Susan Green Ink

Writer, Editor & Storyteller

What’s new? Maybe news itself

News has always been hard to define, even in the pre-Internet days when people got their news from a dedicated print or broadcast source. For those of us who come from a traditional American news media background, news tends to mean people or happenings of public interest near and far. We believe true news should be told objectively, with coverage

That witch! And other common curses of the English language

One of the more frequent errors I see as an editor is confusion over what relative pronouns to use to introduce a descriptive collection of words. Years ago, when I was taking a college course in magazine writing, one of my classmates gifted me with an enduring reminder of the need to pay attention to relative pronouns. The professor had just

Know your audience

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of