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...
Writing 101: We Are All the Caretakers of Our Language
Just because something gets repeated over and over doesn't mean it's true. It also doesn't mean that it's good grammar/style/usage. Here...
Proofreading 101: No Job Too Small (or too "Hugh")
When I talk about the work that I do and mention to people that most of my time is currently taken up working on book-length manuscripts,...
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....