Fiction proofreader 😀 Some call it nit-picking. Some call it pedantry. I call it essential for good writing and a successful publication 👍🏻
Heckmondwike
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So let me just get this straight @WordPress - the email address you emailed me via to confirm that it was indeed my email address apparently is now not the email address that I should log in to your site with? #confused #makethiswork
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#proofreading fiction books is the path I’m focusing on to expand my business. 17+ years of #proofing non-fiction, now a change of subject is required 😁📚✏️📑 #fictionwriters #books #proofreadingservice
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In Old English, the ampersand, '&', was considered the 27th letter of the alphabet. Children reciting the alphabet in school would chant 'per se', Latin for 'by itself', after letters that were words in themselves: 'A per se A, I per se I', etc, and also '& per se &'. This 'and per se and' eventually became mangled to 'ampersand'.
The symbol & was Roman shorthand for 'et', 'and'.
Has @twitter (sorry, 'X') done something to sabotage @instagram and @Threads? I can't get into my accounts...keep getting a message saying a code is being sent to my mobile, but no code arrives 😭 #stupidtechnology #metahelp #doIreallyneedsocialmedia
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What is happening?! I don't use this site as a rule anymore, but not being able to log in to my Facebook or Instagram accounts means the first place I thought of to look for reassurance that it isn't just me was to come here... #theworldisbroken #facebookdown #noinsta
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There are many words I could use about Trump, but @BBCNews have played a blinder here with the use of 'braggadocious' #bravo #journalism #language #writing
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Pairing Nikita with @LaytonWilliams is the genius move of the #Strictly season 😀 Absolutely amazing,
the choreography in their dances is stunning #loveit #keepdancing
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Shergal Farkey has just made me laugh so much @vernonkay - thank you, I needed that right now!🤣
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A sure-fire way to make your #proofreader feel like they are going insane is to repeat word for word whole swathes of copy within your document. This can lead to much confusion (but I guess it's a quick way to increase word count in a thesis...) #wordblind #English #writing
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Cannot wait but also don’t want it to be the end 😢
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Well that was brilliant @SirMattBourne, what a fabulous way to spend a Weds evening, watching #RomeoandJuliet @BradfordTheatre 🩰🎭💔 Absolutely stunning 🤩
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I’ve read ‘The Secrets of Strangers’ by @CharityNorman1 and ‘A Room Made of Leaves’ by Kate Grenville this week and I’m not sure how to re-enter the real world now after being so utterly engrossed in both books 📚😉 #reading #library #fiction
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It's not that often I need to check the spelling of 'rhododendron', but today is one of those days and the more I look at it and say it, the more it seems like a weirdly spelled word!! #proofreading #brainfreeze #horticulture #flowers
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