Writing 101: Memoirs and Holidays
Holidays with family and friends can be the perfect time to observe people, retell family stories, and share (or at least compare)...
Editing 101: When Editors and Authors Collide
One of the strange things about working as a freelance editor in the digital world is that you seldom (if ever) meet the authors you're...
Editing 101: If the Shoe *Doesn't* Fit
I saw something posted on social media, recently, that asked "If Cinderella's shoe was a perfect fit, why did it fall off?" It's an...
Bad, Spellcheck! Bad! (aka sleeping on the job)
I've been working on a manuscript for the past few weeks that has had some, shall we say, "challenges" when it comes to punctuation....
Editing 101: I Am Not a "That" (and neither are you)
All of us have our pet peeves. They range from "people who drive slowly in the fast lane" to "flowers that only bloom during the one week...
Editing 101: The Musicality of Words
I truly love how words sound. I love the word serendipity, which makes me think of sudden joy. And the word ephemeral makes me...
Proofreading 101: When Your Text Gets Graphic(s)
I know I've mentioned many times that Spellcheck should be considered a "frenemy" because it doesn't always catch obvious errors....
Editing 101: Drawing an Editorial Map
As an editor, I spend a lot of time trying to coach authors down the paths I think they should take. I also try to nudge them away from...
Editing 101: The Case of the Traveling Case
Sometimes a misplaced modifier (those words or phrases that are supposed to talk about one thing, but seem to talk about another) are...
Editing 101: Should I Quote You on That?
We've talked about this kind of thing before: the facetiously placed quotation marks that cause us to question what we're reading. With...
