At Word Monster, we’re no stranger to love/hate relationships. We love working remotely, but hate having to put on a smart shirt for Zoom calls with clients. The parents among us love our kids, but hate having to bribe them to be quiet while trying to attend said Zoom calls. We even love our clients, […]

Writing good be hard. But it doesn’t have to be (as hard). We’re sharing the hidden aces up our sleeves – the cards we pull out whenever we’re writing with bite, or if we find ourselves in a writing pickle or a word jam. Here are our five favourite (and free) tools that we think […]

So, we’re going to be working together again… or, for some of us, for the first time ever. While the majority will have distant memories of what office working used to be like pre‑COVID, there is a whole generation out there who have yet to step foot in a physical office space. And – let’s […]

“Freelancers make the world go round.” OK, so that might be a bit of a stretch, but freelancers definitely help to keep our world at Word Monster spinning on its axis. Not only do we employ a team of permanent writers (who, incidentally, work as freelancers for other Med Comms agencies), but we also have […]

Here at Word Monster, we have a secret: we’re actually in committed relationships with hundreds of people whom we’ve never physically met before. We must say, it’s a difficult and delicate balancing act; we can’t have everyone on the go at the same time. Some people need our undivided attention, while others come, get what […]

Ah, January – we meet again. Where exactly did 2020 go? Given that the vast majority of the year passed in a blur within the confinements of our own homes and/or fighting over toilet paper in the supermarkets (and that’s only for the lucky ones), it’s easy to understand why the saying “time flies” is […]

It’s cool to be kind, and there’s been a real movement in recent years encouraging us to actively be more kind to one another (and to ourselves). The importance of wellbeing in the workplace has also become topical of late, and kindness as a concept feeds directly into this. Those stale and outdated notions that […]

‘Concentration’ can mean a number of different things, but for the purposes of this blog, let’s (try to) focus on what it means for us in the workplace. Don’t know about you, but we relish those times when we can put our heads down, keep the outside world ‘out’, and focus all of our attention […]

“Have you ever considered a career in Medical Communications?” “Yes… Tell me more.” And that was the big fat lie upon which my career in MedComms was built. The real truth being, up until that exact moment in time, I hadn’t the foggiest what MedComms was. Fresh (relatively speaking) from completing my PhD, the hunt […]

A new year, a new decade, a new flurry of blog posts to commemorate the start of 2020. Rest assured, this isn’t one of them. Instead, and more significantly to me, it’s also been one year since I first began working at Word Monster (or 13 months, to be more precise – but December never […]

You’ve probably heard the urban legend of the Oxford University applicant who, when told to get his interviewer’s attention, lit the dustbin on fire. And we’re pretty much now used to the frenzied scrutiny that accompanies a certain President’s every handshake whenever he meets another President, Prime Minister, or our very own Queen Liz (Fist […]