WordsAnd | Alan Maass

Freelance editorial and writing services, plus lots of opinions about what I read

[WordsAnd | Alan Maass @WordsAndEditing]

I’m Alan Maass, and https://t.co/2qhgEWTNaV is my editorial services business. I have 35 years of experience in all aspects of publishing and media, spanning the print and online worlds. Please visit my website and tell me what you think. https://t.co/5lLjVyUqgf

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@IvaCheung I'm sorry, but no, not if they turn up their nose at brown butter. That's just, y'know, not right...

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"The delight in telling a moment: the world turned over by a sudden encounter of unacquainted thoughts."
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[Patty Boyd 📄 🖊️💡 @Dottyeyes]

@ArrantPedantry Now that our culture is more and more "anything goes," LinkedIn, by affording us the nagging sense that we should be doing something, provides the necessary guilt that is missing from our lives.

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Jacobin event, September 20 at the Riverside Church in NYC: Bernie Sanders press secretary @briebriejoy and Princeton professor and Jacobin columnist @KeeangaYamahtta on what a President Sanders administration could mean for racial justice in America. https://t.co/NDJpeltGlR

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Okay, so the headline just repeats a self-evident truth for all times and places, but there is a lot of, lot of fabulous insights into storytelling, history, and how to try to stop the end of the world.
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This is my must-read of the weekend: a fantastic story told really well that had me wishing I could travel back in time to hear W. E. B. Du Bois. https://t.co/Xa6PQRr3ZC

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@marindaplease Hi, I’m new to freelancing after many years in publishing. My early projects have been nonfiction editing in all phases of a project and content strategy and management on website projects for organizations and businesses.

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@GreyEditing I owe @GreyEditing big time for the sage advice!

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The New York Times' newly unveiled 1619 Project has already published some incredible writing. Latest installment: https://t.co/7X29vALGL0

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@spellegance Summer vacations of childhood spent on grandparent's Wisconsin dairy farm, so....definitely. I think onomatopoeia helps even if you haven't set foot (having avoided a cowpat) on a farm.

[WordsAnd | Alan Maass @WordsAndEditing]

"Line editing is the ultimate union of writer and editor...It is a gift of trust, and it must go both ways." https://t.co/XS4NBc7t8p

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Hi @EFAFreelancers: I'm a new #EFAMember and just getting my business twitter account going, so please follow me and add me to the members list!

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Hubert Harrison was one of the first black socialists in the United States, a fierce champion of racial equality, and a pioneering analyst of how capitalists use racism to divide the working class. He deserves to be remembered. https://t.co/GXWaduSSL1