions on the work overall. The super fast turn around was impressive too. Would absolutely recommend!

Clancy continues to be the GOAT. She is enthusiastic about what is working in your story and uplifting in her critiques. Also, her delivery time is insane for how detailed and in-depth her comments are. I highly recommend her editing service!

Great comments and very helpful feedback, was a joy to work with her! Everything was clearly labelled and I think she did a good job of balancing being honest without being overly harsh. I would absolutely recommend her to anyone in-need of clear and helpful proofreading and editing.

Clancy provided thoughtful, encouraging, and oftentimes amusing feedback to my short story and novel excerpts, as well as provided feasible solutions to many of the issues she pointed out. I can tell she took her time with my work. I highly recommend her editing service!