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What’s an Editor to Do?

February 19, 2013 by Anita Jenkins | 4 Comments on What’s an Editor to Do?

Virginia Durksen recently stated in her blog post The Inner Editor: Reflections on Editing as Mindful Practice that an editor must “respect the writer’s voice and suggest only those changes that serve the writer first, and then the writer’s reader.” Certainly I agree; it’s a big mistake to indiscriminately apply a standardized style so firmly […]

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Kristina Lundberg

Rising Above the Plateau: Mid-Career PD for Editors

January 22, 2013 by Kristina Lundberg | 4 Comments on Rising Above the Plateau: Mid-Career PD for Editors

Every fall I struggle with the professional development plan I’m required to submit to my employer. My first decade in editing was brimming with formal and informal professional development, and my professional growth was steep. Fourteen years into my career, how can I rise above the PD plateau and continue to grow? Of course, in editing there’s […]

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A Changing Role for Editors

December 12, 2012 by Rosemary Shipton | 3 Comments on A Changing Role for Editors

It’s not all that long ago that editors were invisible or, if their presence was recognized, dismissed as nitpickers or as dangerous meddlers in the creative writing process. “Let’s Kill All the Copyeditors,” ran one newspaper headline. Renowned professor Jacques Barzun railed against the errors that “tone deaf” editors introduced to his texts in his […]

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Lights, Camera, Action: A Book Editor in the Land of Cinema

December 4, 2012 by Melva McLean | Leave a Comment

The first in a series on working as an editor in the film industry. In 1966, my older sister snuck me into the Windsor Theatre to see an R-rated movie, A Man and a Woman, starring Anouk Aimée as a script girl and Jean-Louis Trintignant as a car racer. After that, whenever someone asked me […]

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