Louise Marley has a trenchant post on the copy editor’s craft on Red Room, the writing site she blogs for, and let me add hear hear! to her words. Copy editors are often unsung heroes in the publishing world. And I say this not only because I’ve been a copy editor, but because the one [...]
It occurred to me I hadn’t done one of these in a while. Sorry about that. This installment is a simple one, but it came to mind because one of the students at the workshop was having difficulty with it. A poorly punctuated manuscript will be thrown out by an editor ASAP. No one will [...]
If you’ve been listening to NPR today you know that The Elements of Style is 50 years old. This is the book commonly referred to as Strunk & White after its authors, William Strunk and E.B. White (Stuart Little, The Trumpet of the Swan, Charlotte’s Web). Writers don’t need much — in fact, a case [...]