Unleash your inner editor at #Editors17 in Gatineau, Que this weekend. Stop by the Copyediting booth at the Editors Canada conference to take an #edpower selfie!
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Happy VD, Everyone
Be bold, stay weird, mend the broken, and add more love. My message to you in copyeditor’s marks.
How New Words Catch On
During the seasonal onslaught of retrospectives, Ben Zimmer predicted new words that 2015 will bring, and pondered why some never catch on. A great bit
Sidewalk-sized Spirograph
I made a sidewalk-sized spirograph. It’s pretty off-topic as far as this site goes, but so many people asked me for the template (via Haha
snafu maintenance — we’ll be right back
Yes, the latest site update snafu’d all the plug-ins and widgets. We’re working on it. Because, you know, it’s not like we’ve got paying deadlines
Blog Hop: A Peek Behind the Writer’s Curtain
When Rachel Stuckey invited me to take part in this sort of blogging chain-letter, I felt honoured to be counted among some of the most
Is this social media? No.
Is a conference call social media? Again: no. “Social media” needs a more narrow definition so that not just any device that allows us to
EAC2012 reviews in a hurry
Quick personal reflections from the 2012 conference of the Editors’ Association of Canada. (That means it’s not necessarily what they said, but what the speakers
Why the Book isn’t Ready
Why isn’t the manuscript ready? Because every book is more work than anyone intended. If authors and editors knew,
Create a Checklist of Your PDF Mark-up in 2 Clicks
In my previous post of this series, I showed you how to use the “text edits” tool to mark up changes in a PDF. Some