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Jake Poinier: An Editor’s Top 3

Tuesday July 28, 2020

In this series, experienced editors reflect on their Top 3 tools, rules and suggestions for clients and colleagues. Jake Poinier is a freelance editor in Phoenix, Ariz., with 31 years’ experience in the publishing industry. He specializes in business copywriting, ghostwriting and non-fiction book editing, and blogs about freelancing business topics at DoctorFreelance.com. Jake is […]

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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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Amy J. Schneider: An Editor’s Top 3

Tuesday May 24, 2022

In this series, experienced editors reflect on their Top 3 tools, rules and suggestions for clients and colleagues. Amy J. Schneider has been a full-time freelance copyeditor and proofreader of fiction and non-fiction and the owner of Featherschneider Editorial Services since 1995. Since 2012 Amy has written articles and presented in-person and online sessions on […]

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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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Freelance Tips from an Editor with ADHD, Part 2

Thursday February 9, 2023

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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Jamie Banks: What’s On My Desk?

Thursday March 26, 2026

Welcome back to our series where we snoop through the workspaces of our fellow editors. This week, Jamie Banks tours her workspace with us. The essentials My setup is simple but intentional. At the moment, that means a notebook computer and a handful of small objects within reach, like pens and sticky notes. System notifications […]

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Describing “The Horrors”

Thursday June 11, 2026

Even though it’s not spooky season yet, many editors may find themselves with a horror manuscript in their hands. If you are editing or writing a story with a monster, describing the monster can be a bit of a problem sometimes. How do you describe the indescribable? Let’s explore how to portray a monster as […]

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Know Your Legal Limits

Tuesday February 26, 2013

Let’s begin by sketching a fictional but plausible scenario. Dan Ascot is a librarian who works at the University of Western Nebraska. One day, in 2009, he posts a few remarks about a publisher on his blog. He says that Knightsbridge Press, a publisher of scholarly books in Massachusetts, produces “over-priced works of dubious scholarship.” […]

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THE INNER EDITOR: The Useful Conversation

Wednesday July 24, 2013

The desciptive-prescriptive war is over. Long live the conversation. In the past month, my colleagues have been chatting about an article called Descriptivism vs Prescriptivism: War is Over (if you want it). Its heading perpetuates a flawed premise, but the author offers good evidence that prescriptive and descriptive can both be thoughtful approaches to the […]

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