by Kathie York | Sep 18, 2021 | Non-Overwhelm, Quick Wins, TECH group, Writing Tips
[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ] OK now. Seriously. Am I the only person fed up with the cumbersome ‘Save As’ list in MS Office products? That puppy seems to go on forEVer. In reality, this is our...
by Kathie York | Jun 19, 2021 | Business Writing, Editing, Quick Wins
[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ] [ Executive summary: avoid overusing the words on the 2nd bulleted list. 🙂 ] It doesn’t matter if we are authoring a technical manual, non-fiction book on X process, or a...
by Kathie York | Oct 17, 2020 | Quick Wins, Word 'puzzlers'
[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ] If you’ve followed along with the Quick Wins from the beginning, this is where it starts paying off! In [QW1], we discussed a team is a collection of people making up: A...
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...