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Month: March 2014

Awarding collegial generosity, picking your POV, tackling dialect, & how long it takes to make a living editing

Awarding collegial generosity, picking your POV, tackling dialect, & how long it takes to make a living editing

Some weeks have more than their share of great content. This week, I’ve got two links for writers and two for editors.   POV: omniscience

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Simperial weights — converting units of measure in Canada

Though I’d much rather announce “I weigh 70 kg,” metric hasn’t entirely stuck in Canada. We use a simperial system that I’ve been writing about lately. An

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Simperial podcast — Converting units for Canada

Simperial podcast — Converting units for Canada

The soft and hard of converting imperial measurements to metric for a Canadian audience are covered in this episode, an adaptation of posts on copyediting.com.

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How to publish your book, the options

Wondering how to get your book out there? There are a range of paths you can take, from traditional publishing on through to complete DIY. This

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Back cover blurbs

Caroline Kaiser has some thoughtful suggestions about how to write a back cover blurb. Go read her advice on her blog. It can take weeks,

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HTML for copy editors (and XML too)

HTML for copy editors (and XML too)

As digital products take over the publishing field, copy editors and other publishing pros will find that adding basic HTML and XML skills to their

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Grammar comedy, Scrivener, and other links this week

Grammar comedy, Scrivener, and other links this week

Grammar LOL Listen to the very funny Craig Fay’s take on the tedious grammatical choice of using former and later. “I’ll get it but it’s

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Be Bossy

Be Bossy

Bossy has been getting a bad rap these days, because it’s mostly used to put down girls for qualities and behaviours that might otherwise be

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What to do with an edited Word file

What to do with an edited Word file

So you got the manuscript back from the copy editor or proofreader. Now what? Well, it’s time to check the changes the editor made, answer

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Autocorrect with formatted text in Word, an alternative to macros

Pimp the autocorrect feature in Word to save keystrokes. It’s easier than a macro! Type the desired text in a Word document, and format it

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