Or, Cultivating Beta Reading to Your Advantage as an Author As if tracking the intricate phases of manuscript critiques, levels of editing, and getting a manuscript ready for a proofreader wasn’t complicated enough, there’s another term to familiarize yourself with as an author: beta reading. You may be aware that it’s one of the intricate …
If you’ve browsed my website, know me, or have worked with me, you know that I’m committed to assisting my clients find their own clients through their eco-conscious visions and values—not through greenwashing tactics. But how much have you paused to think about greenwashing? In today’s eco-conscious world, consumers are increasingly prioritizing sustainability when making …
Introduction: What is The Chicago Manual of Style and who uses it? Published by the University of Chicago Press, The Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS or sometimes just Chicago) is traditionally an academic guide that also has wide-ranging application in publishing among academic and nonacademic books, in the business world, and on the web. Many editing and proofreading companies revert …
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Research citations are unavoidable for research writers. Although they are among the most important elements of research writing and presentations, they are often also among the most neglected. These oversights are often the result of prioritizing the writing (articles and books) along with the visual and stylistic elements (presentations) over the sources of information and …
This month’s post is for writers of blogs and newsletters and other social media copy. If you’ve researched web copy & content, you’ve likely encountered the term evergreen content, which is vital to a website’s search engine optimization (SEO). What does it mean? Essentially, evergreen content means content that doesn’t easily go out of date. Web …
Describing my website revisions and reflecting on the journaling process.
Understanding the lingo of writing and editing professionals Perhaps you’ve just finished an e-book or you are launching a new business. You want to be sure you are presenting a professional image; that merits the help of a professional in the writing & editing field. So, you start looking for editors… of which there seem …
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Sometimes–even for me, an avid journaler who is essentially an advocate for journaling — the journaling practice gets a little too unwieldy. A little too much wallowing, obsessive thought patterning, and unresolvable (without additional information) analysis and guesswork. I ask myself now and then, “Is journaling really a help to my stress levels and stress …
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As we try to understand the past, we try to understand ourselves in relation to the past. Steven Marcus, The Other Victorians (quoted in Steffen Hantke’s “Difference Engines and Other Infernal Devices: History According to Steampunk.”) You know that sense of not quite being able to move on from the past? For those of us who frequently …
