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Marianne Grier

Editing: An Essentialist Craft?

avril 30, 2019 by Marianne Grier | 2 commentaires sur Editing: An Essentialist Craft?

The new “essentialism” is having a moment. While many of us have been trying to cram in more — to fill every unfilled moment so that we’re more productive — some are starting to scale things back. To amble through life more slowly, focus on what’s important, take time to breathe. The new year brought […]

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Christina Vasilevski

Usability Testing From an Editor’s Perspective

avril 23, 2019 by Christina Vasilevski

This post is part of a new series of case studies by and for in-house editors. The focus of this series is on the personal experiences and various roles of in-house editors. A post will appear on the Editors’ Weekly every other month. If you’re interested in writing a post for this series, please email the Member Services Committee.  […]

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Anita Jenkins

Getting Paid a Living Wage: The Editor’s Constant Challenge

avril 16, 2019 by Anita Jenkins | 3 commentaires sur Getting Paid a Living Wage: The Editor’s Constant Challenge

I have been retired, or semi-retired, for almost a decade now. My career as a freelance writer and editor has gradually given way to new and different pursuits. But recently, a couple of projects for pay showed up in my inbox, and I succumbed. One was related to local history, a lifelong passion of mine. […]

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James Harbeck

Digital Enhancement for Numbers (Go Figures!)

avril 9, 2019 by James Harbeck | 4 commentaires sur Digital Enhancement for Numbers (Go Figures!)

At the ACES conference in Providence, Rhode Island, in late March, the Associated Press announced changes to their recommendations for handling numbers and debated some others. About sixty percent of those present gasped when one of the recommendations was made — in fact, it might have been 70 percent. No, I’m going with 80% of […]

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Katharine O'Moore-Klopf

Editorial Self-Care: Managing Life Changes

avril 2, 2019 by Katharine O'Moore-Klopf | 10 commentaires sur Editorial Self-Care: Managing Life Changes

As editors, we tend to comfort ourselves by thinking that we have everything under control, because what is editing? It’s controlling the words. But control is an illusion. Style guides change. Our lives change. Life changes greatly affect the quality of our editing and our lives. What life changes might you expect? Your financial situation […]

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Kate Johnson

No Perfection Unless You’re a Sunset

mars 26, 2019 by Kate Johnson | 7 commentaires sur No Perfection Unless You’re a Sunset

Those who read are an exacting bunch. We grew up with professionally proofread books, back when publishers could still afford to pay someone to make sure no spelling mistake got by, no errant comma, sneaky typo, sloppy grammar or lazy punctuation. We had high expectations of our reading material. Now we tend to notice when […]

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Wilf Popoff

Wasted Words: The Torments of Editing

mars 19, 2019 by Wilf Popoff | 3 commentaires sur Wasted Words: The Torments of Editing

When I began writing this article I knew, like most of you, that editing is an unhealthy occupation. It’s so fraught with hazards it’s a wonder anyone will sell us health or life insurance. We sit long hours, our work is mentally taxing, we stare at monitors, our physical effort amounts to repetitive flexing of […]

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John Cords

Reflections of a Managing Editor

mars 12, 2019 by John Cords | 10 commentaires sur Reflections of a Managing Editor

When I started my current job managing a team of editors, I panicked. I had no idea what a manager did. Seven years on, I’ve learned a few things. Some days I feel like I’m still stumbling along, but I’d like to share some tips I’ve picked up along the way. Personality When I took […]

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Nancy Flight

40 Years: An Editor’s Perspective

mars 5, 2019 by Nancy Flight | 3 commentaires sur 40 Years: An Editor’s Perspective

Forty-six years ago, when I embarked on my editing career, my first assignment was to edit a 500-page novel, which the publisher plunked onto my desk along with a copy of The Chicago Manual of Style and a dictionary. “Here, edit this,” he said. That was my instruction in its entirety. There were no courses […]

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Frances Peck

Freedom to Read, Willingness to Edit

février 26, 2019 by Frances Peck | 13 commentaires sur Freedom to Read, Willingness to Edit

Good stories, for me, have never been treacly. My father, an RCMP officer, put people in jail; my mother, a halfway house director, put them back into society. My childhood was one of sensational publications and limited adult supervision. By age 11 I’d read Jaws, Helter Skelter and The Eden Express, a memoir of schizophrenia. […]

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