Flying solo: Time management for yourself and for your business. Part II: Action!
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Flying solo: Time management for yourself and for your business. Part I: Diagnosis
In this two-part article, Sue Littleford takes a fresh look at time management. She starts by covering the diagnosis – how much time you actually have – then goes on to examine what can go wrong with time management, and how to counter this. For freelancers, without the discipline of a line manager breathing down […]
Flying solo: Networking for business support
In this Flying Solo column, Sue Littleford looks at ways in which we can step outside the editing and proofreading bubble when it comes to networking and professional development. Networking with editors is great – we all share similar interests and can support one another about editing and proofreading. However, what about networking with freelancers/small […]
Flying solo: Focusing your website on your ideal client
In this Flying Solo column, Sue Littleford gets deep into the business of editing text for your website. When it comes to the content of your website, there are four stages: the initial content creation of the text, editing it down to do the job efficiently, making it accessible and keeping your content fresh. Let’s […]
Flying Solo: Facts for fiction editors
In this Flying Solo column, Sue Littleford looks at how the Going Solo toolkit’s work record spreadsheet can be modified for use by fiction editors, and finds out how three fiction editors keep records about their work. Fiction editors can’t avoid diving into non-fiction when they’re running their businesses rather than editing. The Going Solo […]
Flying Solo: Conscious language and the business-conscious editor or proofreader
In this latest Flying Solo post, Sue Littleford considers the importance of conscious language in marketing and selling your services as a freelance editor or proofreader. Alienating possible clients is a business no-no. Sure, you don’t have to work with everyone who approaches you. There are folk who ask for a service you don’t provide, […]
Flying Solo: The business of editing references
In her latest Flying Solo post, Sue Littleford discusses how to edit references more efficiently (and more profitably). When I’m copyediting, the references can take longer than the main text. There’s a lot involved and the scope of work can be quite broad – I’m often required to complete or correct inadequate references, as well […]
Flying solo: How can we apply our editorial judgement to our businesses?
In her regular Flying solo column, Sue Littleford considers how the critical skill of editorial judgement can be applied to running an editorial business. Editorial judgement calls for an understanding of context, for knowing your stuff when it comes to technical matters (whether that’s the finer points of grammar or the finer points of Word […]
Flying solo: Good communication is accessible
In this latest Flying solo post, Sue Littleford looks at the importance of accessibility in business communication. Accessibility shouldn’t be an afterthought. You shouldn’t make a thing and then think, ooh, I guess I should make it accessible. Instead, build accessibility into the thing from the start. We wordsmiths know that accessibility for every reader […]
Flying solo: The environment – a matter of give and take
Sue Littleford, our Flying solo columnist, looks at what changes we can make – to the way we run our businesses and to our personal decisions – to lessen our impact on the environment. The environment of the only planet we have. Precious, irreplaceable. Under tremendous threat. Where do editors and proofreaders fit into this? […]