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For the confused author/editor: Style sheets vs Style guides
What the hell is a style sheet? Well, in computer lingo, it’s CSS or a cascading style sheet which tells you what everything on every HTML page of your website looks like design wise. It’s supposed to make it more efficient to create and design websites. But that’s not what you mean right? No, it’s not. Say you are an author (fiction, non-fiction, corporate, government, whatever) and you send a document (your precious, your boss’ precious and so on) to an editor. And the editor sends the document back and a few others, one of which is this weird combination of the alphabet and square boxes. That little document is…
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Freelancing Friday: Five common grammar mistakes
As an editor, I see grammar/spelling/style mistakes and errors all the time in everyone’s work. Everyone’s work. Some of the editing work I do is for the Centre for Policy Development in Australia — they have a journal called Insight for which a lot of policy makers and academics write articles about how to create government policy on all sorts of subjects. What is surprising is that even academics make a ton of mistakes and that most of those mistakes are the same basic ones that other people make. So here are the most common ones and how to avoid them. We all have to deal with written communication so…
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Things You Should Know About Being A Writer: Part 1:
Marisa Wikramanayake starts a list of things every writer needs to know but isn't always told and starts posting them in sets of five points or tips each. This is the first post with the first five tips on writing, reading, experiencing, expression and practice.
