Proofreading and Editing After Covid
Freelancing in the Covid Years I have no idea whether we are off the Covid hook. The virus is in retreat. But who knows? Variants may be growing in Tooting [...]
COVID, and Working from Home
Living it large and working from home Daisy and I started Chapterhouse 30 years ago. Back then freelancing was a minority sport, and working from home was unusual. Quite a [...]
Careers for Ex-Teachers
Proofreading and Copy-editing – Careers for Ex-Teachers There are many careers for ex-teachers, private tutoring probably being the most popular. But freelance editing and proofreading are also strong contenders. Over the years [...]
HEDDA GABLER BURNING BOOKS
Hedda * ... incurring the severest and most tomato-y punishment allowable by this court... Just saw the National Theatre's Hedda Gabler at a live screening in Devon. These [...]
RECENT COMMENTS AND “BAD” ENGLISH
We love it when we get comments from students on our courses who are enjoying what we've written. This was in an email from a correspondence course student this morning: [...]
BIG CHANGE FOR COPY-EDITORS
Chapterhouse has been teaching people to copy-edit and proofread for twenty-five years! We ran our first little seminar in our sitting room with a log fire and red wine. Then [...]
FREE LANCE FREELANCE
What is a Freelance? First, is it freelance or freelancer? Well, either! But freelance may be a verb, adjective, noun or adverb. Freelancer is only a noun, poor thing! So [...]
EDITORS AND AGENTS
Subtext is All Copy-editors and proofreaders are well-used to the sophistry of language, its nuances and deceptive guises. Sometimes it may be the copy-editor's job to clarify and explain, but [...]
TRICKY SPELLINGS
Authors' Names Copy-editors and Proofreaders Beware As we saw yesterday, when we learn to copy-edit and proofread, special attention must always go to the spelling of names. The trouble with [...]
SPELL THAT NAME
Quiz for Copy-editors and Proofreaders And, of course, for anyone else who wants to have a go. The worst nightmare for a copy-editor or proofreader is to spell a name [...]