Styles Make Your Writing Better. Well, ok, they won’t make your writing better, but they make it a hell of a lot easier to format. Styles also make it a LOT easier if you change your mind and want to create a new look for your document. They’re also the editor’s friend, so if you…
Wondering how to use apostrophes? It doesn’t need to be complicated – here I’ll walk you through the damned apostrophe and how to use it. Should we just get rid of the apostrophe altogether? Sometimes I just think ‘get rid of it’. It’s a pain. Even those of us who work with words occasionally sit…
What do you need to do before submitting to a copy editor? Because what we do can be mystifying to authors, manuscripts come to copy editors in all shapes and sizes. Over the years I’ve had books that are damn near perfect, and others that needed a lot of TLC to bring them up to…