📈 A positive of lockdown: I’ve increased my daily #editing word count. 🔢 Having just returned my second-longest manuscript to date two weeks ahead of schedule, I’ve done a bit of number crunching. 🔎 While I’m not ready to share my daily word count, I will tell you a bit about what I do throughContinue reading “How many words is your average edit?”
Tag Archives: personalblog
Stay home or stay at home? Is the preposition on its way out?
It’s really interesting to see how language is changing in the current #Covid19 crisis. The BBC news app tells us that people are being told to ‘stay home’. On the signs people have been making for their windows, you can see the appeal of the symmetry of STAYHOME four letters apiece. Anyone in the UKContinue reading “Stay home or stay at home? Is the preposition on its way out?”
Proofreading stopped my panic attacks!
Between 2009 and 2017, on and off, I accessed support from primary health care for a generalised anxiety disorder. There were a few factors at play causing this, but one big one for me was feeling trapped by my employment circumstances. My mother-in-law once told me I was ‘institutionalised’! My path had taken me fromContinue reading “Proofreading stopped my panic attacks!”
I didn’t even know proofreading was ‘a thing’ when I was at school.
Did you even know your job existed when you were at school? 🤔 When I was at school, there were so many jobs that I didn’t even know existed. And it’s not because of technology. Some of these jobs have been around a long time. There are areas of study that I didn’t even knowContinue reading “I didn’t even know proofreading was ‘a thing’ when I was at school.”
What’s the best place to live? Why, it’s by the sea!
“O ye! who have your eyeballs vexed and tired, Feast them upon the wideness of the Sea;” John Keats got it right. Advice for our times. Moving from Leeds to Morecambe has done my mental (and physical) health a world of good. A friend of mine recently described living by the sea as being ‘goodContinue reading “What’s the best place to live? Why, it’s by the sea!”
What’s a busman’s holiday? I take many!
Let’s talk about the idea of a busman’s holiday. No, not the Granada game show of the same name from the 80s and 90s (this is becoming a theme!) Just the leisure activities that you do which are not a million miles away from your day job. You may be able to tell from myContinue reading “What’s a busman’s holiday? I take many!”
Why do I want to be self-employed? Love for my husband is one of the key reasons.
I aim to be fully self-employed by the time my husband loses the last of his eyesight. My incredibly talented author husband, Jon Cronshaw, has a degenerative eye condition called retinitis pigmentosa. He currently has 5% usable vision in one eye. He has developed such an incredible mindset about this and does not let itContinue reading “Why do I want to be self-employed? Love for my husband is one of the key reasons.”
CherryEdits 