2022-12-31 15:45
2022 has been a really interesting year for me professionally. My role at Now Then magazine, where I was a community correspondent focusing on reporting on the LGBTQ+ and disability communit… Read More
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2022-04-13 12:15
I was recently invited onto the No Shame In My Name podcast. It’s a podcast I already listened to and I invited the host to take part in Global Comment’s Podcast Showcase, after… Read More
2022-04-04 08:30
Rob Drummond, Manchester Metropolitan University
He’s been called “punctuation’s answer to Banksy”. A self-styled grammar vigilante who spends his nights surreptitiou… Read More
2022-02-23 11:37
A couple of years ago, I started offering sensitivity reading for disability- and LGBT-related topics. I have worked on some fascinating manuscripts since then, including both fiction and no… Read More
2022-02-16 15:06
A few weeks ago, I wrote about conversion therapy for Now Then, the magazine where I am a community correspondent. I had been trying for several months to find a local case study and, in the… Read More
2022-01-04 09:17
Ten years ago, I embarked on a self-employment experiment. And I did it all “wrong”. First, I didn’t tell everyone to support my business as you’re supposed to; inste… Read More
2021-08-26 12:14
I was on Paulette Edwards’ show on BBC Radio Sheffield again, this time talking about the Paralympic Games and the visibility it gives to disabled people. There were a couple of other… Read More
2021-08-24 16:41
Claire Needs is a disabled local councillor but, because her council has now removed the option of attending meetings via Zoom, she is being excluded from participating in local democracy. I… Read More
2021-08-03 12:01
Last week, Shabaaz Mohammed invited me to be a guest on his intriguingly named podcast Crippled Stomp. Always keen to talk all things disability, I said yes.
We had a great chat about white… Read More
2021-07-26 08:08
I got an email yesterday inviting me to be an affiliate for a health product. By complete coincidence, the product promised to rid its gullible audience of a condition I actually have, so I… Read More
2021-07-20 16:55
Last week, I published an article with Now Then magazine about the strangeness of things becoming more accessible in many ways during the lockdowns, and the relentless accessibility checks I… Read More
2021-06-25 10:09
I discovered a website a few months ago that is proving to be pretty nifty when I need to really drill down on a particular word. OneLook.com lets you search for a word and gives you links t… Read More
2021-06-12 17:47
So I did my presentation on disability and gender-based violence for Festival of Debate and it went really well! It was great to have so many interested people attend and to be able to share… Read More
2021-05-11 16:17
Earlier this year, I presented a webinar called Deadly Intersections: Disability and Gender-Based Violence. It was really well-attended and the questions and discussion at the end showed me… Read More
2021-04-27 12:54
One of the reasons I work with words is that language is endlessly fascinating. From my degree in French to the podcasts I listen to and the books I read about the English language, there is… Read More
2021-03-22 09:17
I’m unapologetically addicted to podcasts. I listen to them constantly and have made several of my own (with a potential new one in the pipeline), and listening is currently my favouri… Read More
2021-03-05 17:15
I’m really excited to be a speaker for the Chartered Institute of Linguists.
At the webinar, I will be talking about proofreading and copywriting and, in particular, how they are relev… Read More
2021-02-04 21:23
I’m involved in the Women’s Equality Party and I am part of the comms team for my local branch. I’m also a member of the Disability and LGBTQI caucuses.
My dress is not a y… Read More
2021-01-18 08:45
Nobody needs another blog post about how weird 2020 was. Nor about how weird the start of 2021 has been already. But, in short, totally weird.
Now, onto the rest of it all.
What I’m up… Read More
2020-12-09 09:27
Last week, I was approached by Rebecca Wren, an aspiring writer. She was writing a university assignment about the career she wants to enter – writing – and wanted to ask me som… Read More
2020-12-01 10:07
I always forget to promote this, though I should. I published an extended essay that looked at the privilege of food snobs and how the reality of food and eating affects various groups. Food… Read More
2019-07-17 13:55
This was originally published on DisabledGo, which is now AccessAble. This article does not seem to be online since that change so I am reproducing it here.
