Claire Tucker is a copyeditor and proofreader who works with authors to achieve excellence. Her editorial strengths include helping authors hone their voice as well as heightening suspense at a sentence level. Claire also enjoys helping authors learn more about the publishing process and how to write powerful prose.
Excel for Editors: Using Spreadsheets to Track Your Business
Discover how you can use Microsoft Excel as a tool for keeping track of and analyzing your editing business in this workshop. Intro to Excel, how it works, and some basics; tracking time in Excel (creating time sheets); tracking finance in Excel (calculating your per-hour rates); tracking clients and projects in Excel (tracking word counts, payments, total payments, etc.); analyzing your business and marketing efforts using Excel.
The Pieces of a Puzzle: Editing Scenes Effectively
Discover how to help authors craft gripping scenes that work together to build a powerful story in this workshop. A scene’s basic structure; beginning hook; middle build; ending payoff; the purpose of the scene (scenes verse sequels, key scenes in the story); and assessing a scene in relation to other scenes (avoiding similarities, repetition, varying emotional payoff, etc.)