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Hi, my name is Bethany Stahl. I'm  a full time author and illustrator,   and today we are going to be talking about editors  and what advice you should actually take from   them and what advice you should ignore. So before we get started, I just want to say   if you are looking for more in depth behind  the scenes, tips, tricks, documents and more,   or you'd like to have a one on one  conversation with me and ask me questions.   Go over to patreon.com/bethanystahl where  you will be able to do that. So editors,   the people we love and need, but also  I feel like a lot of us get a little   bit of a grudge against them because they're  the ones picking apart our beloved work.   But you have to remember editors are only there  to help you. And I've said this before and I will   continue to say it that editors are there for  you. They are not there to make you feel bad   they are not there to tear your work apart  and change it into something else.   They are there to make your work as polished as  possible, so you have the best product available   in saying that editors are also human and they may  make mistakes. They may miss something so they are   also not perfect, just like we are not perfect. OK, so don't think that if you hire an editor,   your manuscript is going to be completely perfect  and nobody can ever complain about anything in it,   ever, because that's just not true. So let's  look at the different types of editing.   And we're going to talk about what you should  take from the editors at each point. Now,   before diving into this, I do want to say this  is purely my opinion and purely how I personally   go about dealing with critique and feedback. This may be completely different for you, so   of course, this is what I do, but this  is not necessarily what you have to do.   So first, you may be getting a developmental  critique, so a developmental critique is   somebody who is going to read through your  entire story and fix big issue problems.   So for children's books, this may be something  like making sure the problem is addressed,   making sure the lesson may be clear, making  sure the story line does cover what you want to   in such a short period of time and making  sure all those little dots connect.   So I know children's books. We're  working with a very small word count.   And with that small word count, we have to  tell an entire story in that period of time.   So developmental editors are typically great  with helping figure out big picture problems.   Now this being said, developmental editing is  one of the most opinionated forms of editing.   That means this isn't necessarily advice  that is following any grammatical rules,   any set in stone rules. This is more knowledge  of stories, and this is what...