What subjects WON’T you edit? How do you know a job might contain that? Can you turn down work? This, plus strategies for coping when you can’t say no, or it gets to be too much.
Year: 2024
The Dangers of Copyediting
At a desk job like copyediting, what could possibly be dangerous besides the health effects of sitting all day? Well, not nothing!
Learn to Edit Less Using the “Mittens Method”
The goal is to offer minimal interventions to bring a piece of writing to the next stage. But how can you learn to edit with a lighter hand?
When There’s No Time to Read It All before Editing
The Typographic Oath was suggested by senior editor Erin Brenner as a guiding principle of editing ethics.* Her second point