Author Archives: copyeditcat

The Mother of All Edits: The Self-Edit

This week I’ve been attending career workshops—about using social media, writing resumés, that sort of thing. And it’s all about personal branding. What message are you trying to convey? Keep that brand consistent across social media. Use social media to research jobs and network, interact and ask questions, make updates and spread the word that you’reContinue Reading

Joining Independent Clauses

In the novels I’ve been reading lately, I’ve been noticing a lot of sentences made up of two independent clauses that are joined with a comma. I know, I know. (See what I just did there?) This is sometimes okay, but often this construction screams out “comma splice!” I went looking for an authority to enlighten me on this. That’s whereContinue Reading