Étiquette : editors at work

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Merel Elsinga

­­WFB: Working from Boat­­

novembre 3, 2022 by Merel Elsinga | 4 commentaires sur ­­WFB: Working from Boat­­

I am not only an editor, but also a sailing aficionado. To support my passion, my husband and I cruise through the BC waters on our sailboat Andiamo! for weeks at a time—more weeks than a person would have holidays. My aim is to make the transition from home office to boat office seamless. The […]

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Frances Peck

On Editing an Editor: Leslie Vermeer and Frances Peck in Conversation

mars 8, 2022 by Frances Peck | 6 commentaires sur On Editing an Editor: Leslie Vermeer and Frances Peck in Conversation

Editing a first-time novelist calls for a blend of sharp-eyed clarity, cheerleading and hand-holding. What if the novelist is also an editor? As part of a series of blog posts featuring conversations between author-editors and their editors, The Editors’ Weekly asked two editors to reflect on their experience of working together. Frances Peck is a […]

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Rosemary Shipton

Editing in the Time of Covid

janvier 11, 2022 by Rosemary Shipton | 8 commentaires sur Editing in the Time of Covid

As we enter 2022, it’s time to ask how editors have fared during the pandemic and what lies ahead. When the world as we knew it suddenly shut down in March 2020, we feared for our health and our livelihoods, uncertain what might transpire. How have we done? For most editors, it seems, work continued […]

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Merel Elsinga

Editing Medical-Legal Reports: An Interview with Jahleen Turnbull-Sousa

octobre 19, 2021 by Merel Elsinga

Jahleen Turnbull-Sousa is a freelance writer and editor who specializes in editing medical-legal assessment reports. These reports comprise opinions of medical experts that are used in a legal claim context. At the Editors Canada conference on June 13, 2021, Jahleen presented “Editing Medical-Legal Reports: A Big Little Niche.” Recently, editor Merel Elsinga interviewed Jahleen to […]

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Maggie Clark

A Day in the Life of a Content Marketing Specialist: Maggie Clark

août 3, 2021 by Maggie Clark

Writing and editing career paths can take many directions. In this “day-in-the-life” series, experienced professionals share their personal experiences in various roles related to writing, editing and communications. If you’re interested in writing a post for this series, please email The Editors’ Weekly. What is your job? I’m part of Kryton International Inc.’s marketing department, […]

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Tanya Mykhaylychenko

Some Notes on Networking on LinkedIn for Editors

juin 8, 2021 by Tanya Mykhaylychenko

I recently read a thread where several editors expressed, understandably, their reluctance to use LinkedIn to network. The term “networking” is used broadly and is not always clear in terms of expected actions and etiquette. You may even be distracted by some notifications on LinkedIn that do not apply to your situation (you can always […]

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Marianne Grier

A Day in the Life of a Communications Manager: Marianne Grier

juin 1, 2021 by Marianne Grier

Writing and editing career paths can take many directions. In this new “day-in-the-life” series, experienced professionals share their personal experiences and various roles related to writing, editing and communications. If you’re interested in writing a post for this series, please email The Editors’ Weekly. What is your job? I’m an operations manager for communication and […]

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James Harbeck

Don’t Look Busy

mars 23, 2021 by James Harbeck | Un commentaire sur Don’t Look Busy

It’s a good thing I’m not working in-house anymore. I’ve been far too busy lately to look busy. Those of you who have worked in corporate environments know what I’m talking about: You can spend an awful lot of time and effort looking busy instead of getting things done. There are a few reasons for […]

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Marianne Grier

The Times They Are A-Changin’

octobre 13, 2020 by Marianne Grier | 2 commentaires sur The Times They Are A-Changin’

My parents recently sold our family home. Perched on a hill in a small Nova Scotia town, the house was the backdrop to my childhood and school years. While I hadn’t lived there for ages, it was the place I always went back to. I could navigate my way in the dark, identify family members’ […]

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Jessica Coles

Alone at the Intersection of Editing and Engineering

août 11, 2019 by Jessica Coles | 6 commentaires sur Alone at the Intersection of Editing and Engineering

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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Frances Peck

A Little Strategy, a Lot of Satisfaction

mai 22, 2018 by Frances Peck | 8 commentaires sur A Little Strategy, a Lot of Satisfaction

Now that I am officially middle-aged, I can say that the most pressing urge is not the need to buy a convertible or meditate under the moon or urinate (thankfully). It is the desire to Pass Along Advice. Here is the top tip I wish I’d stumbled across when I was a novice editor/writer: Income […]

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Ellie Barton

Book Review | What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing

octobre 17, 2017 by Ellie Barton | 4 commentaires sur Book Review | What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing

What’s not to like about What Editors Do? This collection of essays traces the role of book editors from acquisition to publication and samples niches like editing genre fiction and working with self-publishing authors. What’s more, the 27 contributors represent a “who’s who” of American publishing: Betsy Lerner, Carol Fisher Saller, Jonathan Karp, Scott Norton, […]

