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An Editor in a Three-Day Writer’s Boot Camp, Day 1

Tuesday July 15, 2014

Novelist’s Boot Camp Travel Writing Boot Camp Dissertation Writing Boot Camp Resume Writing Boot Camp Children’s Picture Book Boot Camp Okay, STOP. Right there! Seriously? What could be less suited to boot camp than a kid’s picture book? What’s next? And when did the words “boot camp,” i.e., “a military training camp for new recruits, […]

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Summer Reading/Listening Series 2021: Part 2

Tuesday July 20, 2021

Some of the best book and podcast recommendations come from fellow editors. In a continuation of our summer series, we’ve asked two more members of our blog committee to share their latest picks. Sue Bowness Sue is the director of communications for Editors Canada, a freelance writer and editor at Codeword Communications and a part-time writing professor […]

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Anne Louise Mahoney

Learning to Love Style Sheets

Thursday November 9, 2023

As a copy editor, how do you feel about creating a style sheet for each project you work on? I’ve found myself in each of these camps at various times, depending on how busy my work schedule is, how complex the project is, how confident I’m feeling and what clients expect. With practice, though, I’ve […]

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Goodbyes and Hellos: Changes to Our Editorial Team

Thursday July 4, 2024

It’s been many years since I was in school, yet July still feels like a time of transition — a month where one grade has ended and a new one is on the horizon. So it seems fitting that we’re celebrating this year’s “graduating class” of Editors’ Weekly team members in July and welcoming our […]

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Suzanne Schaan

The SME and Me: Navigating an Edit with a Subject Matter Expert

Thursday May 7, 2026

The first publishing company I worked for had an in-house newsletter that included photos from sales meetings, recipes, updates on the company baseball team (the Weasels) and random pieces on diverse topics. One of my contributions was titled something like, “How to impress at cocktail parties.” (Unfortunately, I can’t find the original; I hope the […]

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Kristina Lundberg

Rising Above the Plateau: Mid-Career PD for Editors

Tuesday January 22, 2013

Every fall I struggle with the professional development plan I’m required to submit to my employer. My first decade in editing was brimming with formal and informal professional development, and my professional growth was steep. Fourteen years into my career, how can I rise above the PD plateau and continue to grow? Of course, in editing there’s […]

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Abby Egerter

Six Volunteers Receive Honorary CPE Status

Tuesday October 7, 2014

Back in the Wild West days of editing (about the late 1980s or so), there were no competency tests for editors and few if any educational programs designed to serve the needs of the publishing industry. Some members of the then Freelance Editors’ Association of Canada were looking for objective ways to demonstrate that editors […]

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Paul Buckingham

Ours Is Not to Reason Why — Or Is It?

Tuesday October 4, 2016

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 facts. You discover that Pearson […]

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Marianne Grier

Editing: An Essentialist Craft?

Tuesday April 30, 2019

The new “essentialism” is having a moment. While many of us have been trying to cram in more — to fill every unfilled moment so that we’re more productive — some are starting to scale things back. To amble through life more slowly, focus on what’s important, take time to breathe. The new year brought […]

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Jessica Coles

Alone at the Intersection of Editing and Engineering

Sunday August 11, 2019

This post is part of a new series of case studies by and for in-house editors. The focus of this series is on the personal experiences and various roles of in-house editors. A post will appear on the Editors’ Weekly every other month. If you’re interested in writing a post for this series, please email the Member Services Committee. […]

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