About Me
With a BA and an MA in English, Erin has been an editing professional for over 15 years and is sought after for her expertise in language mechanics. She works on a variety of media in all levels of editing and has experience teaching editing and coaching writers.
You can find Erin's work on The Writing Resource, Copyediting.com, Examiner, and Visual Thesaurus.
You can find Erin's work on The Writing Resource, Copyediting.com, Examiner, and Visual Thesaurus.
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Favorite Word:
lackadaisicalLeast Favorite Word:
sergeantFavorite Quote:
"If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?"
- T. S. Elliot
Favorite Topics:
Blogs:
Ben Zimmer on How Technology is Shaping Language
October 8, 2013
On Slate, Lexicon Valley Launches a New Language Blog
September 10, 2013
Books:
"Nine Nasty Words": How and Why We Curse
August 13, 2021
Highly Entertaining and Informative
August 3, 2021
Creativity:
Nine ways to finish the writing you start
July 28, 2022
July 28, 2022
Of Time, Happiness, Creativity and Writing Accomplishments....
December 23, 2021
Dictionaries:
The Post-Dictionary World?
June 3, 2021
Finding (or Inventing) Euphemisms in the Latest OED Update
November 13, 2019
Grammar:
Seven Sentences You Should Stop Writing
November 23, 2020
How to Make Your Sentences Shorter
June 25, 2020
Language:
Metaphors We Live By (Updated)
March 3, 2022
Brand Names of the Year for 2021
December 16, 2021
Linguistics:
Scale Your Onboarding
June 2, 2022
June 2, 2022
Tricky, Special, Fruitful, Space-Flavored Fiddle-Faddle
April 14, 2022
Reading:
How to Read More Books
November 19, 2018
Pride and Prejudice and Natural Language Processing
April 2, 2018
Self-publishing:
How to Survive Until You're Famous or Successful
March 24, 2022
How to Protect the Important From the Urgent
March 25, 2021
Word Origins:
Shoot! How Gun Idioms Color Our Speech
July 21, 2022
July 21, 2022
Scale Your Onboarding
June 2, 2022
June 2, 2022
Words:
Shoot! How Gun Idioms Color Our Speech
July 21, 2022
July 21, 2022
"Nine Nasty Words": How and Why We Curse
August 13, 2021
Writing:
Nine ways to finish the writing you start
July 28, 2022
July 28, 2022
How to Survive the Feast or Famine of Freelance Writing
April 28, 2022
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