Editing skills for beginners

Editing skills for beginners

When you’ve written a piece of copy the best person to edit it isn’t you! However, if you don’t have a handy editor around you’ll need to at least review it. To gain a little perspective leave it as long as possible after having written it, but...
Editing skills for beginners

Stylish publications!

There are disagreements about things like single quotes or double quotes, one space or two after a full stop, what case headlines should be in – and other punctuation and layout styles. Whoever is ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ – and most...
Editing skills for beginners

Spreading the word

We’ve already talked about posting your blog content in more than one place, but there’s another way to get your words in front of a wider audience. This is about placing the link to your blog in as many places as possible. There are a couple of tools that...
Editing skills for beginners

Creating consistent blogs

Many people say to me ‘I won’t be able to keep coming up with good content for my blogs’, it’s a perpetual challenge! However, there are a few tricks to generating good content. The first one is to have a dedicated brainstorming session. Get a...
Editing skills for beginners

Making one blog go further!

When you’ve written a good blog and posted it on your own blog – is that it? As the daughter of a thrifty Yorkshirewoman, I know how to make a little go a long way so I use one blog for many things. This isn’t the only way to do this, but it is a...