by Tammy Ditmore | Jan 11, 2015 | Writing
As an editor, I pay a lot of attention to a writer’s voice. Any corrections I make or any revisions I suggest need to fit seamlessly into a piece so that they sound just like the author originally wrote it that way. I just finished reading a book that took the concept...
by Tammy Ditmore | Jan 1, 2015 | New Year's Resolutions, personal reflections
New Year’s Day has never been one of my favorite holidays. Too much pressure involved—beginning the night before, when I’m supposed to find a way to ring in the year in style. Then there’s the issue of making resolutions that are somehow going to help me create a...
by Tammy Ditmore | Aug 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
For the past couple of years, I’ve been pleased to claim a spot on Liz Broomfield’s Small Business Chat on her LibroEditing website. My latest installment appeared Saturday on the site of Liz Dexter, who hasn’t let a spring wedding get in the way of her efforts to...
by Tammy Ditmore | Jul 20, 2014 | personal reflections
I just returned from a week-long Texas college exploration trip with my soon-to-be 17, soon-to-be high-school-senior son. Covering more than 950 miles on the ground in six days, we toured three Christian universities; savored Tex-Mex, Texas-sized burgers, Texas...
by Tammy Ditmore | Jun 22, 2014 | Alzheimer's, personal reflections
I had two goals in mind when I set up Burgers for Bill as a part of the Alzheimer’s Association’s The Longest Day Campaign: (1) to raise some money to battle this brutal disease; and (2) to give friends and family a chance to remember and honor my father. And I’m...
by Tammy Ditmore | Jun 14, 2014 | Alzheimer's, Events, personal reflections, Uncategorized
Father’s Day hasn’t been an easy day for me since my father started slipping down the rabbit hole of Alzheimer’s disease. It’s not that I don’t want to celebrate my father and all the ways he worked for me and loved me; it’s just that it’s difficult to know how. I...
by Tammy Ditmore | Apr 11, 2014 | Events, Publishing
In 1996, my husband and I took our four-year-old son to the first-ever Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. The main draw for us was a chance for our son to get to meet some of the characters from his favorite PBS shows—none of us remember now which ones. The event,...
by Tammy Ditmore | Mar 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
What a great few days at the 2014 convention of the American Copy Editors Society! I was lucky enough to present a session, “Learning to Speak Scholar,” where I got a chance to share some of the things I’ve learned while working with academic writers in the past 20...
by Tammy Ditmore | Feb 20, 2014 | Editing, Language
One of the best things about working as an independent editor is the wide variety of material I get to read, and glancing back at some of the words and ideas I’ve looked up in the past few days simply makes me smile. I can’t help it; I think words are fun. This...
by Tammy Ditmore | Jan 15, 2014 | Editing, personal reflections
This week I’m marking the third anniversary of eDitmore Editorial Services, and I’m thrilled to be here. There have been ups and downs since I posted my first piece here more than three years ago, but I feel very blessed to be able to say there have been very few...
