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Sally-Anne Watson Kane’s editing experience
Sally-Anne Watson Kane is a professional member of Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) (Australia), full member and Secretary of Life Stories Australia, and full member of Oral History Victori...
Our scribes and minute-takers – scribing via telephone, Zoom and face to face
On Time Typing, Editing and Proofreading has five scribes and minute-takers. We are based in Gippsland (VIC), Geelong (VIC), Cairns (QLD), Toowoomba (QLD), and Alice Springs (NT). Sally-Anne ...
Nobody’s perfect
Are you a freelancer or run your own business? If so, you probably want your work to be perfect - especially if, like me, you run a typing, editing and writing business. You probably also want to a...
On Time Typing, Editing and Proofreading publications
We produce books 'from go to whoa': i.e., from manuscript (and/or spoken word) stage, through editing and design, to printed self-published book stage. The following publications have been produ...
Free offer: memoir about mental illness, child abuse and survival
This article has been written and published on behalf of Joan Sammon, for whom I edited and produced a memoir, A life: I am what I am! Background Joan Sammon grew up in Sydney. She is schizophr...
Turning oral histories into self-published life stories (memoir or autobiography)
Oral histories are stories told by a person to another person or into a recorder. They can be about the person's whole life, or about just one or multiple experiences or periods in their life. ...
Structural or developmental editing – what is it?
Once a manuscript has been written and self-edited by the writer to the stage where they feel they can't improve it any more themselves, it needs to be edited by a professional editor. Structura...
Scribing dictation, minute-taking and report-writing – our clients
On Time Typing, Editing and Proofreading scribes verbatim or summary notes (as required) and writes minutes and reports. We scribe dictation, interviews, meetings and discussions. Our method o...
‘Hold your head up high’ by Garry Chippindall (dec)
Garry Chippindall began writing his memoir in 1999 when diagnosed with cancer. He sought help from life story writer Sally-Anne Watson Kane (owner/operator of OTTEP), and began regular scribing ses...
Collaborative poetry editing
One way to edit something as personal and subjective as a poem, or a collection of poems, is to edit it in very close consultation with the poet. When editing a poem or manuscript for a book of ...