by christine | Apr 25, 2021 | Communications, homepage
This blog post can also be downloaded as a PDF guide here. Dialogue is a wonderful and effective way of breaking up long narrative, especially long descriptive chunks. It acts like fingers snapping—a signal to re-capture the reader’s attention and bring them back to...
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 | 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...
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