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How’s 2019 working out for you so far? The beginning of the year is a great time for forward planning; taking concrete steps towards creating your goals for the year can help you maintain some of those resolutions you embarked on so enthusiastically just 10 days ago. Practicing what we preach, we’ve planned 12 topics for monthly blog posts in 2019. As we edit clients’ writing, we tend to find the same issues arising repeatedly. Often, they’re areas we have to watch for in our own writing also. With this in mind, our 12 blog posts for this year – to be published on the second Friday of each month – will focus on 12 frequently occurring errors/problems. We start with what is arguably the most common issue of all; the use – and misuse – of the humble hyphen. To hyphenate, or not to hyphenate? ...

Since we last posted there have been a lot of changes at Prompt Proofing. We’ve been MIA for a few months as far as our blog is concerned and the changes we’ve experienced this past summer are part of the reason for this. We’ve moved By far the biggest change at our end is that Prompt Proofing has moved! We’ve recently relocated from Victoria BC to Stratford Ontario – a distance of some 3300 kilometres. Of course, when not working for our valued clients, this has meant I was kept pretty busy with staging, selling, packing, moving, buying and renovating… All moves are stressful, right? Nonetheless, I have to say that this particular move did not – to put it mildly – go well! We arrived in Ontario with two suitcases, only to learn that the truc ...

This coming weekend marks the beginning of Daylight Saving Time for much of North America – an event that is generally seen as a precursor for spring. In fact, here on Canada’s west coast, spring is already well underway with flowers and blossom blooming valiantly, even if the temperatures are still a little chilly… And there’s nothing like spring to provoke new beginnings and fresh approaches, right? Right! For me, the start of spring, far more than January 1 (when it’s dark before 5pm and there are at least two full months of winter weather to ‘look forward’ to) is when I get encouraged to spring clean, freshen up, redecorate the house, get creative, plant a garden, reorganize my kitchen, etc. etc. So, when it comes to your business, it’s l ...