by marissa | Mar 14, 2012 | About Editing
Part of my work day: studying story-craft techniques under the hypnotizing gaze of this beast…
by marissa | Feb 4, 2012 | About Editing, Craft of Storytelling (Writing Techniques & Ideas)
Writing “in the moment” without pausing to review is a perfect way to create, because you don’t want the critical half of your brain self-consciously poking at the less-inhibited, imaginative half while it’s doing its thing. However, a side effect of...
by marissa | Jul 7, 2011 | About Editing
Copyeditors are not all evil grammar-monsters who spend their days hunting for typos just so they can terrify anyone who knows less about writing mechanics than they do. Good copyeditors know that context matters, and they know the difference between an author who is...
