Here’s a list of quick and easy ways to polish your manuscript using find and replace: 💎 Cmd+F double spaces & replace with one space 💎 Cmd+F “in order to” & replace with “to” 💎 Cmd + F “as a way to” & replace with “to” 💎 Cmd+F straight quotes & replace with curly quotes

I seriously don’t understand any other opinion. Why would they *not* count as reading?

Editing others: “you could easily lose this 4000 word chapter; it adds nothing” Editing myself:

“Mr and Dr” 💍

Gorgeous but dark academia is gonna get back problems

The Proust exhibition at the Museo Thyssen sells madeleines in the gift shop 😮

I was today years old when I learned that Mr Darcy has a first name, and it's Fitzwilliam

I had an amazing meeting this morning with a client to discuss her poetry collection. We talked about emotional responses and personal connections to the writing and riffed on ideas. When people ask me if I'm worried that AI will replace editors, I say no: AI can't do this.

It is impossible to explain to non-British people that Spoons is a cheap national pub chain in oddly magnificent buildings and is also somehow pro-Brexit

I just read a 2* review on Goodreads that said “it felt like the authors were using the book as a platform to insert political opinions they personally support,” and I’m wondering if this person has ever read a book.

Imagine my amazement when I passed this magazine stand and caught eyes with Gertrude Stein

Your editor is telling you to stop using passive voice for a reason: grammar can be politicised 🇵🇸

An excellent example of active voice clarifying who has committed harms ⬇️

Even though the writing IS the research in humanities, often written argument is just too dense for a listening audience to digest. It’s better to distribute papers for reading along (bonus for accessibility) or tailor the papers to oral argument - or risk losing them. pic.x.com/7mUmYDO33E

If there’s anyone left in the UK who hasn’t read Sally Rooney, it’s a good day to buy her books

Anyone know where I can watch an awesome adaptation of Hamlet for free? Or is there one in any country on Netflix? Asking not for intellectual reasons but to prepare for Taylor Swift's album release 🔶