Editing – EAT SLEEP EDIT REPEAT

Reassuring your editorial clients

Knowing enough about what you're doing but always being willing to learn more is essential for editors. Yes, there are some general rules of good editorial practice to learn, but…

A bit of fun…

Elevating editing

Editors are often practical people, and this goes double for editors who also run their own businesses. We worry about how to do things. How to automate tasks to speed…

Stealth marketing

Most editorial business owners need to do some sort of marketing to keep things going. Even those who claim mainly to rely on word of mouth to bring work in…

Back to school

Anyone else got that back to school feeling? Yesterday I drove home from my last mini camping trip of the summer holidays against the alarming backdrop of leaves beginning to…

CPD…

A week of reflection, planning and writing

I was fortunate enough to be able to take last week off to concentrate on editorial CPD, and then a fiction writing course. First I joined six friends and editorial…

The economics of working with publishers

One piece of wisdom that is often repeated among freelance editors is that publishers don't pay well, and the only way to make a good income is to graduate from…

Building up, not shouting down

I don't know about you, but when I publish anything – blog post, email, tweet – it is often with trepidation, and after some soul-searching, and much reading and re-reading. Sometimes…

What is good writing?

As an editor and a reader, I hope I can recognise good writing. There are few things as exciting as that moment when I realise I am in the hands of someone…

A bit of fun…

The answerless editor

Editors love answers. They spend countless hours tussling over the right answer to things, with each other and on their own, even if in the end they conclude that the…

Editing in times of darkness

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I try not to do politics on the blog, and for that matter I don’t usually swear here either. So if these things might bother you, please look away now…