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Sensitivity editing – What is it? Who does it? Why?

"A sensitivity read [or sensitivity edit] is a review of a book, script or game before it is published to help avoid portraying marginalised people and cultures inaccurately, including unintentiona...

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Do you need your memoir manuscript typed? For storytellers or hand-writers.

If you want to tell or write your story and get it made into a book, but cannot use a computer, you may want your manuscript typed up for you. The below advice might help you if you (a) want to ...

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Our approach to coaching clients in writing and self-editing

Our approach to coaching clients in writing and self-editing depends on each writer's goals and support needs. In general our approach is as follows. Our approach to coaching you (the writer) Fir...

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Can you sell your books, if you used NDIS-funded supports to help you write them?

If you have used NDIS-funded supports such as writer coaching or storytelling coaching and as a result have self-published a book, can you then sell your books? Yes, you can - although please don't...

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Transforming oral histories into self-published life stories (memoir or autobiography)

Oral histories are stories told by one person to another and recorded and/or documented. They can be about the person’s whole life, just one experience or period of the person's life, or a theme ...

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Our scribes and minute-takers – scribing via telephone, Zoom/online, and face to face

On Time Typing, Editing and Proofreading has five scribes and minute-takers,  based in Darwin (NT), Gippsland (VIC), Cairns (QLD) and Toowoomba (QLD). Our verbatim scribes have passed the On Ti...

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Our editors – memoirs, novels, poetry, non-fiction books; articles, reports

Our diverse team of editors, who live in Bendigo,  Central Gippsland, Mornington and Melbourne, edits poetry, memoir, autobiography, family history, novels and short stories (fiction), non-fiction...

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Our experience in working with diverse clients

We provide typing, writing, editing, self-publishing and coaching services to people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures including First Nations, people who are LGBTQI+, people who are...

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Formatting documents (in Word) – our services

The sort of formatting we do includes: formatting publications, reports or other documents in Word, such as manuscripts (for publications). Formatting may include the insertion of images, tables or...

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