Editor’s Blog
Thoughts typed by a professional editor, book lover, linguistics enthusiast from the neighborhood coffee shop.
Keeping Zombies Out of Your Sentences
What are nominalizations and how are they making your writing unclear? This guide to spotting and correcting nominalizations, or zombie nouns, will help you craft sentences that are clearer, more impactful, and more interesting to read.
So You Need to Hire an Editor
All projects are different and may not follow the same path to publication; this guide is written to help authors and writers learn more about the resources and services available to them.
Create an Easy Outline with Word’s Styles Feature
Learn how to use the Styles tool to format chapter and section headings, review a customizable outline for your entire manuscript, and generate an automatic table of contents that links to different parts of the document.