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Sohini Ghose

Sohini Ghose: An Editor’s Top 3

October 3, 2024 by Sohini Ghose | 2 Comments on Sohini Ghose: An Editor’s Top 3

In this series, experienced editors reflect on their Top 3 tools, rules and suggestions for clients and colleagues. Sohini Ghose (she/her) is an editor with over fifteen years of international experience, having worked on an array of books with indie and major publishers, university presses, and debut and bestselling authors, including a Nobel Prize laureate. […]

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Alex Benarzi

Editing with Vision Loss: Accessibility Tips

September 19, 2024 by Alex Benarzi | 2 Comments on Editing with Vision Loss: Accessibility Tips

Editors with vision loss? It is not possible. After all, editing is a visual practice, isn’t it? How can you catch every typo and every errant comma in a manuscript when you struggle to see? Yes, I have heard these and similar comments. I am here this week to show you how I, a professional […]

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Alex Benarzi Holly Vestad

Free (or Cheap) Tools for Freelance Editors: Part 2

June 27, 2024 by Holly Vestad | 5 Comments on Free (or Cheap) Tools for Freelance Editors: Part 2

We are back this week with more free or cheap tools to help you effectively run your editing practice. In our previous post, we shared resources that help organize your thoughts, your time, your published work and your money. Here, we offer some affordable tools specifically for editors.  Word processors There’s no way around it: […]

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Alex Benarzi Holly Vestad

Free (or Cheap) Tools for Freelance Editors: Part 1

June 13, 2024 by Holly Vestad | Leave a Comment

Becoming a freelance editor can feel both exhilarating and dizzying. As a freelance editor, you’re editing texts, but you’re also running a business. You have complete freedom to set your own schedule and rates, but you are responsible for filling that schedule, finding your clients, and building your networks. Yes, you can work from anywhere […]

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Madeleine Vasaly

An Introduction to Proofreading Comics

May 16, 2024 by Madeleine Vasaly | 2 Comments on An Introduction to Proofreading Comics

If you proofread prose books or magazines, working on your first comic book or graphic novel can be intimidating. A lot of your skills are transferable and will serve you well across media types, but some editorial elements are handled differently. Reading comics from a range of genres and publishers will help you get familiar […]

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Suzanne Bowness

Suzanne Bowness: An Editor’s Top 3

May 2, 2024 by Suzanne Bowness | 1 Comment on Suzanne Bowness: An Editor’s Top 3

In this series, experienced editors reflect on their Top 3 tools, rules and suggestions for clients and colleagues. Suzanne Bowness is a writer, editor and communications consultant. She has written for publications from The Globe and Mail to University Affairs magazine. Since 2002, she has provided content creation, editing and consulting services to corporate clients through […]

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Katherine Morton

Katherine Morton: An Editor’s Top 3

March 28, 2024 by Katherine Morton | Leave a Comment

In this series, experienced editors reflect on their top 3 tools, rules and suggestions for clients and colleagues. Katherine Morton is an Editors Canada certified copy editor. She has been editing throughout her more than 20-year career and has been freelance editing for the past few years. With a Master of Business Administration and a […]

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Anne Louise Mahoney

Feeling Scattered or Overwhelmed? Some Tips for Staying Focused

February 8, 2024 by Anne Louise Mahoney | 2 Comments on Feeling Scattered or Overwhelmed? Some Tips for Staying Focused

After reading Nicola Aquino’s blog post “Editing in Times of Chaos and Loss,” I’ve been thinking about ways editors can stay focused and motivated when feeling overwhelmed. This could be in times of trial, but also when our energy or mood is low, when there are distractions outside of our control, when the content is […]

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E. Prybylski

Embracing Your Needs as a Neurodivergent Editor

January 18, 2024 by E. Prybylski | Leave a Comment

Being a late-diagnosed autistic person (who also has ADHD), I spent most of my life feeling like a fish out of water. Things others found simple and easy, I struggled with in ways I couldn’t articulate. Yet other things my peers found difficult, I accomplished with ease. Prior to the realization that I was autistic, […]

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Perrin Lindelauf

Draftsmith: An Editor’s Review

December 14, 2023 by Perrin Lindelauf | 4 Comments on Draftsmith: An Editor’s Review

Intelligent Editing’s PerfectIt has long been the consistency software standard for editors, so when the rapid AI advances of the last year began flipping industries on its head, I grew curious about how the company would keep pace.  Its response is Draftsmith, a new AI writing refiner that promises to bridge the gap between lacklustre […]

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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

September 13, 2022 by Letitia Henville | 1 Comment on How (And Why) I Developed a Digital Tool for My Freelance Clients — And Then Gave It Away for Free

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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Amy J. Schneider

Amy J. Schneider: An Editor’s Top 3

May 24, 2022 by Amy J. Schneider | 1 Comment on Amy J. Schneider: An Editor’s Top 3

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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Ruth E. Thaler-Carter

Ruth E. Thaler-Carter: An Editor’s Top 3

April 12, 2022 by Ruth E. Thaler-Carter | Leave a Comment

In this series, experienced editors reflect on their top 3 tools, rules and suggestions for clients and colleagues. Ruth E. Thaler-Carter has been managing and speaking about websites for several years, for both her own ventures and those of her clients. Her in-person and virtual presentations about editors’ websites have been popular with several professional […]

