Academia and Self-Care: Uneasy Partners

Here we begin to explore the difficulty of self-care for academics because of the complexity of academic deadlines, and the role of academic coaching.

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Artificial Intelligence, Writing, and Editing: GPT-3

In an earlier post, we considered some general issues around artificial intelligence, writing, and editing. This topic is both technically and existentially interesting, so today we’ll focus in more on […]

Self-Regulation: Writing on the Hardest Days

We have written a fair amount about self-regulation in relation to writing. We have discussed strategies for starting, ways to persevere, ways to navigate around procrastination, and the joy of […]

Draft 1 and the Crafting of Clarity from Abundant Chaos

We’ve already written a good deal about what it’s like to get stuck with writing, some strategies for overcoming stuckness, and what unstuck writing tends to feel like. Recently, we […]

Artificial Intelligence, Writing, and Editing

Some thoughts about artificial intelligence and the near-future of the editing profession.

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Editing and (a Bit of) Philosophy: Meaning and Form

Briefly exploring the intersection of philosophy and editing.

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Draft 0 and the Joy of Just Starting to Write

We’ve already written a fair deal about what it’s like to get stuck with writing, some strategies for overcoming stuckness, and what unstuck writing tends to feel like. Today, let’s […]

Editing and the Style Guide: Between Flexibility and Consistency

Language is a beautiful, diverse, and evolving thing. This is the fundamental attitude we bring to our editing work. Because of this, we aim to clarify our clients’ voices within […]

Tools of the Trade: Microsoft Word’s Modern Comments Debacle

Academia and the editing world are close companions, and share a great number of tools. Most of these tools are software-based and make our skill-sets quite portable, which is a […]

Announcing Our First Writing Group for Grad Students

We’re excited to announce that we’re launching our first writing group! It’ll be free throughout July as we gather feedback, and it’ll move to a subscription service in August charged […]