Tag: Editing
By Michele Callaghan, Manuscript Editing Ancient Greeks sometimes wrote as the plow goes, first right to left and then left to right—with no spaces between words. Somewhere along the line someone had the great idea that adding space to separate words would aid in readability. Maybe it was when writing went from being a series…
By Michele Callaghan, manuscript editor I was in elementary school when I first learned about nouns. The teacher said that a noun was a person, place, or thing. Flipping this around, you can say that people are nouns. You might think this is obvious, even in an era in which grammar has been sidelined to some…
By Michele Callaghan, manuscript editor I was in elementary school when I first learned about nouns. The teacher said that a noun was a person, place, or thing. Flipping this around, you can say that people are nouns. You might think this is obvious, even in an era in which grammar has been sidelined to some…
Guest post by Val Kells I firmly believe that if you work hard, invest fully in your goal, keep your nose clean, and mix it up with like-minded and similarly-driven people, good things are bound to happen. Yes, fate steps in now and again: a right turn here, a left turn there . . .…
Guest post by Val Kells I firmly believe that if you work hard, invest fully in your goal, keep your nose clean, and mix it up with like-minded and similarly-driven people, good things are bound to happen. Yes, fate steps in now and again: a right turn here, a left turn there . . .…
By Michele Callaghan, manuscript editor All too often people take a perfectly good idea and then use it for all sorts of occasions for which it doesn't apply. One example is having a right lane for slow drivers and a left one for fast drivers. This works well—most of the time—on the highway. But then…
By Michele Callaghan, manuscript editor Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. —Voltaire The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he’s one who asks the right questions. ―Claude Lévi-Strauss Anyone who raises kids, lives with a spouse or a roommate, or reads pop psych books knows that…
By Michele Callaghan, manuscript editor Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. —Voltaire The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he’s one who asks the right questions. ―Claude Lévi-Strauss Anyone who raises kids, lives with a spouse or a roommate, or reads pop psych books knows that…
By Michele Callaghan, manuscript editor I am breaking with my usual practice of offering commentary on the state of publishing or whatever else is on my mind. A part of speech that I have cared about since Mrs. Valerio’s eighth grade French class is in trouble: the pronoun. We English speakers are really lucky. Students…
By Michele Callaghan, manuscript editor I am breaking with my usual practice of offering commentary on the state of publishing or whatever else is on my mind. A part of speech that I have cared about since Mrs. Valerio’s eighth grade French class is in trouble: the pronoun. We English speakers are really lucky. Students…