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Sunday, April 3, 2016

He goes on to say

FOUND ONLINE: ... he was talking about being able to phone it in for fall sorts of things. He goes on to say that one day, brain surgeons in Edinburgh could be performing on patients in New Zealand.

 The first part of this is the end of a run-on sentence. I assume the writer meant all sorts, not fall sorts.
I'll rewrite the beginning of the second sentence.

 ... he was talking about being able to phone it in for all sorts of things. He adds that, one day, brain surgeons in Edinburgh could work on patients in New Zealand.

 I found one article that was such a mess that I didn't even try to help it here. The first sentence couldn't make sense UNLESS YOU GOT RID OF THE FIRST WORD! And that was just a guess on my part.

 Apparently there was no editor for this web site.

 FROM THE SAME WEB SITE: Ocean acidification, another horrible side effect of humanity’s fossil fuel addiction, treatens the survival of shell-forming sea life, and could destroy food webs dissastrously and irrepairably.

Spellcheck doesn't like acidification, treatens, dissastrously and irrepairably. We can't fix acidification, but the others can be repaired.

Ocean acidification, another horrible side effect of humanity’s fossil fuel addiction, threatens the survival of shell-forming sea life, and could destroy food webs disastrously and irreparably.

 Actually, I'm not sure you even need disastrously and irreparably. If the food webs are destroyed, that's enough.

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Friday, March 1, 2013

If you're a writer, I can help

When writers contact me, they usually ask two questions: How much do you charge? And do you edit my kind of writing?

First, the charge. If it's long (novel, non-fiction book, academic dissertation), I charge one cent a word. I cut a doctoral candidate some slack, but normally that's the charge.

Everything else, I charge by the editing project or $25 an hour. I prefer not to charge by the hour unless the client insists. I'd rather do a great job than worry about time. Proofreading is $15 an hour or a half-cent a word.

Second, do I edit your kind of writing? Almost certainly. I've edited a doctoral dissertation. I've turned British books into something for a U.S. market. I've edited non-fiction and fiction books about spirituality, non-fiction self-help books, and an ebook about hand and foot care.

I've edited and proofread novels and non-fiction books. I've edited for a Canadian student, a lawyer from Virginia, a restaurateur in North Carolina, a bookseller from Virginia, and businessmen from Australia.

And that's just a tip of the iceberg. I've edited lots of newspaper stories, and I've written comic-book scripts, four non-fiction books, more than a hundred magazine articles and thousands of newspaper stories.

If you have questions, just ask. I suspect I can help.

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BLOG ENTRIES FROM THE AUTO RACING JOURNAL
(a book of great stories about the Intimidator)
(the book of great NASCAR stories)
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