How I Travelled Through Europe Running My Business From a Laptop
I’ve recently returned to the UK after travelling around Europe for nine months while still running my business, working from my...
Read moreI started my editing business over ten years ago. This is the first time I’ve ever taken some extended time away from it. Which feels weird. Lots of people go freelance because they’ve had children and they need the flexibility. Instead, I went freelance simpl...
Read moreI’ve recently returned to the UK after travelling around Europe for nine months while still running my business, working from my...
Read moreThe other day, I was trying to work out the author’s meaning behind a particularly confusing sentence. This manuscript, I said t...
Read moreI shouldn’t have checked my inbox that evening. ‘How dare you,’ wrote the client. ‘Never in all my professional life have I been treat...
Read moreAt the time of writing this, I’m currently running my editing business while travelling around Europe. I’ve been doing so ...
Read moreAn author recently told me they were struggling to know whether they were creating enough conflict in their novel-in-progress. Did I h...
Read moreSo, you’ve finished writing your novel and have redrafted it and edited it as best you can. The first thing you should do at this poin...
Read moreAmerican poet Emily Dickinson once wrote: ‘Tell the truth, but tell it slant.’ Following this advice can bring vividness and originali...
Read moreYou may not know this about me, but I’m both an editor and a writer. And a couple of years ago, I had a serious crisis of confidence. ...
Read moreYou probably envision editors rolling around in bank notes, laughing, after spending a short afternoon running a quick spell check on ...
Read moreHere are my top insights from attending The Society for Editors and Proofreaders’ 25th Annual Conference. This is the ...
Read moreIt may be your book, but guess what? It isn’t your story. It’s fun to be the god of your own fictional world. But when it comes to the...
Read moreI see so many writers commit this writing sin: over-explaining. They tell their reader every detail, elbow in every piece of backstory...
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