You love words. You love reading. You know how to spell and whether to put an apostrophe in ‘its’. You check CVs for friends, proofread your neighbourhood newsletter and use full words and punctuation in WhatsApp messages. You consider editing as a full-time career, a...
If there’s one thing professional editors rarely have enough of, it’s time. Between tight deadlines, overlapping projects, client queries, revisions and administrative work, the working day can disappear very quickly. In this busy environment, continuous professional...
I’m always trying to find ways to be more efficient – not necessarily faster, but more adept at balancing speed and quality. Having recently discovered that I can use ChatGPT in the same way others use PerfectIt, I have achieved a little win in both. But there are...
Our members often ask: ‘Why should I take the PEG Accreditation Test? And how will it benefit me?’ Well, there are a number of really positive reasons for doing so: First, it enables each of us to benchmark ourselves where we would otherwise have no other means of...
‘… most of the criticism is valid, and if we can edit the right way [my emphasis] and make it a really good read, I will be eternally grateful …’, said an author to me after putting a section of their carefully and diligently copy-edited manuscript through ChatGPT for...
