Posts Tagged ‘ editing ’

Ooh ooh, Hire Me!

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January 26, 2010
Ooh ooh, Hire Me!

I'm hiring myself out on the side! If you, your publication or organization, or someone you know and respect is looking for a killer writer or speaker who has never actually killed anyone with words (so far as I know), please consider contracting me. I'm smart, I'm good with the words, and I can meet...
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Why Editors Should Rule the World

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October 7, 2008

Editors should rule the world because good ones prevent smart people from looking like idiots. I live with an engineer. In our house are professional and academic journals that do such painfully awful things to the English language I'll find myself tempted to phone up a publisher to offer to take a red pen to...
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On Editing: Q & A on Vision

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June 23, 2008

I'm in a bit of a cobwebby state, so I thought I'd take a break from trying unsuccessfully to get good work done to answer some questions that came up in response to my first post on editing. Then I'll feel all articulate and like I got something done, and will therefore certainly return...
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On Editing: Vision

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June 15, 2008

Although I've written professionally for a few years, it's editing that is my true love. It's impossible for me to figure how much my experiences writing books, blogs and magazine articles have influenced my editing work, or how my fairly natural inclination to edit has affected my writing. There aren't too many editors in...
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