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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...
Vivek Kumar
May 20, 2021
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...
Garima Syal
Nov 24, 2020
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...
Suraj Mylapore
Nov 18, 2020
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...
Elliot Linzer
Apr 5, 2020
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...
Mark Farrell
Sep 4, 2019
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...
Yateendra Joshi
Apr 5, 2019
What type of business is yours?
So, now that you have decided to take the road less travelled and are ready to take the plunge into the world of freelancing, there are...
Raji Balachander
Apr 2, 2019
National Association of Independent Writers and Editors
Mission The National Association of Independent Writers and Editors (NAIWE) is a professional association for writers and editors. We...
April Michelle Davis
Feb 16, 2019
Errors Copyeditors Cannot Leave in Their Resume
The first of a series of tips for freelancers in the ICF Facebook group was this: “Do use a functional resume”. And another thought...
Murugaraj Shanmugam
Feb 15, 2019
History of the Founding of Christian Editor Network LLC
Kathy Ide’s vision to create a community for Christian editors began in 2004 with the launch of The Christian PEN: Proofreaders and...
Jenne Acevedo
Dec 3, 2018