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Lucy Payette

What’s New in the Canadian Press Stylebook

November 2, 2021 by Lucy Payette | 1 Comment on What’s New in the Canadian Press Stylebook

Since its inception in 1940, The Canadian Press Stylebook has changed “cautiously,” as stated on its website, with a motto of “evolution, not revolution.” Nonetheless, if you’ve followed Canadian Press style, you know it isn’t enough to commit to memory the style standards and leave it at that. Language and usage changes — and style […]

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Aaron Dalton

Review: The Chicago Manual of Style for PerfectIt

September 14, 2021 by Aaron Dalton | 1 Comment on Review: The Chicago Manual of Style for PerfectIt

Disclaimer: I received a free year of access to The Chicago Manual of Style Online (CMOS Online) and PerfectIt 5 as part of testing the beta version and writing this review. Efficiency is key to maximizing your income. There are only so many hours in a day, so you simply must do more in those […]

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Lesley Cameron

Style Sheets: Your New Best Friend

December 15, 2020 by Lesley Cameron | 4 Comments on Style Sheets: Your New Best Friend

At an Editors’ Vine virtual meeting in November, Editors Canada member Lesley Cameron presented “Getting the Most from Style Sheets.” Here are some of the highlights from her talk. The primary function of a style sheet is to record all style decisions about a text to ensure consistency within a document. That, in turn, can […]

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Aaron Dalton

Wildcards and Regular Expressions

November 10, 2020 by Aaron Dalton | Leave a Comment

Recently, I’ve seen some problems involving global text edits that were easily solved with Microsoft Word’s Advanced Find and Replace feature. Spending some time learning the ins and outs of this feature will more than pay off when you’re able to do something in minutes that would take you hours to do manually. Find and […]

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Erin Brenner

Erin Brenner: An Editor’s Top 3

September 8, 2020 by Erin Brenner | 2 Comments on Erin Brenner: An Editor’s Top 3

In this series, experienced editors reflect on their Top 3 tools, rules and suggestions for clients and colleagues. Erin Brenner is an author and an award-winning copywriter who has been running her own business, Right Touch Editing, for more than a decade. Her company specializes in business publishing and indie books related to marketing and […]

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Nancy Flight

40 Years: An Editor’s Perspective

March 5, 2019 by Nancy Flight | 3 Comments on 40 Years: An Editor’s Perspective

Forty-six years ago, when I embarked on my editing career, my first assignment was to edit a 500-page novel, which the publisher plunked onto my desk along with a copy of The Chicago Manual of Style and a dictionary. “Here, edit this,” he said. That was my instruction in its entirety. There were no courses […]

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Tracey Anderson

A Measure of Editing Success

August 1, 2017 by Tracey Anderson | 2 Comments on A Measure of Editing Success

The term “metrics” has become a bit of a business buzzword, especially for digital enterprises. It’s a trendy word for ways to quantifiably measure success such as tracking social media metrics (followers, click-through rates) or sales metrics (monthly numbers). As editors, though, we don’t have the same kinds of reliable metrics to help us measure […]

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Marion Soubliere

Attending Conferences at Home and Abroad? Aye!

July 11, 2017 by Marion Soublière | 2 Comments on Attending Conferences at Home and Abroad? Aye!

For editors, industry conferences are like chicken soup for the soul. Editing can be a lonely profession, but combining learning with camaraderie is a spirit-boosting elixir. Many of us are still brimming with ideas and newfound confidence following June’s 2017 Editors Canada conference in Gatineau. Such learning and networking need not stop with membership in […]

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Tracey Anderson

Check Mates: Create a Checklist as an Editing Tool

May 2, 2017 by Tracey Anderson | 3 Comments on Check Mates: Create a Checklist as an Editing Tool

I admit it: I’m a (sometimes obsessive) list maker. I make them for all kinds of things: to-do lists, grocery lists, vacation packing lists; my list of lists goes on and on. It’s no surprise, then, that I often use an editing checklist. For me, a checklist is a useful tool for staying organized and […]

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Paul Cipywnyk

Basic Tools for Productive Editing

April 19, 2016 by Paul Cipywnyk | 1 Comment on Basic Tools for Productive Editing

Your computer set-up can determine whether you have a smooth editing experience or suffer headache after IT-related headache, so let’s look at some of the tools that help editors succeed. Hardware Buy a computer with lots of memory (RAM), a minimum of 8 GB and preferably 16 GB. Having lots of memory enables you to keep many […]

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Paul Cipywnyk

How Skype Helped Support a Family Editing Tradition

December 9, 2014 by Paul Cipywnyk | 3 Comments on How Skype Helped Support a Family Editing Tradition

Upon retirement from their teaching careers at the University of Saskatchewan, my late mother, Sonia Morris, and her sister, Roma Franko, embarked on a labour of love: translating Ukrainian literature into English. For many years they shared desk space in one another’s homes in Saskatoon. Roma focused on translating, and Sonia on editing. I provided […]

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