When you’re in business as a solo editor who works directly with authors, you face competition from editing services that contract with multiple editors. Those services might charge authors lower fees than solo editors do, so you should be prepared to explain why your work is worth more. I edit for … [Read more...]
Why Spoon-Feeding Stunts Professional Growth
It’s pleasant to know smart people who will share helpful information with you. But when you depend on them too heavily, you’re being spoon-fed, and it stunts your professional growth. A large part of being an editor is the ability to track down and verify information. It’s a mental muscle that you … [Read more...]
Why Editors Are Necessary
Since the 1980s, the publishing industry has been undergoing massive changes, and for a long time most copyeditors there have been freelancers instead of employees. Newspapers have been hemorrhaging copyeditors for quite a few years now as journalism changes too. Why is this? Mostly, it’s because … [Read more...]
Editing for ESL Authors
There’s editing, and then there’s editing for authors for whom English is a second language (ESL). In the former, you’re paying attention to concerns such as spelling, syntax, grammar, the correlation of tone with the intended reading audience, topic flow, transition between topics, logic, and … [Read more...]