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“No” Your Way to Better Work
‘No’ is your passport to the next level. —That guy… Who was in that thing (an actual movie title) Resolve
A Surprising Way to Increase Your Pay
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but call editing “quality control” and you can double your
Emergency Absence Planning: Essential Prep for Freelancers
Whether you work alone in a home office or at a site filled with coworkers, chances are that few other
The Editors’ Guide to Confidentiality: Essential Security for Protecting Clients’ Words
Editing isn’t just about typo protection. Data security and content (intellectual property, or IP) privacy are core standards in editing
Resolution: Find Better Assignments
Can’t get clients to raise your pay? Tired of disastrous prose and rush-rush deadlines? Time to work on the client
Resolution: Raise Your Rates
“My advice to anyone starting out freelancing?” says editor Barb Adamski, “Double your rates at least once in your career.”
We’re freelance editors. Of course we…!
Getting on board with the “we’re X, of course we…” trend on social media, the Quad collabed on a series about editing and freelancing.
Editor for Life (Alt Answers)
I’ve been editing for 27 years now, so Editors Canada asked me their 5 Ws. Here are my alt answers.
Setting Boundaries for Editing Disturbing Content: Negotiating Terms & Self-Care
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.