Helping with your business and personal writing needs
Welcome to Writing Allsorts!
We love to help in any way we can but especially with writing, editing and proofreading. Pretty simple!
We’re an international organisation with offices in Blenheim, New Zealand and Chula Visa, California, USA.
Writing Allsorts is predominantly about writing, editing and proofreading but we’re business owners too. So we target two areas – corporate to small-medium businesses, and authors.
See our list of what we offer below…
We edit and proofread to ensure your writing is clear, tight and easily understood by your audience.
A list of what areas we can help you with can be found here.
Whether you’re an established author or a novice, we can help you polish your manuscript so that it’s ready for the next step whether your goal is to be traditionally published or self-published.
A list of the genres we edit and proofread can be found here.
Not sure what service you require – editing or proofreading – click here for definitions and our rates.
One of the questions we ask when we get an edit request is: Do you plan to self-publish or publish traditionally? More and more the answer comes back that they want to self-publish. If you plan to publish traditionally, often the publisher will give you their formatting requirements, or they will format your manuscript during … Continue reading Formatting Your Manuscript
As authors, we’re all taught to develop our story primarily through our characters. We’re taught to paint detailed descriptions of our characters, use conflict, flashbacks and other methods to let the reader form images. Images of our protagonist, our antagonist, our hero, their lover and our stories supporting cast. But what about other story elements? … Continue reading Adding Visual Impact to Your Story – Part 1: Letting your scenes tell your story
I have just posted my completed manuscript off to the digital editor and in doing so, instead of being highly excited and jumping for joy, I experienced a deep emotional wrenching that had me crying into my hands. I wasn’t sure if it was because I was just exhausted from the nearly two-year process or it was because I was handing something precious, a part of my heart and soul to the world to pass judgement on. However, I did have the comfort in knowing that this manuscript was the best it could be and part of this I have to thank Writing Allsorts. Robyn and Bob completed the proofreading and the results were excellent, despite my requesting a very tight timeframe. They added suggestions, offered advice and most importantly, gave me support at a time when I was wobbly and losing confidence. I submitted a manuscript which looks professional, has been assessed by experts and I am one very gratified author. Chris Stuart. “For Reasons of their Own.”
“Robyn provided my novel The Promise with the finishing polish. She was professional to deal with and delivered exactly when and what she said she would for an excellent and competitive price point. I have no hesitation in recommending her services.”
“Thank you for a very thorough editing and proofreading on my book The Executive Guide to Conference and Event Management. I would have no hesitation in recommending Robyn for her excellent proofreading skills. She brought her knowledge of the field I was writing about which was an added dimension to her proofreading and helped me in thinking about the structure of the book as well – very valuable.”
Eth Lloyd, MNZM, M Ed, AAPNZ (Life, Fellow, Cert)
