If you are quite senior in your organisation, or a young mover and shaker, at some point you might be asked to be part of an editorial feature in a print publication. Read MoreREAD MORE
Most people outside of the media or literary worlds haven’t ever made use of an editor before (although they really should – not that I’m biased or anything…). But let’s say you’ve decided you do want someone to look over what you’ve written – to check that it flows well, that you haven’t left out too much information, or included too much, and to check that it’s all present and correct from a language point of view. Read MoreREAD MORE
There’s a principle I was taught in journalism, and it’s this: it can be dangerous to ask a question in the introductory paragraph of your story, because readers might answer it very differently to the way you do – and most often, they’ll be facetious. Read MoreREAD MORE
This is not the blog post I’d planned to write – if I’d taken the advice I give many of my clients, I’d be writing something completely different. I had a brilliant idea for this blog post a couple of days ago, I forgot to write it down, and now it’s gone. Read MoreREAD MORE