Making choices: Mindfulness in difficult times
Ayesha Chari How do you edit when you’re distracted? What do you do when you’re restless? I tend to stare out the window. A lot. Or...
I found my calling as an editor—but it was a long and arduous journey
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. —Lord Tennyson The thing about perseverance is that it is never futile. The last five...
The scholarly copy editor
What does a copy editor do? While there’s a long, boring answer to that question—one that involves innumerable mechanics and rules to...
The “prenatal” history of the Editorial Freelancers Association
This blog was originally published in the EFA newsletter The Freelancer in February 2020. Looking at the current EFA, it is hard to...
An American Editor in India: Bridging the Gap Between Different Versions of the English Language
Hello from the United States to my colleagues in India! I am an American editor who has had the good fortune of visiting your beautiful...
A resource copy editors should check every day
The web and the print have no dearth of resources (Katharine O’Moore-Klopf’s ‘Copyeditors’ Knowledge Base’ lists hundreds of them and...