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I’m blogging today at Editor’s Corner, at The Chicago Manual of Style Shop Talk blog:
How does a professional copyeditor know when it’s time to retire? Freelancers especially may be tempted to sail on past the age at which in-house editors are encouraged to put down the red pencil. But in either case, how long is too long? Here are some questions to consider.
Photo: Jean Le Tavernier, via Wikimedia Commons.
When work and deadlines pile up, copyeditors freak out. But as I always say, there should be no crying in copyediting. Here are my best tips for taking the pressure off yourself.
And it’s my last podcast! Let’s celebrate with a cocktail instead of caffeine.
Subversive Copy Editor Podcast 7: The Zen of Copyediting
[06:50 min.]
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There are also transcripts.
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.)
