by OgVmUoy8D9 | Feb 23, 2021 | Communications, Editing
One thing I rely on for every one of my clients is the style guide: a simple document that outlines spelling and grammatical choices or preferences for that individual or business. Any time I take on a new client, the first thing I do is create a style guide, noting...
by OgVmUoy8D9 | Feb 3, 2021 | Editing, homepage
Gender stereotyping occurs in fiction when a writer either depicts all of one gender the same or adheres to gender conventions that are no longer relevant. Not all women like to shop, wear dresses, and colour their hair. Women can be also be jerks, criminals, and...
by OgVmUoy8D9 | Jan 20, 2021 | Communications, homepage
Our world is a diverse place, and the language we use reflects that. I am blessed that the people in my life appreciate this diversity and see it for what it is: a thing of beauty. But with diversity comes cultural interpretation of various words, and, as a white...
by OgVmUoy8D9 | Jan 19, 2021 | Communications, Editing
In The Editor’s Companion, author Steve Dunham quotes copyeditor for the Sun newspaper, John McIntyre: One of the unexamined assumptions of the War on Editing is that readers, comfortable with the lack of editing standards on the Internet, would be fine with...
by OgVmUoy8D9 | Jan 18, 2021 | Editing
I just finished an amazing book…I think you would love it. Oh? Who was the editor? You never hear this in conversation, do you? Your average fan never asks an author who his or her editor is. They ask things like Is this your first novel? or Where did the story idea...
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