When Spell Check is not Your Friend

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As most of us know, spell check can’t read minds. We’ve probably all ran into situations where we’ve butchered the spelling of a word and spell check has suggested a word that is not the word you mean to include. If you are tired or distracted enough, you might just accept the suggestion and move [...]

The Tense Monster

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In my last post, I mentioned that I was going to start concentrating on issues that I’ve run into while editing. I think the one that I should start with is…the evil Tense Monster. This is, without question, the one issue that I deal with more on a daily basis than any other. The majority of the [...]

Making the Big Move

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Well, it’s all over… and just beginning. Last week, while D.D. Scott was stepping in to post in my time slot here on the WG2E (thanks again D.D.), I was loading and driving a U-Haul truck 1,000+ miles from Boston to Midwestern cattle country. So now, instead of sirens, I hear tree frogs, crickets and [...]

Confessions of a Literary Snob Turned Freelance Editor

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Hello to all of you out there in WG2E Land. I’m really happy to be contributing my first post to the site. For those of you who are not familiar with me, I’m Matthew Rush. I live in Boston and I’ve just completed my masters in Library/Information Science.  I’ve recently started freelance editing as The Edit [...]