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Anyone who attended my SfEP conference session in 2018 will remember that we finished off by playing a little game that combined my two favourite things: swearing and word-nerdery. Now, in these troubled times, I am making it available to the wider world, to find out whether it's at all entertaining when you haven't spent… Continue reading How The Fuck Do I Style This? – The Game

Because, well, you know. Bloggers, be kind to yourselves. Nobody expects you to be churning out quality content at a time like this.

When I first started working with my coach, what I really needed was someone to kick my arse. Accountability has been something I’ve really struggled with since I left my old job. I’d always worked for an organisation and always had a boss. And even though I always had bosses who very much trusted me… Continue reading Working with a coach 2: Time blocking

As I’ve mentioned before, in the second half of last year I worked with a business coach. I always intended to write a blog post about what I learned from that experience, but it turns out I learned a WHOLE LOAD, far too much for one post. So it’s going to be a little series… Continue reading Working with a coach: part 1

I get/have to spend all of this week with my children. At the moment, I’m at the first option, because they’re being pretty cool. By the end of the week, when we’re all bored of each other’s company, it will lean more toward the latter, I’m sure. I’ve managed to organise my workload so I… Continue reading Freelance parenting

Unusually serious post (with a rather unwieldy title) today; sorry about that. Joking and swearing will resume before long, I'm sure. Recently, I received an email from the client whose manuscript I was working on. It said: “Just touching base to see if we are still on track for delivery of my manuscript by xx?”… Continue reading Scammy editors, cautious editors, and the clients in between

Four years ago today, I applied to join the Society for Editors and Proofreaders. And in just a few weeks, I will no longer be a member of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders. No, I’m not abandoning my editing career or flouncing from the society in a huff. The SfEP has been granted chartership,… Continue reading What the SfEP has meant to me

I’ve broken my New Year’s resolution, which was to stop making New Year’s resolutions, because I always break them. My resolution-breaking resolution is this: in 2020, I’m going to stop breaking my resolutions. Confused yet? I know. Give me a minute. This year, I need to make my business grow. It has been growing, over… Continue reading New Year, New Resolution

The decade is almost over. This is hideous and I am only accepting that it’s true for the purposes of this blog post. I end this decade in a very different place to where I started. At the beginning of 2010, I was on maternity leave, having not long had my first child. I would… Continue reading Out with the new

Some of you may have seen on Twitter that something very exciting happened to me this week. I passed the 40k mark of my work in progress, which means that technically, if you go by the very minimum measurement, it will be an actual novel. I’ve always wanted to write a novel. I originally thought… Continue reading Writing as an editor