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.
Tag: strategy
How to Edit Topics You’re Clueless About
You’d never find an editor for that piece on liquid metal cooled fast nuclear reactors if you needed them to be an expert in the
How to Wrestle Out of a Deadline Death Pile
Are you forever the rescue editor? How did you work your way to more reasonable deadlines? I’ve been working to get myself out of the “lifesaving
Weird Your Way to Success
Lessons from the Design Thinkers conference in Toronto, Canada: “confessions” was the official theme, but the theme that emerged for me was how being your weird
Ways to Lower the Reading Level
by Rita Vanden Heuvel for dameditors. Reposted here with permission and covered under this site’s © license Writers of safety communications know that it’s crucial
How to Hand Out Business Cards
Today in my How To column at Copyediting.com. My business cards are the ones on top in the photo. The right angels and polo bear
How to Use Rush Fees
When, how, and why to set rush fees: because you are the lifesaver. Today, in my How To column at Copyediting.com. Spoiler: from 25–200% of your usual
How to Survive a Heavy Editing Job
Those editing jobs that make doing your taxes look good? I have a host of tips for eating that frog, today in my How To column at
How Procrastination Can Improve Efficiency
Use procrastination to increase productivity. I tell you how in my How To column at Copyediting.com.
Strategies for Leaving No Check Behind
Strategies to note and track copyediting tasks — today, in my How To column at Copyediting.com. Related to in this piece: