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Cold Call Case Files

Tuesday May 13, 2014

Cold calling. I’ve heard arguments against it — it doesn’t generate work, it’s better to network in person, only word-of-mouth referrals reliably lead to jobs. But I haven’t yet discovered a downside. I can pick and choose all the companies I’d like to work for and start calling them. A phone call only takes a […]

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Lori Burwash

Lessons Learned From Eminem, David Ogilvy and a Sex Hotline

Tuesday April 29, 2014

It all started respectably enough. Publishing courses at Ryerson, EAC workshops and conferences, the Banff Book Editing Workshop. I’ve had rock-solid editorial training. So what have a rap artist, an ad man and a sex hotline taught me about writing and editing? Some pretty useful things, it turns out. Eminem: Write and edit like a […]

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Dominique Fortier

Dis donc, on la met où, la majuscule? Les majuscules aux titres d’écrits

Tuesday April 22, 2014

C’est toujours embêtant, les titres d’écrits (œuvres littéraires [romans, nouvelles, chansons, poésie], manuels, etc.). Les règles sont complexes et arbitraires. Dans un souci de simplicité et d’uniformité, tant le gouvernement du Québec (Office québécois de la langue française) que celui du Canada (Bureau de la traduction) ont établi la convention qui consiste à ne mettre […]

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Susan Glickman

What Does It Take to Start Freelancing?

Tuesday April 8, 2014

If you’re just starting out as a freelancer, whether you’re a writer or an editor, keep in mind that the only way to survive is to be brutally efficient — which means you will have no social life. You should, however, get a gym membership and use it, because you’ll need to keep your energy […]

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Adrienne Montgomerie

This Book Contains Canadian Spelling

Tuesday February 11, 2014

Every publisher who has hoped for a large U.S. audience has asked me to edit to U.S. spelling standards. You know, drop the dipthongs (oe and ae), omit the u from ou pairs, use z instead of s, allow only one consonant before adding an ending… They seem to think Americans won’t buy a book […]

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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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Melva McLean

The Envelope, Please

Thursday January 16, 2014

I was at a film event the other night, and someone asked, “So what do you do for a living?” I, of course, answered, “I’m an editor.” They asked, “What movies have you worked on?” It happens all the time. But the other night, for the first time, someone asked me if I saw any […]

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A published typo might seem like the end of the world to an editor, but being a perfectionist isn’t the answer either.

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Virginia Durksen

Myth: Perfection is the Goal

Wednesday October 16, 2013

We’ve all had that moment of pride when the book or the brochure arrives, still smelling of ink. And the next moment, when we open the book to discover the glaring error that has somehow managed to survive our eagle-eyed hunt, to live forever as testament to our failure. That moment is sent by the […]

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Virginia Durksen

Myth: Consistency matters consistently

Tuesday September 10, 2013

And so begins a mini-series, a sub-set of The Inner Editor by Virginia Durksen. Each “mythbuster” explores an assumption commonly made about editors or editing and offers a new perspective on that assumption. Consistency matters when you’re adding a column of numbers. Consistency also matters when you’re training your dog (or your kids, for that […]

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A business man sits at a desk, among other business men, talking into a mic with a sheet of paper in front of him.

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Wilf Popoff

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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