The sun is shining, there a… Read More
2019-05-20 08:57
When B2B or B2C clients are looking for a freelancer to write blog posts for them, they don’t just want a couple of one-off articles. Generally, they want one or two a week on an… Read More
2019-04-01 17:51
I sometimes wonder whether I should populate my blog with updates on how work is going. After all, it gives readers and potential clients an idea of what I’m up to.
So, I’m givi… Read More
2018-11-12 09:21
This weekend marks the date when Equal Pay Day takes place: it is used to signify the last day of the year that a woman would receive pay, when taking the gender pay-gap into account.
Enjoy… Read More
2018-08-02 09:25
More and more, I see that my clients are looking for longer-form content for their blogs. Whereas 500-word posts used to be the norm, now clients are asking me to write content that is 1,500… Read More
2018-02-05 17:11
“You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere.” – Lee Iacocca
Everybody loves a discount and, if you… Read More
2017-09-26 10:19
Tattoos can be beautiful, glorious representations of art or complex emotions, carefully applied to our skin by specialists who take pride in their art.
They can also be drunken mistakes ca… Read More
2017-08-29 09:04
I spend so much of my life creating content for other people’s websites that I frequently neglect my own. Weeds start to grow and I put post and page ideas on a list that is ignored f… Read More
2017-04-07 11:59
After all the fun we had making the A Little Bird Told Me podcast, when Lorrie then went on maternity leave, I felt a podcast-shaped hole in my life. So I set up Freelance Confidence wh… Read More
2017-04-06 18:24
This article was originally published on The Independent in August 2012
An ‘inspirational’ photo has been making its way around Twitter and Facebook. The photograph is of Oscar P… Read More
2016-12-20 10:37
I’ve lost count of the number of times somebody has approached me about my writing services. They complain that they hired somebody to do this work already but, well, it was awful and… Read More
2015-10-16 15:59
An unfortunate video from BBC News demonstrates the importance of full stops.
Need a proofreader?
The post This is why punctuation is important appeared first on Philippa Writes.
No relate… Read More
2015-09-17 11:32
As a writer, I do a combination of commercial content creation and journalism.
As part of the commercial work, I write press releases for businesses that want to gain some press attent… Read More
2015-05-04 09:23
In recent weeks, I have appeared on two disability-related radio shows.
Firstly, I spoke on Contact, a Canadian radio show, about an article I wrote on the weird phenomenon of non-disabled… Read More
2015-04-16 19:06
When applying for a job, it is vital to make a good impression. Most openings have many applicants, so you need to stand out from the crowd.
I proofread a lot of CVs, resumes and covering l… Read More
2015-03-19 19:16
When I create content for clients, I offer to provide that content to them in the way that suits them best. Sometimes, that is a Microsoft Word or Open Office file or a Google Doc, a… Read More
2014-12-22 09:50
So many freelance writers feel trapped in the under-paying, soul-destroying ‘race to the bottom’ freelancing sites and content mills.
I have escaped from that depressing hole, an… Read More
2014-12-19 09:10
Photo credit: Ritesh Nayak
One of the questions I get asked the most by fellow freelancers is how they can escape from writing for mass freelancing sites with low pay and a ‘… Read More
2014-12-10 12:17
Thanks to this post from Convince and Convert, I’ve discovered a video that made me laugh like a drain.
If you ever wondered what the outdated practice of keyword stuffing would l… Read More
2014-11-21 10:30
Bookshelf (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
You may remember Mridu Khullar Relph who I interviewed on the podcast recently. Well, she’s written a book. And it’s really good.
Full disclos… Read More
2014-10-23 16:31
I read Show Your Work by Austin Kleon a few months ago but, despite my best intentions, I keep forgetting to actually show my work. I set up a Pinterest board for the purpose but it’s… Read More
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