2021-03-01 21:39
I won't be renaming the blog, yet, but I am adjusting the focus to writing and progress in writing.I have a few things in progress now.I hope everyone is doing well at this stressful time. R… Read More
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This blog concerns copyediting and other subjects connected with writing, reading, and communication in general. There will be editing and writing samples posted, including writing samples in the form of reviews of non-fiction books, including books on writing, and also some fiction.
2020-02-27 22:58
Yes, I need to get back to this on at least a weekly basis 'cause hey it's still here on the 'net!!!I hope everybody's doing well.I've got a regular telecommuting job plus a couple of freela… Read More
2015-05-13 18:31
With regret I read yesterday of the passing of William Zinsser. http://news.yahoo.com/william-zinsser-author-writing-well-dies-92-231227916.html;_ylt=A0LEV0Lhl1NVmLIAS7hXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzbW… Read More
2015-01-14 19:59
Would it actually be possible for product designers to design products that would be actually be easy to use or even usable for ordinary people? I'm looking at you, bandage designers an… Read More
2014-10-28 23:14
Word software is . . . evil. Seriously. It is so "my way or the highway" and so difficult to use that it's downright evil. I know that's odd to say and reactionary, but still . . . .Some peo… Read More
2014-09-22 01:02
Don't trust anybody. Because you can't trust anybody.Everybody is going to jerk you over.You can't do anything right.You never ask enough questions Read More
2014-09-18 22:18
He and I are like ideology: he and I have no history.Don't mention this or that or what or who we watched or thought or talked.What was mass or substance did not mean wh… Read More
2014-06-24 20:02
Profile PicThinner more so lookSurprising less than inner changeTear spring emptySere-rendered sourceBetrayer's carve in my heart Read More
2014-06-10 15:37
So . . . the governor goes on trips to get businesses to come to the state. What's wrong with investing in businesses begun by people born here? Are we not talented? He's from here too. Is i… Read More
2014-05-22 05:16
StocksMoney down a rat holeKicks get fromWithholding informationHelp themselvesAnd no one else Read More
2014-05-06 22:32
City shamedWeapon-wagging saltinesUtter protestation of innocenceScaring the innocentWho just want to be left alone to do their jobs and say"Saltines and other anti-life garden implements (H… Read More
2014-04-10 21:11
Ok, would it just be too nerve-strainingly difficult for whoever writes stock proxy statements to actually write in a way that general audience member investors would be able to un… Read More
2014-01-07 02:38
Some things are just too complicated and most people don't care Read More
2014-01-06 15:55
Ok why is the MLA having a steampunk panel? The steampunk crowd's appropriation of a perjorative-geek-reinforces it and is wearisome just like the other anti-intellectuals are… Read More
2014-01-04 05:32
Someone else who uses film!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! From what the article says, their kids like looking at the pics now but I know they'll value 'em more… Read More
2013-12-21 15:29
Favorite Christmas Music"Oh Holy Night""Hodie" by Vaughan Williams"I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas""We Need A Little Christmas" Read More
2013-11-28 18:57
"Action plan" is redundant; action is inherent in the word plan."Impactful" is not a word; it is slang and an example of lazy thinking. The words "effective" and "influential" are corre… Read More
2013-11-13 16:53
icopyediting's aphorisms . . . things I wrote in my journal or said in conversation with verious people:"Pinch hitters are for baseball, not healthcare!""Capitalism is the best economic syst… Read More
2013-10-05 22:14
Profile Pic Playlist"Somebody That I Used to Know""You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone""You Don't Know A Thing About Me""We Could Have Had It All""Heartbreaker""What Hurts The Most""Who Knew?… Read More
2013-07-30 20:16
Copyediting today! Some for work and some for the Lower School page of The Oakridge School site. Fun! Read More
2013-07-20 03:30
35mm film pics I took in the '80s and '90s and had developed at Eckerd's. Note Eckerd's quality. Read More
2013-03-17 04:42
March 16, 2013A version of this appeared last year on tellyspotting.org. Here's the original . . . . You know you’re a Britcom fan when . . .You see a chocolate fountain and want… Read More
2013-03-09 04:58
Copyediting and the AudienceOne thing you need to keep in mind when copyediting is the audience of the piece that you are editing. Is it a piece for anyone? Or is it targeted… Read More
2013-03-02 02:03
It's back to the blog! I've decided to make time for it again.I'm not sure that I'll post more than once a week, though, at least for a while.And I'm not going to focus on copyediting. I sti… Read More
2010-05-10 19:24
Ok someone give me something to copyedit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I have not gotten to do any poor grammar correcting, punctuation fixing, sentence unscrambling, language awareness adjusti… Read More
2010-04-20 01:49
Style is what distinguishes one piece of writing from another, but more especially one writer from another. Henry David Thoreau's style is different from Henry James' which is yet again diff… Read More
2010-04-16 04:21
Clutter is simply too many words for the meaning. Sometimes it comes in the form of too many overused expressions, or passive verbs, or too many prepositional phrases, or garbled sentence st… Read More
