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There are a few things I wish every writer knew about the editing process. In this blog post, I want to share these key insights with you to help you understand how to streamline the editing process and establish a strong working relationship with your editor. From booking in advance to recognising different editing types, let's explore what your copyeditor wishes you knew.

(7-minute read)

Take a look behind the scenes of the English language to discover the odd conventions of adjective order and ablaut reduplication.

(4-minute read)

As an editor, I see suboptimal words as little orange flags. The main cause of orange? Non-specificity. Use this simple trick to avoid vague language and keep your writing clean.

(5-minute read)

Australia writes itself. It’s a place where eucalypts in their childhood dance like silver. The yellow grass, drained of winter, stretches in the morning light. Cities in the south take milk from plants and paint it with coffee, whilst those in the north forget the time. Life collides at the coast; the water is pulled to the land, and the helpless are pulled to the water.

(3-minute read)

Something a little bit different (and nothing to do with writing or editing)!

It’s a fact that wild swimming is magic (in my opinion). I’m often asked how an outdoor swim should be undertaken, so I’ve decided to give the people what they want: a simple, step-by-step guide.

(23-minute read)

In this article, we’ll explore how Modern English relates to the languages spoken in England during the Middle Ages. We’ll also investigate where the words you use today might have placed you in the medieval feudal system; would you have been a Norman aristocrat or an Anglo-Saxon peasant?

(14-minute read)

This is not an article on how to avoid paying your editor, it’s a list of hacks for handing in a cleaner manuscript so as to avoid paying a professional for work you could have covered yourself. It will provide you with ten ways to spend less on editing without compromising on quality.

(8-minute read)

The women of Iran have been an inspiration and a wake-up call that screams, ‘Be the change you wish to see’. I want to see a world in which women have confidence and are not shamed and abused for it; a world where it's cool to make people feel good about themselves, no matter what they are or are not wearing. It should be normal to feel unapologetically liberated.