by Gill Booles | Dec 31, 2012 | Communication, Digital, Marketing, Print, Self-publishing, social media, Website
You look back. You look back to the start of the year when plans were being drawn up. Back when it all seemed so simple. It is simple. Well no perhaps that’s a tad simplistic, if ‘it’ is life. I’m not a lifestyle guru. There are many other blogs which will promise...
by Gill Booles | Dec 19, 2012 | Website
“You’ll soon be able to visit us using the new tram service” the restaurant promises on its website. Yeah, good luck with that. The Edinburgh trams may be delayed but you could say that the directions showing how to get to the restaurant will be correct one day. Even...
by Gill Booles | Sep 10, 2010 | Articles, Digital, Editing, Marketing, Print, Proofreading, Website
Welcome to the Words Are Everywhere newsletter. *************** STARTING THE NEW YEAR IN SEPTEMBER I was the kind of child who was pleased to see the ‘back to school’ adverts. I like September because of the promise of a new start. Beginning a new project and looking...
by Gill Booles | Jan 20, 2010 | Freelancing, Marketing
Work, like the seasons, tends to follow a certain pattern. In the public sector, January is all go. There’s pressure to spend budgets by the end of the financial year, projects are reaching the end of their production cycle and there’s proofreading galore to get...
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...
