Yes, well, that's where I am with this post by Kory Stamper, whose blog I found today somehow. I know you're surprised that I would ever be angry about anything,…
But only if we can leverage our core competencies! It's been a long time, everyone. Have you missed me? Of course you have. I've been away for the past few…
Add to the list of things I didn't know: POSSLQ. What a great thing I learned today in the New York Times article about what to call those of us…
I've encountered my share of know-it-alls and fussbudgets in the editing (and writing) world, many of whom probably really believe they are doing God's work and making the world a…
I got to see Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" recently, and it was a dazzling film. Daniel Day-Lewis, of course, was incredible, but he had a great script to work with. Screenwriter…
I have taken (and given) many, many editing tests in my life, and one thing has become very clear to me: I will never be able to spell poinsettia. It…
In the past week or so, I've watched two episodes of "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno." It makes me ashamed a little, but it's not like I planned to…
I had a boss once who hated acronyms and abbreviations so much that he even discouraged us from using FBI. "Alphabet soup," he called it. I get it. It can…
Distributed Proofreaders is a site to "help ease the conversion of public domain books into e-books" in the mission of "preserving the literary history of the world in a freely…
I used to keep a sticky note at my desk called "Words I Hate." These were words that I would run across in the course of my editing that I,…