Past issues
Which dictionary I open first, and why
Two dictionaries on the desk, a pencil and the order I reach for them.
Reading your draft aloud, in a quiet room
The cheapest way I know to hear what is wrong with a translation.
A word with no English twin
Nine ways I could have translated one word, and the one I chose.
Marking up my own first draft in red
What I circle, what I cross out and what I leave alone on a first pass.
Sending my first sample to an agency
One page, one short note and a long wait by the window.
Free
The Red Pen
A numbered letter every Sunday from my desk in Amman: one hard sentence, one choice and one thing to try.