Editing Tip for the Day

Editing Tips Thursday

Sunday Grammar Tip

Editing

    It's true!!

Sunday Edifying Editing Edition

How Writing Works

    This is why I have no desire to be a writer.

Editing

    I do some pro bono editing and beta-reading on the side.  This is exactly what we're supposed to do.

Nitpicking

    For the record, there is no hyphen in "nitpicking".

Don't You Dare

    When editors have nightmares.

When Editors go Questing

Writing a Book

    I'm not an author - aspiring or otherwise - but I have a feeling these two graphs are quite accurate.

Just Desserts

    And for the record, the phrase is "Just deserts".  One 's' only.  Taken from the French word meaning "to deserve".  So sez Bill Bryson, and he should know.

    Except in the particular scenario shown above, of course.

The existential moment

    Yeah, I fell for it.  And I do editing.

Editing

    As a part-time editor, this is tearing me up inside.  And no, I didn't catch the extra "the" in the first balloon.

Grammar-itis

    Sadly, I suffer from this disease in real life. 

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