Archive for the 'Copyediting gone crazy' Category

Soon we’ll all be dead and you won’t care about punctuation

Somehow or other I became the unofficial copyeditor for the PRBreakfastClub. I’m not complaining, but I am suffering from the same crushing existential quandary that used to come after me when I worked as a copyeditor for a living: what the hell am I doing this for?
Nobody cares if someone uses an em dash [...]

Your Copy Sucks: Angelina’s Immediate Results

My first installment of Your Copy Sucks is up at PRBreakfastclub.com. Go check it out if you love any of the following:

Oscar Wilde quotes
semicolons
grammar snark
writing justice
$10 psychics
subway handbills
angry women with red pens
Stephen Fry podcasts
pitches in both a professional and baseball sense
British names for punctuation

Quick tips on dashes and hyphens

You can find a little ditty I wrote on dashes and hyphens on Ragan.com. Thanks to Michael Sebastian and Rob Reinalda for encouraging my special brand of crazy.