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What’s in a Name?

October 18, 2016 | Filed under: Melva McLean

Last month’s book club choice was from a bunch of bestseller and book club lists. It was one of those “family” stories with a sizeable cast of characters. You know the kind — three or four sisters with partners and/or lovers and children and a couple of pets. I was …

Those Unpublishable Manuscripts

October 11, 2016 | Filed under: Rosemary Shipton

We’ve all had them – those manuscripts that arrive on our desks that should not be published. They have little merit in either content or expression, and our initial impulse is to return them immediately. How do we deal with them? If the project comes from a trade publisher, the contract …

Ours Is Not to Reason Why — Or Is It?

October 4, 2016 | Filed under: Paul Buckingham

You’re editing a biography of Lester Pearson, and you see a line that says, “It is a fitting coincidence that Pearson was born the same year another great Liberal leader, Wilfrid Laurier, took the Canadian helm.” You’re drawn to the interesting coincidence of dates and decide to look up the …

Editing Niches: Back to School With Thesis Editing

September 20, 2016 | Filed under: Cathy McPhalen

Editors may spurn thesis (or dissertation) work for graduate students, but that shuts off fascinating pathways. Students become academics who need editors for journal articles, monographs, textbooks and grant applications. Those who become non-academics need business reports, web pages, novels and [insert the types of documents you edit here ] edited. …

Writing Wrongs in Fiction

September 6, 2016 | Filed under: Melva McLean

Last month, Paul Cipywnyk wrote here about plausibility and continuity in novels. But what about in screenwriting? Realistic, plausible details and continuity are equally — sometimes more — important on screen, but it can be challenging to ensure them. Now, it doesn’t matter what you’re writing about or in what …

Know Your Subject, Watch That Continuity

August 9, 2016 | Filed under: Paul Cipywnyk

Blam! Blam! Black Sombrero fired his Colt .45 at the shadow in the barn, then spun and snapped three shots at the posse approaching across the coral. Zing! A shot from behind creased his shoulder, and he wheeled back, fanning four quick shots at the figure in the gaping doorway. …

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Should Editors Be Able to Write?

April 28, 2015 | Filed under: Rosemary Shipton

We editors talk at length about different kinds of editing and who does what, and we generally assume that we’re working on a text written by someone else. Together with the author, we massage the content, the structure and the presentation into the best possible shape for its intended readers. …

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Editors and Their Clients

January 13, 2015 | Filed under: Rosemary Shipton

Editors are shaped by their clients. Sure, we all share common knowledge, skills and talents, but we’re influenced by what our employers want from us. Over a period of years, that accumulated experience makes us the editors we are today. In recent posts to this site, Lori Burwash has described …

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What’s an Editor to Do?

January 6, 2015 | Filed under: Victoria Neufeldt

The vagaries of language can cause even the most experienced editors headaches. Editors as a group are more attuned to the whims and ways of language than the average speaker, but many strange and challenging usages regularly fly under the radar and pass into public text, despite our best efforts. …

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Four Guidelines for Editing Your Way Through the Corporate Jungle

November 25, 2014 | Filed under: Sue Archer

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it means to be an editor. Unlike many of my editing colleagues who work in publishing, I ply my trade within a corporation. Although my official title is not “editor,” editing is a large part of what I do. I’ve worked for …

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