Summary: It was tough, coming back to the real world after Christmas, New Year and a week’s writing retreat – but I did it! Client work – check! Novel writing – check! Short stories – check! Podcast – check! Monday: I was still trying to get used to rejoining the world after Christmas, New […]
Tag: Editing
Goals for 2025
It’s no secret that I’ve been struggling with finding the joy in my writing of late. Drafting my current novel is largely going really well, but I am definitely looking forward to finishing it and sending it off for feedback. A while ago, I contemplated what it would feel like, once this draft is […]
Reflections on 2024
I have an exercise I do at the end of each year, where I track the number of hours of paid work I completed across the year (329.5), the total amount I earned for those hours (£20,275), and therefore my average hourly rate (£62). This year, I worked 62 hours fewer than in 2023, but […]
Freelance Mindset Pivot
It’s been over three years since I took up freelance editing and quit my office job – and I’ve never regretted it. I certainly couldn’t countenance going back to 9 to 5 working now. However, the hardest thing I still have to deal with is the uncertainty of it all. I’ve been very lucky […]
Freelancing is Unpredictable
I know people say freelance work always fluctuates between feast and famine – but I’ve been very lucky in my three years of freelancing that I’ve rarely had either a dry patch or so much work that it’s overwhelming (though both have happened). What I struggle with is that I rarely know when and where […]
Balancing Paid and Unpaid Work
At this moment in time, I have lots of paid editing work booked in for the next few months – which is really, really awesome! I’m used to a fortnightly schedule, whereby every other Friday, I’m in a position of all my client projects coming to an end, with nothing booked in for the following […]
Mind Over Matter
One of my main goals for 2024 was to finally join the CIEP and reach Professional level membership, at which point you get listed on the ‘approved editors’ directory, and may or may not get lots of great editing work… So far, it’s been going pretty well overall. To move from Entry level […]
Freelance Panic
It’s now been nearly three years since I started my freelance editing business, and I still wake up most mornings marvelling at the fact that I have a job I love, that’s so flexible and that is earning me a lot more money per hour than I ever made in an office job. However, […]
Professional Development
When I first started out as a freelance editor, back in April 2021, all the other editors I spoke to recommended joining the Chartered Institute of Editors and Proofreaders (CIEP). I duly looked into and and it seemed: Expensive (membership fees, upgrade fees, course fees) Complicated (tracking work experience and fulfilling CPD requirements) Time […]
Blog Articles About Copy Editing
I’ve been guest-posting articles on the Stand Corrected Editing blog. You can read them here: Can Grammarly Replace a Human Editor? How to Revisit an Old Unfinished Project Developmental Editing, Copy Editing, Line Editing – What’s the Difference? Pros and Cons of Using a Pseudonym Differences Between Self-Publishing, Hybrid Publishing and Vanity Publishing How to […]