WordPower_Publishing_Writing_Editorial

      “I went to school. I can write well enough to do my job,” you may say. Or: “I’ve taken writing courses. I’m confident of my skills.” The truth is, even if you’re a pretty good writer, or even an excellent one, it takes another set of eyes - trained eyes - to catch every last typo, grammatical error, misuse of a word, or spelling mistake. (Your spell checker doesn’t know the difference between a blue moon and bleu cheese.)

      It takes a special kind of mind to find and correct leaps of logic, omissions, wordiness, jargon and whatever else might ail your report, brochure, manual, press release, web page, academic paper, article, story or book (fiction or non-fiction).

      That’s where we come in. We help you communicate clearly. We help you look good and sound good while maintaining your own style. And for those times when you simply don’t have the time to write it yourself, we’ll do it for you. We help you make your point.

Our Philosophy
       Our philosophy is summarized in our goal: clarity, quality, efficiency, achieved with honesty and integrity. In whatever service we provide for you, we work quickly and accurately. We’re interested in doing the best work possible, for your sake - and ours.

Our Experience
        Marian Van Til is the primary writer and editor for WordPower Publishing’s Writing & Editorial Services. She has more than two decades of writing and editing experience in newspapers, magazines, journals and on the web. Marian is helped by others, as necessary.
        Marian is the former editor and managing editor of a religious newsweekly with an international audience and has edited for a major academic publisher. She is the published author of articles on a large variety of subjects in a wide range of genres: film reviews, music and book reviews, biographical and autobiographical sketches, news stories and investigative reports, newsletters, editorials, analysis pieces, meditations, academic papers and personnel and information manuals. In June 2007 WordPower Publishing published Marian’s first full-length book, a biography called George Frideric Handel: A Music Lover's Guide. Her second book, Confessions of a Cataholic will be released on October 31.

Services offered
+We accept writing or editing projects in both American and Canadian English.

Writing
Business & nonprofit
For churches, schools, organizations
Personal/family
+ We write brochures, newsletters, press releases, promotional material, in-house documents and personnel manuals, and easily readable technical documents for which you supply the content.
+ We will write non-fiction works of any length, on a variety of subjects, based on material you supply. (if you are a student we will not, however, write for you what your instructors expect you to write yourself.)
We write website copy.
Do you have something else in mind? Tell us about your project. We’ll tell you if we can help.

Editing
Substantive (developmental) editing
Copyediting
Proofreading

+We accept material of all lengths, on many subjects.
Personal
      Business
      Non-profit and churches, community organizations, schools, newspapers
      Academic

What’s the difference between substantive editing, copy editing and proofreading?

       Substantive editing goes deepest. It starts with the ideas the writer wants to convey and helps the writer shape and order those ideas into a coherent piece of readable, publishable writing.

       Copy editing tweaks and spruces up content while looking for inconsistencies, illogic and lack of flow. At the same time it corrects grammatical and spelling errors and may also involve fact checking.

       Proofreading is the final step before a piece goes to press -- whether to ink on paper or via electronic means. It catches any minor mistakes that may have remained after copy editing.
    Ad copy may need proofreading, a newsletter or web page may need copy editing, or a book manuscript, story or essay may need substantive editing. But the lines between the three are not always stark or immovable. Perhaps you’ll have an inkling before you submit your work what kind of editing it needs. Or perhaps not. Either way, we’ll quickly evaluate your submission and let you know what we think it needs. We’ll then give you an estimated cost to do whatever needs doing.