Beth Hill Blog Analysis

Beth Hill is a highly regarded publisher, editor, and writer of fiction. Hill has published two books that focus on her passion for editing: "The Magic of Fiction, Crafting Words into Stories. The Writer's Guide to Writing and Editing" and "Punctuation in Dialogue." As of now, Hill does most of her work behind a computer screen through the use of her online editing service, "A Novel Edit." Hill also relies heavily on her blog, "The Editor's Blog," as a source of interaction with others within the writing and editing community.

Looking through Hill's blog, I have noticed a few things that are quite striking. For one, her layout is very simple and easy to navigate. Also, the color scheme of her blog is quite like what you would expect for a stereotypical writer and editor to have - black and white. The only colors on the blog are ones used in a few pictures, or the pictures of the books that she has published. Hill's blog seems to be extremely useful in the sense that it goes straight to the post and most of the posts are not long-winded. Everything that Hill posts has a purpose, and if that post is long, then it needed to be long to fulfill its purpose.

While I would like to say that every blog written by a professional writer or editor is always going to be fun and interesting, I just cannot lie like that. While reading through Hill's blog, I noticed that a lot of her posts seemed like she could not find a good balance between cut and dry, and adding personal antidotes. I would have liked to see more of a personal side of her come out through some of her writing - instead of her trying to sound extremely formal in some pieces. I also wish that some of the things she says in a few of her posts would make great stand-alone quotes that could have easily been emphasized with changing the text font or color (or even pulled the quote out and place it separately on the page). Overall, Hill's blog did a good job in what it set out to do: aid in the writing and editing process for fellow writers and editors.