http://sarahgiles1.typepad.com/blog/ Freelance writer and editor en-GB 2011-12-05T07:00:00+00:00 SarahGileshttp://feedburner.google.com http://sarahgiles1.typepad.com/blog/2011/12/why-i-didnt-reach-my-nanowrimo-target.html You may have noticed that November has ended and there's been no more NaNoWriMo news from me. Yes, I stopped working on my book after about a week of regular daily additions to the word count. There are two main reasons: 1) I had a sudden influx of new work... Books Christianity Work Writing Sarah Giles 2011-12-05T07:00:00+00:00 http://sarahgiles1.typepad.com/blog/2011/11/nanowrimo-day-4-update.html In the interests of transparency, I'd written 9537 words before the month began, so I'm aiming for a total of 60,000 on 30 November, not the usual 50,000 on which some of the stats are based. So far it's going OK, though I didn't work on it at all yesterday.... Books Christianity English language Religion Travel Writing Sarah Giles 2011-11-04T16:26:00+00:00 http://sarahgiles1.typepad.com/blog/2011/10/nanowrimo.html Tomorrow I'll be embarking on my first experience of participating in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). The idea is to write a first draft of a 50,000-word book in 30 days. I'll be tweeting my progress (here). As we're also likely to be moving house in November, I may be... Books English language Writing Sarah Giles 2011-10-31T11:11:37+00:00 http://sarahgiles1.typepad.com/blog/2011/08/review-children-in-the-way.html Last week I proofread Children in the Way? by Carrie Kingston and Isobel MacDougall. It's great. I raved about it on Twitter and Facebook and several people asked me for more details. The cover blurb (from Amazon) The first years are critical, a pivotal time when children have powerful curiosity,... Books Christianity Editing English language Proofreading Religion Work Sarah Giles 2011-08-25T14:31:37+01:00 http://sarahgiles1.typepad.com/blog/2011/08/monday-fun-the-advertising-slogan-generator.html The QI Elves (@qikipedia) tweeted yesterday about The Advertising Slogan Generator. It’s a website: you feed in key words, such as your name, and it generates a slogan, using its database of hundreds of genuine slogans used since the 1950s. Here’s what it came up with for me. You’ll look... English language Quotations Television Sarah Giles 2011-08-22T07:30:00+01:00 http://sarahgiles1.typepad.com/blog/2011/08/a-five-year-thank-you.html I've just sent this email to the lovely clients I've worked with since I went freelance in August 2006. I'm so thankful to be able to do what I do. Hello! This week marks five years since I first went freelance. Five years! In that time I've enjoyed working on... Books Christianity Editing English language Jobs Proofreading Religion Work Writing Sarah Giles 2011-08-15T14:03:01+01:00 http://sarahgiles1.typepad.com/blog/2011/08/a-weekend-with-shimelle-.html This weekend I'm participating in Shimelle's weekend wondercrop. And loving it. (For non-scrapbookers, a gathering of scrapbookers where people work on their pages together is called a crop, from the process of cutting up photos. Most of the crops I attend are cybercrops, i.e. everything happens online and you participate... Sarah Giles 2011-08-13T15:50:50+01:00 http://sarahgiles1.typepad.com/blog/2011/07/a-glimpse-of-a-week-in-the-life-giles-style.html As I mentioned previously, I am gleefully participating in the Week in the Life phenomenon this week. Taking a kajillion photos. Documenting everything. Collecting ephemera. Looking forward to putting it all together. I'll share photos of the finished album in a few days, once it's all put together and lovely,... Books Christianity Editing Sarah Giles 2011-07-29T11:56:57+01:00 http://sarahgiles1.typepad.com/blog/2011/07/buy-a-house-this-weekend-and-get-free-proofreading.html Ever been curious about the Giles residence, home of wordy works of wonder? Now you can see it. You can even own it. Our lovely house is for sale. Please share the news. (There are Facebook and Twitter buttons below.) Please share the link. (http://bit.ly/NiceHouse) Please call the agents (01420... Proofreading Work Sarah Giles 2011-07-15T10:28:02+01:00 http://sarahgiles1.typepad.com/blog/2011/06/a-week-in-the-life-coming-soon.html I like producing words. Whether I'm writing to persuade people to a point of view, documenting events, communicating with friends or strangers on Twitter, whatver purpose it serves, I find the whole business quite delightful. (I think we established that a long time ago.) I also like taking pictures. And... Books English language Writing Sarah Giles 2011-06-24T08:00:00+01:00