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Letitia Henville

How (And Why) I Developed a Digital Tool for My Freelance Clients — And Then Gave It Away for Free

Tuesday September 13, 2022

This past June, I launched a new digital tool for academic writers — my preferred clients — at writingwellishard.com. This tool enables academics to compare features of their own writing with the features of a writing sample of their choice. For instance, users could see whether they write sentences that are, on average, longer or […]

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Back-to-School Season: Of Food, Cocktails and Conversation

Thursday September 8, 2022

Now that it’s September, many editors may be daydreaming of going back to school — especially as some in-class learning resumes. Here’s a smattering of online and in-person professional development opportunities available this fall: Niche editing Last April Judy Phillips wrote about what recipe editors do. The fall harvest season may inspire you to take […]

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Reflections on Mentorship

Tuesday August 16, 2022

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. — Lao Tzu The mentor role is ancient and storied. Mentor, in Homer’s Odyssey, is the friend of Odysseus who tutors Telemachus, Odysseus’s son. Athena, disguised as Mentor, steers young Telemachus’s search for his father. Those ancient Greeks did spin good yarns. Here I explore the […]

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Suzanne Bowness

Long Live Long-time Freelancing

Tuesday July 5, 2022

My name is Sue, and I’m a long-time, full-time freelancer. While most of the time I’m in the trees of my business, once in a while I zoom out to the forest and think about how different my way of working has been from that of other people. For 20 years, I’ve been the only […]

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Tanya Mykhaylychenko

Practical Ways to Help Ukraine from Canada

Tuesday June 7, 2022

Tanya Mykhaylychenko, a regular contributor to The Editors’ Weekly, grew up in Ukraine and witnessed the first weeks of the war in February and March. In this post, she shares her experience and recommends resources that can help people learn more about Ukrainian culture, the latest news and ways to donate. Many of you may […]

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Michelle Waitzman

Three Ways Long-term Clients Make Freelancing Less Stressful

Monday April 25, 2022

A lot of creative professionals become freelancers because it gives them the freedom to work on projects they enjoy, make their own schedule and pursue personal goals. But life as a freelancer is stressful for some. Income and schedules can be unpredictable, and finding clients requires constant effort. These stresses can lead to anxiety and […]

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Using Volunteer Work to Make Yourself More Marketable

Tuesday March 22, 2022

I didn’t volunteer with my editing association to get things out of it for myself. But over the years, I noticed that I was getting a lot out of it beyond feeling good about giving back to my community. This post summarizes what I learned so that you can use it to shape your own […]

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Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with Naomi Racz

Tuesday February 22, 2022

This is the final post in a series of interviews that the Editors Canada student relations committee completed last year with Editors Canada award winners. This month, S. Robin Larin shares the committee’s interview with Naomi Racz (Cumberland, B.C.), who was the winner of the 2020 Claudette Upton Scholarship. (This interview has been lightly edited.) […]

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What is Plain Language? Part 5: The Nitty-gritty

Tuesday February 15, 2022

This is the fifth and last in a series of articles discussing the basic principles of plain language by Aaron Dalton. I offer two half-day workshops: the first is all about the why and then we look at some document-level issues like tone. This is the workshop that I am most passionate about and try to get […]

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January Is Mentoring Month: How Are We Doing?

Tuesday January 25, 2022

In a nod to mentoring month, a movement formally recognized in the U.S. and gaining traction in Canada, let’s reflect on mentoring in the editing industry. Much has been written about mentoring in The Editors’ Weekly over the years, including the most recent post by Jennifer D. Foster on the benefits of mentorship, stories of […]

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