by Gill Booles | Oct 2, 2009 | Communication, Digital, social media, Website
As legend has it, Ernest Hemingway was asked if he knew the shortest story in the English language. He is said to have answered: “For sale: Baby clothes, never used.” Impressive and less than 140 characters. Much as Da Vinci came up with the idea of the...
by Gill Booles | Sep 10, 2009 | Freelancing
This is the only industry where we don’t set the price. The client tells us how much they are prepared to spend and we freelancers respond. Let me put it another way. You wouldn’t go to a plumber and say ‘I want to pay between £500 and £2K, how much would a new...
by Gill Booles | Sep 1, 2009 | Freelancing, social media
When you work as a freelancer the latest developments in social media are as natural as the TV remote control. Or so the myth goes; that we tweet relentlessly, sit in coffee shops poring over our wi-fi enabled laptops and could work up a mountain thanks to our...
by Gill Booles | Aug 26, 2009 | Writing style
I can’t work in anything but Tahoma. The first thing I do if I’m editing is change the font from Times New Roman or Arial. Anything that comes in either of those two fonts is, for me, the equivalent of the institutional green paint used in prisons, public toilets and...
by Gill Booles | Aug 17, 2009 | Editing, Print
Someone once told me I was suggestible. And I believed them. A couple of Christmases ago a friend was commissioned to write a New Years resolution piece for a national paper. She was to write about her attempt to give up smoking. Come 1 January she would be giving up...
