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Easter Hiatus

April 6, 2023 by Beau Brock | Leave a Comment

Happy Thursday, everyone! We are taking a short break for the long Easter weekend. We will be back next week with a new post, so stay tuned! We hope that those of you out east who experienced the ice storm on Wednesday are safe and sound. ___ The Editors’ Weekly is the official blog of […]

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Tanya Mykhaylychenko

Social Media Content Management for Self-Employed Editors and Writers

March 30, 2023 by Tanya Mykhaylychenko | Leave a Comment

For self-employed editors and writers, knowing how to manage your social media content is a key ingredient for growing and maintaining your clientele. The following are some factors that need to be taken into consideration, regardless of the platform. 1. Know your audience(s) This one is obvious. Questions start coming up when you have several […]

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Kate Merriman

Combining Careers, Part Two: Rewards — Financial and Other

March 23, 2023 by Kate Merriman | Leave a Comment

In the first part of this series, I described the circumstances that led me to vocational discernment. The parish in which I was serving could not afford a full-time priest. Was there another career that I could combine with Anglican ministry? Vocational discernment revealed the intriguing possibilities offered by editing. With a mixture of trepidation […]

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Suzanne Methot

Editing Indigenous Writing: A Nuanced Partnership

March 16, 2023 by Suzanne Methot | 11 Comments on Editing Indigenous Writing: A Nuanced Partnership

A lot of Indigenous writing is under-edited, because many non-Indigenous editors don’t feel like they have a way in to the text and are scared of making a mistake. Other times, it can be over-edited, because the editor has shoehorned the story into a format that reflects European values and beliefs. Some Indigenous writers are […]

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Audrey Jamieson

Encouraging Coworkers to See the Benefits of Editing

March 9, 2023 by Audrey Jamieson | 10 Comments on Encouraging Coworkers to See the Benefits of Editing

Working as an in-house editor often means you will be editing the work of untrained writers. You may come across colleagues who don’t want to be writing in the first place, so how do you convince them that your editing services are valuable? Sometimes you can’t. Sometimes people reject edits and say, “Scrap the whole […]

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Suzanne Bowness

Meeting “In Real Life”: Conference 2023

March 2, 2023 by Suzanne Bowness | 1 Comment on Meeting “In Real Life”: Conference 2023

Raise your hand if you’ve missed meeting in real life (or IRL, as the social media specialists say it). Me too. That’s why we decided to dip our toes into the world of in-person conferences after two years of virtual success, planning a two-day event to be held June 17–18, 2023, at Toronto Metropolitan University […]

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Beau Brock

The Editors’ Weekly en français

February 23, 2023 by Beau Brock | Leave a Comment

Salut, réviseurs! Did you know that The Editors’ Weekly welcomes both English and French content? Stay tuned in the coming weeks for a new Editors’ Weekly post en français. In the meantime, we invite you to revisit some of the previous French content shared on the blog. ___ The Editors’ Weekly is the official blog […]

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Laura Bontje

Editing for Authors on a Budget

February 16, 2023 by Laura Bontje | 6 Comments on Editing for Authors on a Budget

As a freelance fiction editor, I find it incredibly rewarding to help an author shape their story or find their voice. And as an author, I know firsthand how transformative the insights of a strong editor can be. But professional editing can be expensive, so what do you do when an author has a limited […]

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Jahleen Turnbull-Sousa

Freelance Tips from an Editor with ADHD, Part 2

February 9, 2023 by Jahleen Turnbull-Sousa | Leave a Comment

In Part 1 of this series, I discussed how getting to know yourself well, setting up your environment for success and exploring scaffolding strategies are keys to freelance business success for editors with ADHD or other forms of executive dysfunction. In this article, I will share my next two tips: Embrace routines and self-care On […]

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Letter from the Editor: A Brief Hiatus

February 2, 2023 by Beau Brock | Leave a Comment

Hello, dear readers of the Editors’ Weekly blog. We are taking a short break this week and will be back next Thursday, February 9. Over the coming weeks and months, we will be seeing some follow-up posts for a few of the ongoing series that started in the last quarter of 2022, as well as […]

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