Sue Randall

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=145 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="16500963.jpg"> <div> <B> </B><B>Sue Randall</B></div> <div>      <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#990000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT>Editing and Writing</div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=190 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <div> <B>HOME</B></div> <div> <A HREF="sue_randall_editing.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Editing Services"><B>Editing Services</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="writing_services.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Writing services"><B>Writing services</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="medicolegal.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Medicolegal report"><B>Medicolegal report</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="writing_course.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Writers network"><B>Writers' network</B></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=335 width="100%" style=" border-top: 5px solid #FFFFFF; border-left: 5px solid #FFFFFF;" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <div> You know what you want to say and who you want to say it to.  You've got the ideas but not the words.  Or you've got the words, but they don't sound right.  So you read what you've written and then you read it again.  You read it to your secretary, your colleague, your spouse.  Someone comes up with a better idea but you can't get it into clear English.  </div> <bR> <div> Don't waste any more time!  What you need is a professional writer and editor.  Someone who can take your fledgling ideas and knock them into shape on your behalf, leaving you free to focus on whatever it is that you're best at.</div> <bR> <div> As an editor and writer, I work with all kinds of material including:</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066003300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">business documents</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066003300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">academic articles and theses (to doctoral level)</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066003300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">fiction</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066003300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">poetry</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066003300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">true life stories</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066003300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">creative writing as therapy</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066003300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">writing mentorship</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066003300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">medicolegal reports</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066003300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">ghostwriting</div> <bR> <div> My clients include organisations and private individuals.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>Fees and terms</B></I></div> <bR> <div> When contacting me for an editing quote, please send a few pages of <I>typical </I>sample text together with your email query. </div> <bR> <div> <I><B>I charge per hour</B></I>, and require a deposit of about 50% (of the total estimated fee) before starting the job. The final cost is calculated after I have finished the job and the deposit is deducted from that. Payment must be made in full before the edited document will be returned to the client.</div> <bR> <div> Kindly use the following guidelines to work out roughly how much your job will cost, and decide whether you want to proceed before contacting me:</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066003300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">One page includes about 350 words. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066003300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Light editing or proof-reading takes about 5 minutes per page (e.g. excellent writing by an author whose first language is English).</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066003300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The average project needs medium editing, at 12 to 15 minutes per page.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066003300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Heavy editing or rewriting takes up to 30 minutes per page (e.g. English is the author's second language, and s/he has a poor ability to structure clear sentences but has made use of convoluted academic phrases).</div> <bR> <bR> <div> To see what I can offer you in the way of editing, writing and statistical research, please click on the links to the left.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="637" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP ROWSPAN=3 HEIGHT= 1 WIDTH="267"><div> A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and, having found what is true, to project it in such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it. </div> <div> <I><B>Ernest Hemingway: </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>The Problems of a Writer in War Time</B></I><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#330066" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP ROWSPAN=2 COLSPAN=2 WIDTH="357"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="357" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="50"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="148" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="50" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><bR> <bR> <div> The world of reality has its limits; the world of the imagination is boundless.</div> <div> <I><B>Jean-Jacques Rousseau</B></I></div> <div>  </div> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="5" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="606" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#330066" BORDERCOLORDARK="#330066" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 299 WIDTH="588"><div> <B>email:</B><B> writing@mystory.co.za</B></div> <bR> <div> <I>Qualifications</I></div> <div> BA (English, psychology), BA Hons (psychology), MA (research psychology) - all degrees cum laude.</div> <div> Lifeline I and II counselling courses</div> <div> Art therapy diploma</div> <div>  </div> <div> <I>Affiliation</I></div> <div> Professional Editors' Group of South Africa</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.editors.org.za" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.editors.org.za">http://www.editors.org.za</A></div> <bR> <div> <I>My books</I></div> <div> <A HREF="sue_randal_published_works_son_description.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Books"><B>South of Nirvana</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="sue_randal_published_works_s_a_description.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Books"><B>Snakes and Angels</B></A></div> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>6 January 2010</B></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>