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Month: June 2014

How to have your vacation and clients too

How to have your vacation and clients too

It’s vacation season. How do you manage clients’ expectations that you’ll be available whenever they want you? Six ideas today in

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Links OTW, June 21–27

Links OTW, June 21–27

Amazing stuff from the interwebs this week. A little lighter than it has been. I blame “summer vacation.” So long

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Checklist for Editing Captions

Checklist for Editing Captions

Captions are a weak link in the quality assurance chain, being something most people skim or skip while reviewing a

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“You keep using that word…”: The Princess Bride and Effective Word Choice

“You keep using that word…”: The Princess Bride and Effective Word Choice

Guest post by Rachel Stuckey Vizzini didn’t have much of an imagination. He couldn’t conceive of the implausible, possible, or

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How to Insert Symbols in Word

How to Insert Symbols in Word

Word probably converts your (C) to a © automatically, but what about the other symbols? Learn how to access them

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LOTW — 14–20 June

LOTW — 14–20 June

The online gems that I don’t want to forget from this week.

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State Your Rate with Confidence (podcast)

State Your Rate with Confidence (podcast)

To state your fee with confidence, you need to practice, pose, and use project fees. The scientific evidence behind this

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Where Is the Next Trend in Publishing?

Where Is the Next Trend in Publishing?

Last week I shared advice about unplanning your career, gleaned from David Hayes at the EAC conference in Toronto. The

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Simple punctuation test for “effective” writing!

Simple punctuation test for “effective” writing!

Updated May 2020, because internet. There are some punctuation marks that can make prose look absurd — especially with overuse.

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Common snag with Adobe Reader for proofreading

Common snag with Adobe Reader for proofreading

By far the number one problem my students have with Adobe Reader is not realizing that a “light” version of

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