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Editing Is Lifelong Learning

Tuesday June 20, 2017

Editors enjoy their careers for various reasons — the opportunity to work in the exciting literary world or the more lucrative realms of government or business, or to specialize in particular areas of expertise. For me the major attraction is the simple fact that every project is different — I learn new things every day. […]

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Anita Jenkins

Editors Canada’s Karen Virag Award

Tuesday July 4, 2017

Editors Canada established the Karen Virag Award in 2016 to honour the memory of a remarkable Edmonton editor. This award recognizes individuals or groups who do an exceptional job of raising the profile of editors and the editing profession. These skills and initiatives are somewhat exceptional among the editing ranks, since an editor’s usual role […]

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James Harbeck

Currying Favour With Your Readers

Tuesday August 8, 2017

Editing and writing have a lot in common with cooking. For one thing, people come to a text, as to a restaurant, with certain expectations and ideals, and you should satisfy them. You don’t have to give them something completely predictable — especially if you’re in a line more artistic than industrial — but you do want […]

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Marianne Grier

Swapping Snacks From the Editor’s Lunch Box

Tuesday August 29, 2017

I’ve always found new beginnings deliciously appealing. Whether it’s starting a fresh crossword puzzle, trying a new recipe or signing up for a class, I love the excitement of a new endeavour and wonder what I might learn along the way. As a school student, I wasn’t always keen to get back to class at […]

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Wilf Popoff

Wasted Words: Verbal Abuse

Tuesday September 19, 2017

There are many writers and, apparently, more than a few editors who think that to be and some of its conjugations are not actual verbs. I regularly encounter headings like this: Blabworth is Picked to be Next Publisher. This grammatical confusion is exposed in titles using the conventional upper and lowercase system that calls for […]

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Sara Goodchild

A Puzzling Process

Tuesday October 10, 2017

Like editing, solving puzzles is often a solitary endeavour. But not always! On the second Tuesday of every month, people get together in pubs across North America, Europe and beyond to solve puzzles at an event called Puzzled Pint. When I started going a few years ago, I never guessed that these entertaining nights out […]

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Marianne Grier

Comfort Zones

Tuesday November 14, 2017

This past August, the much-anticipated arrival of my Chicago Manual of Style v. 17 was overshadowed by the arrival of my first child. My due-in-September baby decided she was more Leo than Virgo, and made her appearance in the world a month early. Her little body wasn’t quite prepared for the outside world, and we […]

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Virginia Durksen

Revisiting the Inner Editor: December Is the Cruellest Month

Tuesday November 28, 2017

Last year, we published this post on the freelancer’s holiday blues. This year, we’re following up with our readers. Have you implemented any of these ideas? Do you have other tips for avoiding the holiday lull? When projects disappear in other months, the freelance editor adjusts her schedule and cash flow projections and stoically reminds […]

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PES in the Field: Raising (the Topic of) Our Standards

Tuesday February 27, 2018

“I’m talking about making something less boring.” This was feedback from an Editors Canada member on a draft of the latest update to Editors Canada’s Professional Editorial Standards (PES). The 2016 update was a year-long process that incorporated feedback and comments from many members. When a draft of the new text was circulated for final […]

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Brendan O’Brien

The Perils of Blabbing

Tuesday April 3, 2018

As a freelance editor, I’m lucky to work on some interesting books and journal material as well as dull and tedious stuff. I sometimes come across something that I would like to share, but resist the temptation, as publishers and authors naturally don’t like the contents of books, etc. to be disclosed before publication. I […]

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