Editor’s Blog
Thoughts typed by a professional editor, book lover, and word nerd.
So You Want to Invent a Word for Your Book
Practical advice for writers coining new words, from the winner of the Editorial Freelancers Association’s Coin-a-Word contest!
What Freelancers Want You to Know
If you’re an indie author, you’ll need to hire a freelancer to help with your self-publishing goals. Here’s what freelancers want you to know about the process.
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.
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.