editing

The content doctor will listen to you now

6th April 2023 | Posted in Web content

One of the benefits of not quite the right prescription for your lenses is that you can read things that weren’t actually there. It can be amusing. Sometimes it’s useful. This morning I came across someone describing themselves as a text doctor. Only that’s not what they had written – they were a text neighbour. […]

Thank goodness for Mrs Sweet, Mrs Hooper and the staffroom in general

21st May 2020 | Posted in Editing, Marketing communications, Website

I’ve been thinking of late how much I owe to the lessons at school that I didn’t really appreciate at the time. During lockdown I’ve reacquainted myself with my exceedingly dusty sewing machine. Quite honestly, if I hadn’t been taught by the terrifying Mrs Sweet about how to thread up the machine (and why are […]

Lessons in e-book writing

20th March 2012 | Posted in Marketing communications

So a group of us with small business skills have got together to write an e-book. (See my previous post on why and how.) I volunteered for role of editor. Why? Because I used to be the editor of a magazine way back when print was king, and I know about project managing collections of articles and […]