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Anne Louise Mahoney

Listening With the Heart: Editing Indigenous Manuscripts

septembre 12, 2017 by Anne Louise Mahoney | 6 commentaires sur Listening With the Heart: Editing Indigenous Manuscripts

A Quill and Quire article popped up in my Twitter feed in late June: “Humber becomes new home for Indigenous Editors Circle.” I was thrilled that the Circle had found a home at Humber College’s Lakeshore campus in Toronto’s west end. Even better: a workshop on editing Indigenous manuscripts was being held in mid-August. I […]

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Paul Buckingham

Non-fiction Developmental Editing

août 15, 2017 by Paul Buckingham | 10 commentaires sur Non-fiction Developmental Editing

I’ve always loved trying to understand things — investigating ideas and concepts to make sense of them, seeking clearer ways to view them. I was delighted, therefore, when I discovered that there’s a kind of editing rooted in exactly that pursuit: developmental editing. The name describes it well: you’re helping the author develop a manuscript […]

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Rosemary Shipton

Editing Is Lifelong Learning

juin 20, 2017 by Rosemary Shipton | 6 commentaires sur Editing Is Lifelong Learning

Editors enjoy their careers for various reasons — the opportunity to work in the exciting literary world or the more lucrative realms of government or business, or to specialize in particular areas of expertise. For me the major attraction is the simple fact that every project is different — I learn new things every day. […]

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Frances Peck

Editing and Empathy

juin 6, 2017 by Frances Peck | 7 commentaires sur Editing and Empathy

I’m thinking more about empathy these days. So are other editors — witness last week’s post on the editor-author relationship. So are Canadians in general, judging by Google searches over the past decade.                     Source: Google Trends. Y-axis shows interest over time, defined as follows: “Numbers […]

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Virginia Durksen

Inner Editor: Tasks Without Edges

février 28, 2017 by Virginia Durksen | 5 commentaires sur Inner Editor: Tasks Without Edges

As the oft-paraphrased Leonardo da Vinci would have it, art [or poetry or writing or editing] is never finished, only abandoned. Writing is like a teenager. Eventually you have to send it out into the world to fend for itself. (Or should I say it’s like a young adult? Most North Americans freak out at […]

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Anita Jenkins

Quick and Dirty

février 7, 2017 by Anita Jenkins | 20 commentaires sur Quick and Dirty

When I was following the editors’ chat group, I often found myself silently screaming, “Who cares?” Or perhaps not so silently. The conversation frequently dealt with moving the words around in a sentence to make it “perfect” or correcting a fine point of grammar or checking what Chicago says about the em dash. Most of […]

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Rosemary Shipton

Those Unpublishable Manuscripts

octobre 11, 2016 by Rosemary Shipton | 25 commentaires sur Those Unpublishable Manuscripts

We’ve all had them – those manuscripts that arrive on our desks that should not be published. They have little merit in either content or expression, and our initial impulse is to return them immediately. How do we deal with them? If the project comes from a trade publisher, the contract with the author was probably […]

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Sue Archer

Oh, My Aching Eyeballs!

août 16, 2016 by Sue Archer | 18 commentaires sur Oh, My Aching Eyeballs!

Lately, I find myself wishing I’d picked a profession where I didn’t need to look at computer screens. Or read a lot. Or use my eyes at all, really. (Being a taste tester at a chocolate factory sounds like an attractive career change right about now.) My distance vision has always been terrible, but now […]

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Susan Glickman

Time to Put the “Free” Back in “Freelance”

juillet 26, 2016 by Susan Glickman | 7 commentaires sur Time to Put the “Free” Back in “Freelance”

I make my living as a freelancer, which means I work pretty much every single day, all year long. My only breaks are brief visits to out-of-town family. Real holidays are rare — perhaps once every five years. Sound familiar? I suspect many of you are like me. We never know when the next job […]

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Melva McLean

Movie Review: Genius

juillet 12, 2016 by Melva McLean | 4 commentaires sur Movie Review: Genius

Genius is a movie about the relationship between writer Thomas Wolfe and editor Maxwell Perkins and is based primarily on A. Scott Berg’s biography, “Max Perkins: Editor of Genius” (Riverhead Trade). Perkins worked for Charles Scribner’s Sons for over 30 years. Like Canada’s Ellen Seligman, Perkins was an exacting editor. Like Seligman, his meticulous attention […]

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Paul Cipywnyk

Zoom, Zoom: Rev Up Your Editing

juin 21, 2016 by Paul Cipywnyk | 5 commentaires sur Zoom, Zoom: Rev Up Your Editing

How quickly can you edit and still do a good job? In another life I was an editor for a financial and business news service, and I was amazed at how quickly reporters and editors could churn out thousands of words, yet maintain high standards. I believe you can learn to write and edit rapidly; […]

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Sue Archer

Should You Only « Edit What You Know »?

mars 8, 2016 by Sue Archer | 3 commentaires sur Should You Only « Edit What You Know »?

Writers are often told to “write what they know.” But what about editors? Should we only take on projects that are squarely in our comfort zones? When I asked this question online, I found that many of my editing colleagues endorse the idea of editing in new areas. It’s a fantastic way to develop your […]

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