Alison Ward
@theeditingward.bsky.social
Freelance editor and proofreader (academic, medical, legal). Copy editor for content teams. Lover of running, red pens, and coffee.
www.TheEditingWard.com
www.TheEditingWard.com
Thank goodness, the Black Friday emails are done! 100-200 a day (?!).
Cyber Monday: Hold my beer.
Cyber Monday: Hold my beer.
elmo the sesame street character is sitting on a shelf
Alt: Elmo from Sesame Street looks sad and then folds in on himself to hide in the box he was sitting on.
media.tenor.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Thank goodness, the Black Friday emails are done! 100-200 a day (?!).
Cyber Monday: Hold my beer.
Cyber Monday: Hold my beer.
Reposted by Alison Ward
Did you know you can hire me to review your marketing plan, collaborate with you on writing your annual Owner's Master Plan, help your salespeople get more out of the LinkedIn algorithm, and do other short-term projects designed to help your business grow?
Let's connect!
Let's connect!
November 18, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Did you know you can hire me to review your marketing plan, collaborate with you on writing your annual Owner's Master Plan, help your salespeople get more out of the LinkedIn algorithm, and do other short-term projects designed to help your business grow?
Let's connect!
Let's connect!
I’m sorry I’m going to miss my #FreelanceFriends today! Planning to catch up later. Hope everyone is doing well 💛.
November 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I’m sorry I’m going to miss my #FreelanceFriends today! Planning to catch up later. Hope everyone is doing well 💛.
Reposted by Alison Ward
Do you need an editor asap? I've had a project moved at the last minute and so I have one slot available!
Contact me via email so we can see what you and your book need.
(I specialise in Fantasy and Science Fiction, but also work on all Speculative Fiction subgenres. 13 years' industry experience.)
Contact me via email so we can see what you and your book need.
(I specialise in Fantasy and Science Fiction, but also work on all Speculative Fiction subgenres. 13 years' industry experience.)
October 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Do you need an editor asap? I've had a project moved at the last minute and so I have one slot available!
Contact me via email so we can see what you and your book need.
(I specialise in Fantasy and Science Fiction, but also work on all Speculative Fiction subgenres. 13 years' industry experience.)
Contact me via email so we can see what you and your book need.
(I specialise in Fantasy and Science Fiction, but also work on all Speculative Fiction subgenres. 13 years' industry experience.)
Forgot to add #FreelanceFriends. Also, if you have resumes saved from past applications, they may be included.
Quick FYI: As of Nov. 3, LI will be officially using profiles, posts, comments, etc. to train their generative AI. Apparently also sharing data with Microsoft and affiliated companies. You can opt out in your settings, and supposedly your DMs will not be used.
#TheMoreYouKnow
#TheMoreYouKnow
October 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Forgot to add #FreelanceFriends. Also, if you have resumes saved from past applications, they may be included.
Quick FYI: As of Nov. 3, LI will be officially using profiles, posts, comments, etc. to train their generative AI. Apparently also sharing data with Microsoft and affiliated companies. You can opt out in your settings, and supposedly your DMs will not be used.
#TheMoreYouKnow
#TheMoreYouKnow
October 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Quick FYI: As of Nov. 3, LI will be officially using profiles, posts, comments, etc. to train their generative AI. Apparently also sharing data with Microsoft and affiliated companies. You can opt out in your settings, and supposedly your DMs will not be used.
#TheMoreYouKnow
#TheMoreYouKnow
Being a grown-up lacks a proper reward system.
My morning: Got a flu shot. Our library system is running a sock drive. Managed to donate socks AND not buy books at the book sale (first time for everything)!
No one clapped. Didn’t even get a sticker.
My morning: Got a flu shot. Our library system is running a sock drive. Managed to donate socks AND not buy books at the book sale (first time for everything)!
No one clapped. Didn’t even get a sticker.
October 21, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Being a grown-up lacks a proper reward system.
My morning: Got a flu shot. Our library system is running a sock drive. Managed to donate socks AND not buy books at the book sale (first time for everything)!
No one clapped. Didn’t even get a sticker.
My morning: Got a flu shot. Our library system is running a sock drive. Managed to donate socks AND not buy books at the book sale (first time for everything)!
No one clapped. Didn’t even get a sticker.
