Becky GraceJan 252 min2-minute read2-minute reads: What is a style sheet?Your research into editing may have turned up references to something called a style sheet. This 2-minute read will tell you all you need...
Becky GraceJan 192 min2-minute read2-minute reads: My first draft is awful – should I just give up?No! Don't give up. Ask any writer and they will agree: the first draft is always rubbish. In the words of Terry Pratchett, 'the first...
Becky GraceJan 172 min2-minute read2-minute reads: Can you guarantee 100% accuracy in proofreading?You know when you're watching a police procedural on TV and the detective promises that he will find and return the missing uncle? Or...
Becky GraceJan 162 min2-minute read2-minute reads: Does an author have to accept every change an editor suggests?In short, no. You will always be the author of your own work. An editor's job isn't to change that, or to make you alter something...