Today, a topic everyone can relate to! For when you think about it, working with difficult writers is no different from working with difficult people. (Aside from the writing part.)
Subversive Copy Editor Podcast 5: Editing Difficult Writers
[07:15 min.]
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These podcasts were adapted from material I first presented in the Copyediting audio conference “The Subversive Copy Editor Takes Your Questions,” December 10, 2009 (© 2009, Copyediting), with the kind permission of the publishers; and from my own book, The Subversive Copy Editor, 2nd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016).
And if you’re bothered by the copyeditor vs. copy editor issue, you can read about it here. (I’ll just assume you aren’t bothered by the singular they.)
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