The publishing industry is old, old, old. Most of the Big Five publishers in America have roots reaching back to the 1800s and 1700s, and Oxford University Press, the biggest academic publisher in the world, dates back to the beginning of book printing itself. The evolution of book publishing has been mostly that: gradual changes […]
Archives for September 2019
What is a stylesheet? And do I have one?
If you signed a Letter of Agreement to become a Wordsmith client, we created a stylesheet for you! If you’re an academic client with Wordsmith Writing Coaches and we edited a longish bit of work for you, we might have a stylesheet for you, especially if your work had complicated formatting, or if your professor/advisor/journal […]
Why do we bother?
Writing is hard. Creating anything new is always fun in the beginning (for me, at least) but it becomes hard, soul-drainingly hard, as you push all the way through to completion and delivery. If it’s so difficult… why do it? In a general sense, doing hard things, creative things, is part of being a healthy […]