Online has a variety of avenues for you to explore, and they each hold their own benefits and downsides. But first, let’s discuss what you should be searching for. In theory, you could search “editor for hire” and you’d get loads of results.

You’ve made it to a point in your writing where you think it’s time to get some fresh eyes on it. This might be your first draft and you want to work the kinks out with a large scale, big-changes edit, or it might be your nearly final draft, and you just want someone to look for typos and missing (or extra) commas; we all know how they like to weasel their own way in and out of our writing.

You quickly realize that there are a lot more types of editing than you thought and suddenly feel overwhelmed. “What type of writing is for me?”