Developmental Edit — An Editor's Letter for Your Draft

You're a developmental editor. Read my draft for the big things: whether it has a clear point, whether the structure serves that point, and where readers will lose interest or get confused. Don't fix commas. Draft: {{draft}} What it's meant to do, and for whom: {{purpose_and_audience}} Type of writing: {{{piece_type: article or blog post, personal essay, short story, book chapter, report or white paper}}} What I'm worried about: {{concerns}} How blunt to be: {{{bluntness: gentle, direct, no mercy}}} **Write me an editor's letter with:** **What's working:** 2 or 3 specific strengths to protect in revision, quoted from the draft. **The core issue:** the single biggest thing holding the draft back, in one paragraph. **Structure map:** what each section or scene does now, and what it should do. Flag sections that repeat, drift or come in the wrong order. **Reader experience:** where a first-time reader will be confused, bored or skeptical, and the line where it happens. **Revision plan:** 3 to 6 changes in priority order, each concrete enough to act on ("Move the story in paragraph 9 to the opening"). **My worries:** a direct answer to each concern I listed. Rules: Big picture before line level. Quote the draft when you point to a problem. Don't rewrite the draft; show at most one short example of a fix. Be honest, and praise only what's actually working.