by christine | Jan 30, 2022 | Editing, homepage, memoir
Like any significant project, it can be hard to know where to start when you sit down to write your memoir. First, you have what every writer in any genre faces: the technicalities of getting that story onto a page. But memoir writers have the added challenge of...
by christine | Feb 24, 2021 | Editing, homepage
You’re the product of all your experiences. This is a common expression—one you’ve likely heard before—but have you ever paused to consider its meaning? I mean really stop and think about its relevance to your own life? When I was a child, I was often told that I was...
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 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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