Looking for a reliable, creative, experienced editor? I can pep up the mundane, simplify jargon, tone down the over-academic. I can rewrite, revise, make the fuzzy clear. Get the facts, grammar, and spelling right. Take your direction. Meet your deadline.

Prescription: The Word Doc.*
Prognosis: Healthy manuscripts, happy authors.

Original version:
The kings' courties had been send out to the market in Aksum to look for ostrich feathers for the kings' new crown.

Edited version:
Instructions: More pizzazz. Make it longer.
From the throne room of the great palace in Aksum, the word went out: The king wanted the finest ostrich feathers in the land to decorate his new crown. The most observant of the king's trusted servants went to the city's market in search of the most beautiful, softest, longest, whitest plumes from the tail of a stately male ostrich.

The Word Doc "is one of the names that occur to me when I am looking for a rescuer, someone who can take the proverbial sow's ear and turn it into . . . well, not a silk purse, but at least something we can send out into the world…without embarrassment. And she can turn something already decent into a real gem."

Marilyn Campbell, Director, Prepress Department, Rutgers University Press

Editing can be a gloomy process, even a curse. With the Word Doc, editing becomes an amazing gift, even a joy. The Word Doc enters totally into the intellectual core of your writing, becoming one with your objectives, and delicately rescues your every infelicitous attempt to get there. The only reservation I've ever had over her edits, is the slight guilt-which soon passes-that you are presenting yourself as a far more gifted and precise writer than you otherwise might be!

Michael Pertschuk
Co-Director, Advocacy Institute
Author of Smoke in Their Eyes and 4 other books

The Word Doc's "skill and infectious good humor encouraged a volume we can all be proud of. Thanks, [Word Doc]. You're the best."

Barbara Ciletti, Making Great Cheese

"Many thanks to [the Word Doc] for…thoughtful, considered, and sensitive work on the manuscript."

Rabow, Chin, and Fahiman, Tutoring Matters

"I thank [the Word Doc], whose acumen and thoroughness as a copy editor I greatly appreciate."

Lawrence J. Ouellet, Pedal to the Metal

Home | Word Doctoring | Writing/Research | Copywriting | Editing | FREE Offers

The Word Doc
Bobbe Needham

EMail 
bobbe@theworddoc.com

*Yes, a real doctor (of education).

Web Site Design by Totsie Marine