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.
adventures in editing
I’ve been editing for 27 years now, so Editors Canada asked me their 5 Ws. Here are my alt answers.
You’ve got style, but how do you get all the content creators to follow the guide!?
Bigger than a style sheet, and specific to your business or organization, a house style is what you need!
With $3.39 billion in US sales in 2023 and worldwide revenue at $15.1 billion (growing well over the rate of inflation—at 16%) the board game market is that one editors are silly to ignore.
Sometimes the words just don’t fit. Here are some easier ways to cut words after layout.
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.
At a desk job like copyediting, what could possibly be dangerous besides the health effects of sitting all day? Well, not nothing!
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?
The Typographic Oath was suggested by senior editor Erin Brenner as a guiding principle of editing ethics.* Her second point was originally, “Read the entire
Can’t find your tools in the new Acrobat 2023 layout? Whether you’re ready to adapt or just need the old look back, help is here!