Category: Editing
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In 13 days, the Twin Miracles Editorial family will be at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland in Anaheim. We have a four-hour window during which time I am highly likely to hug every single costumed employee, droid, spaceship, and creature in the place. We’ve heard the wait time for Smuggler’s Run, the Millennium Falcon…
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One of the things I miss most about print journalism is holding the physical representation of all your hard work in your hands. True, paper fades over time, but seeing the articles, headlines, photos, and design of newspaper sections and magazines that I had produced always gave me an extra feeling of accomplishment that the…
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Coming up on my one-year anniversary with Storkey Media, a British-based marketing firm that provides copywriting and other services to a wide array of businesses “across the pond” along with LinkedIn profile writing services. I started off as a straight editor but as the some of the staff has turned over, I’ve been able to…
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One of my most recent clients was a gentleman from Australia who specializes in Art as Therapy for both children and adults. I got to edit and touch up an article he had written for a magazine down under, but the real winner in the deal was me, as I got to learn a lot…
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A funny thing happened not too long ago, I was able to give my mom a quick lesson in the types of discrimination felt by teacher applicants in public school districts in Oklahoma. Why would I have this trove of available information? Because I edited a dissertation about it. Academic editing, which I’m currently doing…
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Late last night I got an email from a client from Australia who I worked for last September on a few articles he was submitting for publication. His name is Michael Clark and he runs a company Down Under that strives to help kids with dyslexia and trouble reading attain success, and goes outside the…
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In 1983, a Los Angeles man named Willie Green was arrested for stealing a television set. While in jail, he was placed in a police line-up without cause, identified by a witness who had never seen his face, and ultimately sentenced to prison for a crime – murder – he did not commit. Through a…
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Never thought I’d be so excited about a white paper, but since I shaped the raw content and wrote the majority of this one, I find myself rather pleased to put a link to it on here. So if you’re looking or success in developing your own Intranet – take a gander! Best part is…
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OK, technically I wasn’t working WITH Snoopy, I mean he didn’t call me on the phone, come over, or let me join the company softball team – Snoopy is an all-star shortstop if you didn’t know. But my latest project with the very cool Manhattan branding firm Fuse Creative included proofing a script for MetLife’s…
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One of the most exciting things about being a freelance editor and writer these days is watching businesses evolve beyond the relentless pursuit of SEO terms and page clicks. Whereas plenty of places are still bound and determined to uncork the bottle that contain’s Google’s secret potion for search-result placement, others are realizing that the…
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