History and Culture – Bruce Editing Services

Deciding Between ‘Awoken’ and ‘Awakened’: An Editor’s Dilemma

Here’s a question: What, as editors, do we do when faced with two technically “correct” choices in a manuscript? What swings the decision in favor of one option or the other? I ran into an interesting conundrum this past week that raised this question for me, and sent me down a bit of a rabbitContinue reading “Deciding Between ‘Awoken’ and ‘Awakened’: An Editor’s Dilemma”

Rethinking William Wallace with a Medieval Poet

I’ve long had an interest in medieval Scottish literature and culture. For a number of years, before I hung out my shingle as an editor, a big part of my job was to be a scholar of the same. For that reason, anniversaries of landmark events in Scottish history tend to catch my attention, likeContinue reading “Rethinking William Wallace with a Medieval Poet”