Ink & Pages is a biweekly newsletter where you'll find resources for writers and editors, behind-the-scenes stories, links I loved, and a book on my nightstand.
📖 I Have a Reading Problem
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Brittany Redderoth
Ink & Pages is a biweekly newsletter where you'll find resources for writers and editors, behind-the-scenes stories, links I loved, and a book on my nightstand.
I need you all to know something. Even though I get paid to catch errors in manuscripts, there is a good chance you’re going to see a typo in my own writing here and there. I’m always SO annoyed to find one after people have seen it. But you know what? I remind myself that 1) I’m human and 2) this only helps my work. How, you ask? Because all of us need an outside pair of eyes to check behind us. There is something about the brain that decides it’s going to gloss over the words when it’s our...
In the month of January, the Freelance Editors Club read Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World by Anne-Laure Le Cunff. And full disclosure: I haven’t finished the book yet. I know, I know. BUT. This book has totally snuck up on me and is causing me to view how I do certain things in a whole new way. The author makes an argument that we should not be afraid with experimenting with things and evaluating how those trials go—like a science experiment—rather than setting a...
I’m not a big video game player, but I’m definitely not not a video game player, either. Nintendo 64 was my jam as a kid, I got really into Skyrim: Elder Scrolls in 2013ish (surprising, right?), and I spent a lot of time playing Zelda: Breath of the Wild in my oldest kid’s newborn days when I was nap-trapped. But I’m more of an opportunistic player. I don’t have a ton of free time, so I’m usually reading or watching a show in the evenings. But I kept hearing about Dreamlight Valley and so I...