Author: Suzanne Bowness

Suzanne (Sue) Bowness is a long-time full-time freelancer who focuses on creating long-form content for a variety of clients at her business Codeword Communications. She recently launched a new brand to help other freelancers connect at The Feisty Freelancer.
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Suzanne Bowness: An Editor’s Top 3

May 2, 2024 by Suzanne Bowness | 1 Comment on Suzanne Bowness: An Editor’s Top 3

In this series, experienced editors reflect on their Top 3 tools, rules and suggestions for clients and colleagues. Suzanne Bowness is a writer, editor and communications consultant. She has written for publications from The Globe and Mail to University Affairs magazine. Since 2002, she has provided content creation, editing and consulting services to corporate clients through […]

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Less than 20 Sleeps until Editors Meet in Real Life

June 1, 2023 by Suzanne Bowness | Leave a Comment

Who is ready for a great weekend in Toronto on June 17 and 18? If you plan to attend the Editors In Real Life conference (you read that right; we’re meeting in person!), you’ll be spending the two-day event at Toronto Metropolitan University. You’ll also be able to attend a day of pre-conference sessions hosted […]

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Meeting “In Real Life”: Conference 2023

March 2, 2023 by Suzanne Bowness | 1 Comment on Meeting “In Real Life”: Conference 2023

Raise your hand if you’ve missed meeting in real life (or IRL, as the social media specialists say it). Me too. That’s why we decided to dip our toes into the world of in-person conferences after two years of virtual success, planning a two-day event to be held June 17–18, 2023, at Toronto Metropolitan University […]

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Long Live Long-time Freelancing

July 5, 2022 by Suzanne Bowness | 7 Comments on Long Live Long-time Freelancing

My name is Sue, and I’m a long-time, full-time freelancer. While most of the time I’m in the trees of my business, once in a while I zoom out to the forest and think about how different my way of working has been from that of other people. For 20 years, I’ve been the only […]

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A Little Help From My Friends: Starting a Mastermind Group

July 27, 2021 by Suzanne Bowness | Leave a Comment

Are you a senior-level freelancer looking to connect with same-level colleagues for advice? Or a junior in-house editor looking for pals for support on the journey up the career ladder? Wherever you are in your career, creating a “mastermind group” of fellow professionals to meet and talk shop with regularly can be a great way […]

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Teaching Editing

March 9, 2021 by Suzanne Bowness | Leave a Comment

Explaining your craft can help clarify editing for both newcomers and clients It’s one thing to have fantastic editorial skills, to know through years of reading, then training, then working, when a sentence sounds right or a piece flows nicely. But if you’re looking to take your communications to the next level, challenge yourself to […]

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Learnings from LinkedIn: Optimize for Success

October 27, 2020 by Suzanne Bowness | 1 Comment on Learnings from LinkedIn: Optimize for Success

As I write this, I’m in the midst of marking 80 LinkedIn profiles. You read that right: in both of my online writing courses this term, I’ve assigned LinkedIn profiles as task number one. That’s how important I think they are to students embarking on a new career path. Part public resumé, part networking channel, […]

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