Today I talk about squeezing more work from a delayed client without sounding whiny, in my How To column at Copyediting.com. Thanks
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Find a Mentor to Boost Your Career Beyond Mid- or Sr Editor
Models of mentoring that will help you learn and develop your editing career from new- or mid- or even senior-level. Today,
How to Quote on Your First Job
So you’ve got your first inquiry for a paid gig. Con.grats! Now what? Ahhhh! Flail around in a panic!!! (Step
A Colour Hack to Sharpen Your Editing Eyes
Changing the background colour of your document can trick your brain into seeing the words in a whole new way.
Music to Edit By
Music can help or hinder your editing, get genre and source recommendations in my extra post on Copyediting.com today. Plus,
How to Manage Too Much Work — Surviving Crazy-Busy
Practical strategies for surviving times of crazy-busy, as all feast-or-famine freelancers must, eventually.
Stop Wasting Time on Estimates
Are you spending hours developing accurate estimates specific to a project only to hear the client say “That’s ten times what I thought I’d have to spend”?
Stop it. Stop it now.
How to Handle a Crying Author
I say, “There is a reader for every writer.” And it’s true. That reader might be your mom, but
When Lives Depend on the Words
How to deal with the emotional and legal risks of working on words that could save, or cost, or
Ten Signs of “Lifted” Text
Ten telltales that will alert you to the need to “freshen up” some of the prose, or seek out the proper citation and permissions, or at least clean up the formatting.