I got to spend last week getting lost in nature. The return to screens is making me extra grumpy this morning. To coffee! #AmEditing
October 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I got to spend last week getting lost in nature. The return to screens is making me extra grumpy this morning. To coffee! #AmEditing
Lovely seeing all of you! Until next time, Good Trouble, signing off (going to try and make this a thing 😜). #FreelanceFriends
September 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Lovely seeing all of you! Until next time, Good Trouble, signing off (going to try and make this a thing 😜). #FreelanceFriends
Q1 (and only!): And 2-learning that I should incorporate the administrative side of things into my billing/pricing structure. That changed everything. #FreelanceFriends (2/2)
September 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Q1 (and only!): And 2-learning that I should incorporate the administrative side of things into my billing/pricing structure. That changed everything. #FreelanceFriends (2/2)
Q1 (and only!): The two biggest for me were 1-learning to say no (I do my best work when I can tunnel into something and give it my everything, not when I’m juggling multiple deadlines and afraid to not accept everything that comes my way). #FreelanceFriends (1/2)
September 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Q1 (and only!): The two biggest for me were 1-learning to say no (I do my best work when I can tunnel into something and give it my everything, not when I’m juggling multiple deadlines and afraid to not accept everything that comes my way). #FreelanceFriends (1/2)
Strong match: my foot and their behind. So very grateful to be working. I haven't used the site that emailed this to me in many, many years. Definitely not an active profile. Be kind to those seeking work; this is what they’re seeing. #Editor #FreelanceFriends
September 15, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Strong match: my foot and their behind. So very grateful to be working. I haven't used the site that emailed this to me in many, many years. Definitely not an active profile. Be kind to those seeking work; this is what they’re seeing. #Editor #FreelanceFriends
As requested, #FreelanceFriends These are insanely good. And named by people who wouldn’t stop eating them 😊.
Projects submitted to new client. I can’t go burn off the nervous energy as I await feedback, so I made Evil Genius Rice Krispie Treats: Rice Krispies, marshmallows, peanut butter, drizzle of honey, and rough chopped salted peanuts.
August 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
As requested, #FreelanceFriends These are insanely good. And named by people who wouldn’t stop eating them 😊.
Always nice to talk to all of you. Have a wonderful weekend! #FreelanceFriends
August 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Always nice to talk to all of you. Have a wonderful weekend! #FreelanceFriends
I’m late, but I’m here! Consulting editor reporting in from Central NJ. In the midst of several projects and struggling to engage the part of my brain that posts on social media. Pleased to report I have grown tomatoes for the first time in my life! #FreelanceFriends
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I’m late, but I’m here! Consulting editor reporting in from Central NJ. In the midst of several projects and struggling to engage the part of my brain that posts on social media. Pleased to report I have grown tomatoes for the first time in my life! #FreelanceFriends
Why do people yell while hiking? You wouldn’t open the door to someone’s house and scream in. Why do it when out in such beautiful scenery (that is decidedly not your living room)? Anyway…morning view from a favorite hiking spot.
August 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Why do people yell while hiking? You wouldn’t open the door to someone’s house and scream in. Why do it when out in such beautiful scenery (that is decidedly not your living room)? Anyway…morning view from a favorite hiking spot.
#FreelanceFriends, missing tomorrow, so I present my delicious/ugly baking accident: Cinnamon Blob Bread. When your dough is too elastic, you can’t do repeated wait and rises, and you have to get back to work. Throw your cinnamon roll log into a greased 9x13 (ends cut to fit), and bake!
August 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
#FreelanceFriends, missing tomorrow, so I present my delicious/ugly baking accident: Cinnamon Blob Bread. When your dough is too elastic, you can’t do repeated wait and rises, and you have to get back to work. Throw your cinnamon roll log into a greased 9x13 (ends cut to fit), and bake!
Still sort of here (?). Having all sorts of app problems. May have to just accept it and try to catch up later. #FreelanceFriends
August 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Still sort of here (?). Having all sorts of app problems. May have to just accept it and try to catch up later. #FreelanceFriends
I have to run (need to look proper for an upcoming Zoom 😇), but wishing all of you a happy, peaceful August filled with rewarding work, or rest, or vacations…you get the idea. Talk soon! #FreelanceFriends
July 31, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I have to run (need to look proper for an upcoming Zoom 😇), but wishing all of you a happy, peaceful August filled with rewarding work, or rest, or vacations…you get the idea. Talk soon! #FreelanceFriends
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Also, I have space for a few more author coaching clients, should that be helpful to anyone. DMs are open if you have questions.
One of my author coaching clients is juggling so many things right now, and it's a good reminder that a huge part of getting any big thing done is project management—and that can be especially true of writing a book. Finding slivers of time isn't always easy, but we have to, right?
July 30, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Also, I have space for a few more author coaching clients, should that be helpful to anyone. DMs are open if you have questions.
I am the proud owner of a running shirt that shows what the inside of my brain looks like! Worth sharing.
July 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I am the proud owner of a running shirt that shows what the inside of my brain looks like! Worth sharing.
Closed my laptop this afternoon and went for a long walk. So heartened to see that someone had stocked the local LFLs with YA and middle grade novels in great condition! Looks like I’m not the only book fairy in town.
July 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Closed my laptop this afternoon and went for a long walk. So heartened to see that someone had stocked the local LFLs with YA and middle grade novels in great condition! Looks like I’m not the only book fairy in town.
Attention people of the world: If I can smell you before you reach me, or long after you leave, YOU’RE WEARING TOO MUCH FRAGRANCE!
That is all.
That is all.
a cartoon drawing of a skunk holding a pink box
Alt: Cartoon skunk Pepe Le Pew applying multiple fragrances to mask his odor.
media.tenor.com
July 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Attention people of the world: If I can smell you before you reach me, or long after you leave, YOU’RE WEARING TOO MUCH FRAGRANCE!
That is all.
That is all.