by Kathie York | Oct 3, 2020 | Editing, Writing Tips
It’s an unhappy moment. An editor tells an author they need the first draft copy before editing can begin. The writer is dumbfounded. Isn’t that what they emailed? No. They sent months (or years) of musings. Maybe the file was run through spell...
by Kathie York | Sep 19, 2020 | Quick Wins, Word 'puzzlers'
[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ] Here is a problematic word puzzler where one outlier does not follow the rule. [QW5] “It’s” vs. “Its” We often find an apostrophe demonstrating...
by Kathie York | Sep 5, 2020 | Entrepreneurship, Work from home
Have a biz issue we need to discuss? Click here to tell me about it. Let’s get you to non-overwhelm! Someone just screamed at their phone: “NO!” And I sympathize. In February or March, your employer may have joined the worldwide lockdown...
by Kathie York | Aug 15, 2020 | Quick Wins, Word 'puzzlers'
[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ] Okay, pet peeve time. We in the U.S. are ramping up to an election in early November. And I guarantee: we will hear and see the word ‘democratic’ misused 99% of the...
by Kathie York | Aug 1, 2020 | __Subscriber Spotlights, Business builder, Business Writing, Communication, Entrepreneurship, Non-Overwhelm
When my subscriber and friend Shawn H. and I talked about meeting reminders, she gave me another excellent idea to research and share with you: “I’d like to find the best way to follow-up and thank clients. Has the etiquette around thank-you notes changed?” Funny you...
