Nicola Bigwood | Proofreader, Copyeditor, former Translator ✍️📚
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Nicola Bigwood | Proofreader, Copyeditor, former Translator ✍️📚
@nicolabigwood.uk
Proofreader & copyeditor of fiction & non-fiction, with background as a translator into English from French & German • CIEP Professional member • She/her • https://linktr.ee/nicolabigwood • Learning Italian, Welsh, Irish, Gaelic… slowly! 📍Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
‘Stet’ is a note made by editors or proofreaders to indicate that something in a text should be ‘left as is’. A ‘stet walk’ became a reference to editors taking a break from work, getting away from the screen. Not sure where, when or how it started, but it caught on back in the old days of Twitter.
October 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Have it noted on the style sheet so the proofreader doesn’t query it too!
October 22, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I learned from previous years not to get too booked up around the #CIEP conference, and I was doing well at keeping a few days clear for a breather – until a publisher had to push back some project dates… 🙈😄 Thank heavens for the recordings! 🙌
September 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I’ll have to look into it and see how I do! (I’ve also yet to try socks!) I admit, I’ve knitted quite a few scarves 😄 But also a cardigan and a couple of jumpers. I’m slowly doing a blanket for winter with some lovely soft, fluffy yarn 😊
September 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Nice! Love variegated yarn 😊 Do you prefer knitting or crochet? I’ve never tried crochet but keep wondering if I should (especially when I come across a nice pattern I can’t do because it’s not for knitting! 😄).
September 2, 2025 at 12:30 PM
What has it got in its headphonses, precious? 🎧 Listening to Andy Serkis’ amazing narration of the Lord of the Rings books – now on Return of the King 👑

#AmReading #BookSky 💙📚🪐
a man with long hair is holding a ring in his hands and eating it .
Alt: Andy Serkis as Sméagol in the film of Return of the King, holding the One Ring in both hands and mouthing the word ‘Precious’.
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July 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM