I was involved in a discussion about line editing recently, and it was very thought-provoking. It provoked so many thoughts, in fact, that I actually dusted off this here blog of mine to write about it. Line editing, combined with copyediting, is one of the services I offer, and on my services pages, I describe… Continue reading In praise of line editing
Author: kthomas
Back to the office
I like to buck a trend. This year, while people all over the world embraced long-term homeworking, I did the opposite. After six years of working from home, I started paying to use a co-working office. It was a matter of space, really. The people embracing homeworking included my husband’s bosses, who decided there was… Continue reading Back to the office
New year, new blog post
Happy new year, everyone! 2021 is over, a year that somehow felt both three days and seven hundred years long. It would have been nice to have done a bit of reflecting on 2021 because despite its many challenges (*cries in homeschooling*), it was actually a pretty good year for my business. I had some… Continue reading New year, new blog post
“Go where your clients are”
There’s a really simple piece of advice that’s often given to new freelancers, and that’s “Go where your clients are”. It’s good advice, in general – you need to connect with the people who might want to hire you, and to do that, you need to find them. And you’d think it would be logical… Continue reading “Go where your clients are”
A post about CIEP2021 and also not entirely about CIEP2021
Last week, I attended the CIEP annual conference, and by “attended” I mean I sat in my office (and for the first day, my bed) wearing my jogging bottoms while people talked at me through my computer screen. I wasn’t sure about this online conference thing. I didn’t take part last year, mostly because I… Continue reading A post about CIEP2021 and also not entirely about CIEP2021
The flexible freelancer
I do a fair bit of yoga. Oh hey, look at me, starting off my first blog post in a while with a big fat lie. Let’s be more accurate: I used to do a fair bit of yoga, and now I do the odd Adriene video once every couple of months. But that’s not… Continue reading The flexible freelancer
Do what you want
Do you know what I’ve just done? Of course you don’t, because I haven’t told you yet. I’ve just taken all the half-finished/barely started blog posts and lists of ideas and tucked them away in a folder called “Unfinished posts that you probably won’t go back to”. I almost deleted them, but I wasn’t feeling… Continue reading Do what you want
Managing the busy times
I’ve been pretty busy lately. Woo hoo! That’s something to celebrate – when you’re freelance, work coming in is most definitely a Good Thing because it means you can do exciting things like Buy Food and Pay Bills. (I don’t know why I felt the need for Pooh Caps there; just roll with it.) But… Continue reading Managing the busy times
Conscious Language
Do you ever get that thing, maybe when you’re drifting off to sleep and your mind starts to feel quite loose and free, where suddenly the meaning of a word or phrase will hit you and suddenly become crystal-clear? (Of course, sometimes you wake up the next morning and think WTF?) I had one of… Continue reading Conscious Language
Life in the Time of Coronavirus
2020–2021. What a shitshow, eh? One year ago today, I posted that I was taking a break from blogging. I didn’t envisage then that (aside from a couple of posts to promote sweary things) it would last a whole year. Did any of us, back then, have any inkling of what we were facing? Annoyingly,… Continue reading Life in the Time of Coronavirus
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