My career as an editor started pretty early. At age seven, in fact. And I’ve got Prince Charles to thank for it, in part. It’s 1980 and The Prince of Wales had just published his tale of ‘The Old Man of Lochnagar’, a story he’d written eleven years earlier for his younger brothers, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward, about the adventures of a hoary old fellow living in...
Scrabble is good for you
So, there are a couple of songs about Scrabble, and now the latest news is that NCP contractors who painted “20 minuites max parking” on a road in Cambridge have been advised to spend their lunch hours playing the word game – so beloved of, apparently, The Queen, President Obama and Kylie Minogue… and me – in order to revise their spelling skills, according to BBC Cambridgeshire...
This is for you, Liz
I have a friend, Liz, who is at home at the moment recovering from a bit of NHS scalpel-and-stitchery action, with only a stack of novels and tv box sets to keep her company during the day. Surprisingly, she also seems to have had the inclination to read my blog more than once, and has called me up to chastise me for not updating it more often. Ah yes, the prioritisation scales of the freelance...
I thought I didn’t have time to blog this week…
…until I read this post by author and entrepreneur Seth Godin. It makes me think that saying I’m “running out of time” is just an excuse, when actually what I’m running out of is a feeling of creative urgency. After all, if Seth’s got time to blog, then I should jolly well be able to make a minute to do so. Thanks Seth.
More streamlined copy? No problem
I’ve just finished working on a big copywriting job for a renowned London-wide psychotherapy practice which wanted its whole website rewriting in a friendly and approachable style with more calls to action. Unfortunately, confidentiality agreements forbid me from disclosing its identity. However, what I can say is that while reading up on the different therapeutic areas it works in I have learnt...