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Brendan O’Brien

Is It All About the Author?

Tuesday August 21, 2018

The prevailing orthodoxy in online editors’ groups, I have noticed, is one of huge respect for, and empathy with, the author. The author is king/queen. We, as editors, primarily serve the author’s vision, the author’s voice. However, in my own work (both in-house and freelance, primarily as a copyeditor of non-fiction), the emphasis has generally […]

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Letitia Henville

When Two Neurodivergent Minds Meet (Part 2)

Thursday December 4, 2025

A Virtual Assistant and an Editor Share Their Process Last week, I described why I decided to hire a virtual assistant (VA) in June 2025, and shared Melanie’s responses to my questions. This week, Melanie interviews me. Melanie Lobo: Our first conversation was on Reddit — what made you reach out to me? Letitia Henville: […]

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This image of an attractive woman looking through a magnifying glass with one eye is a metaphor for close scrutiny, a metaphor for this week’s post on The Editors’ Weekly, titled “What’s an editor to do?”, which looks at copyediting and questions how many or few changes an editor should suggest when copy editing a […]

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WASTED WORDS: Stalking Verbosity

Tuesday July 30, 2013

Verbosity is the technical term for Wasted Words and it reflects the ongoing motif of this blog series. Verbosity noun the fact or quality of using more words than needed; wordiness. (Oxford Online Dictionary) Not much here to make a writer proud. I admit to being verbosity-obsessed: while writing I’m terrorized by the possibility I’ll […]

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Anna Williams Karen Virag

In Memoriam

Monday January 20, 2014

The Editors’ Weekly mourns the loss of a loved and valued contributor, Karen Virag, who passed away on Jan. 11 following a brief illness. From the EAC’s national office: A longtime member of EAC’s Prairie Provinces branch, Karen was the association’s director of publications. She co-chaired EAC’s successful 2008 national conference in Edmonton and the […]

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Dwain Richardson

English Editing in Quebec: Local Realities — Quebec City and Area, and Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean

Tuesday February 17, 2015

♪♫ À Québec au clair de lune. Comme il fait bon… ♪♫ On those first few words of Marius Delisle’s 1959 hit, I make my way to Quebec City and the surrounding area to find out how language professionals fare with English on a daily basis. Of the more than 700,000 inhabitants of the Quebec […]

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Tanya Procyshyn

Gift Ideas for Editors and Other Word Nerds

Tuesday December 8, 2015

December is officially upon us, and with that comes gift-giving season. Whether you’re looking for the perfect Secret Santa item for a fellow editor, a thoughtful gift for a bookwork friend or even a treat for yourself to celebrate the end of a year of hard work, the following items should put a smile on […]

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Quick and Dirty

Tuesday February 7, 2017

When I was following the editors’ chat group, I often found myself silently screaming, “Who cares?” Or perhaps not so silently. The conversation frequently dealt with moving the words around in a sentence to make it “perfect” or correcting a fine point of grammar or checking what Chicago says about the em dash. Most of […]

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Virginia Durksen

The Inner Editor: Please Allow Me To … Interrupt You

Tuesday February 6, 2018

On Facebook recently, a colleague reported being the victim of a phone hijacking. You might recognize the feeling. A potential client calls to ask about editing services and then spends the better part of an hour telling her story with barely a breath between sentences, leaving you with no room to speak. There it is. […]

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Dwain Richardson

English Editing in Quebec: Proofreading Bilingual Documents

Tuesday July 31, 2018

For most of us, it is easy to proof documents written in one language. Copy editors and proofreaders are familiar with flow, style and grammatical rules as they pertain to their mother tongues. But what happens when working with a bilingual or multilingual document? How do you ensure consistency, especially when the standards of one […]

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