Jane Wilson Creative Communication

08/29/2022

Full day: three letters to the editor written and sent out (publication confirmed for 2 within the hour), two website postings done and a half dozen Facebook.posts and Tweets. All on electricity issues.

08/11/2018

Just finished assignments: a patient information resource on osteoarthritis (edit a book-length manuscript); ad copy for a professional journal; and created web content on a specialty area of expertise for a professional firm.

10/31/2017

If you are going to do puns (and we don't recommend it), make sure they are not dumb. "Health-o-ween"??? No.

10/20/2017

For sale: a "carosene" heater. Really.

10/06/2017

Fond as we are of pointing out typos and malapropisms, this one makes us rather sad. An "eliminated" sign? In the once venerable Whig-Standard? Are stories being written by voice now?

A woman has been charged by the Ontario Provincial Police after a crash on Highway 401 Thursday night.

08/29/2017

Reminiscence of a fine journalism career: Fred Grimm of the Miami Herald. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/fred-grimm/article169227137.html

Mostly, I chased calamities. Sometimes (like one frightening night during the 1980 Miami riots) calamities chased me.

08/25/2017

What's wrong with this sentence? "Workers laying a network cable found a relic ..." NOTHING. But too often, people use lay/laying incorrectly, as in, "My husband was just laying there" --- it just looks bad. Got a big document you don't want to look bad? Hire an editor!

08/17/2017

I still hate "buckets" ...

08/16/2017

One of the tasks I spend the most time on for people is writing letters. (Yes, letters!) A well written letter can get results! Can I help you?

08/13/2017

(Groan). Spelling ...