Author: Paul Roberts

Working with editors: Why self-editing diminishes quality

Looking back, it was karma for my smugness. Two days before the deadline, I handed in one bound copy of my MA dissertation. I returned to my room and with a purr of satisfaction opened the other… only to spy, on the title page, the word ‘and’ spelled with a central M. It’s been unopened in a drawer ever since.

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World Book Day: Remembering Richard Scarry’s Storybook Dictionary

For World Book Day, copywriter Paul remembers an old favourite and wonders: Can the books we love when little influence the career paths we take?  SCARRY PROSPECTS?  From kisses to records to foreign holidays, we’re supposed to remember our firsts. I can’t claim to remember the first book I ever had, but the first I can remember was a pretty remarkable one.  Richard

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Mistakes, I’ve Made a Few

Apparently, I think too fast. At least, that’s the flattering explanation Quora offered for my tendency – shared, I’m pleased to say with millions of others – to miss out the occasional word as we type.

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The left-handed experience is changing

I must have been about seven years old when I got the “Anything Left Handed” catalogue. Inside, the pages were full of a mad range of products – scissors to stationery, tin openers to tape measures. And as the sole (known)* left-hander in the family, it felt like these were treasures only available to me.

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