Writing 101: Spellcheck Doublecheck (aka "No Job Is too Small to Need a Proofreader")
I know we've talked about the "frenemy" status of Spellcheck before, but I came across something this week that made me realize how...
Writing 101: Details - and Facts - Matter
We've all read a book where the author neglects to mention a crucial detail, right? This has happened to me when I've been reading along...
Writing 101: The Editing Month
I know that most people talk about the month of January as a month to start new things. Everyone wants to make resolutions to start...
Editing 101: Is "Now" Good for You? - quotation marks revisited
A few weeks ago, we talked about questionable usages of quotation marks, and how they can really lend themselves to making otherwise...
Writing 101: Rhetoric, aka "Word Choices Matter"
If you're like me, you've heard a lot of talk, lately, about all of the "political rhetoric" both pre- and post-election. And although...
Editing 101: Spellcheck Is Not Your Friend
We've talked about this before, but I found a great example of it recently, so I thought it was a topic worth a quick revisit. Spellcheck...
The Argument for Editorial Arguments
It seems somehow topical, as the current election season wears on, that we take some time to discuss the art of argument. Or possibly...
Rating Editing Rates
If you look at the websites of most editing service providers (including my own), you'll see that they either list a wide range of fee...
The Everywhereist Says It Better Than I Could (Which Is a Little Frustrating, Honestly)
I once told an author that he needed to include "more concrete and fewer roses" when writing a scene about his past. When we talked about...
How Editing Is Like Dyeing Your Beard - a (mostly) pictorial essay
When you finish your manuscript, because you've been working so closely on it for so long, you've probably become kind of blind to the...
