Hey editors, what does your online portfolio look like? Do you include before and after examples of your editing work? Why not take a page from Stephen King’s playbook and show what somebody else’s work looks like after you’ve gotten done with it?
In King’s book, On Writing, he throws in a few pages from...
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by Joe Wallace
Believe it or not, new editors, your editing skills are often closely tied to your management skills. Much depends on the nature of your editing job but one thing’s for sure–editing someone else’s work requires the same amount of tact and the interpersonal skills required to be an effective leader.
If you’re one...
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It’s one thing to make the edits to someone else’s copy…it’s quite another to give them feedback about the changes you’ve made. In my experience, hitting the writer with a newspaper and calling them a moron is quite satisfying, but seldom ever productive. So how do you train a writer to stop abusing the...
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