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Think Write: A Workshop for Authors and Writers
What it takes to get a work published? The answer to this question has, sadly, never been straightforward. Editor’s Essentials organized Think Write 2019, an interactive one-day workshop providing authors, aspiring authors, and writers an opportunity to learn to distinguish themselves in a highly competitive market.
Be prepared to be thrown away
What if, as a freelance editor, you are thrown away? An unresponsive author, pending payment, lack of recognition, maybe all of them! What should you do?
Dead Giveaways That an Author Is Indian
Is “updation” even a word? Is the antonym for “postpone” “prepone”? Read on to find how Indian English has added some spice to the English language.
Can the Internet Impede the Skills of Copy Editors?
Slow and steady changes are not recognized but can result in a compromise in the core skills
Feedback: giving gracefully and receiving gratefully
Feedback in the workplace is an essential component. The openness of a disciple and the grace of a guru will make this process an excellent experience.
Feedback, the most dreaded word
Feedback hurts, brings the morale down, and even humiliates. But feedback is a mechanism that will put us on the right path and help us bring out the best in each of us.
What’s wrong? Correcting a wrong modifier
Whether you are a writer or an editor, when you add phrases, always ensure that they modify the appropriate part of the sentence.
Did you know these are editing myths?
Rules might change, myths might vanish, and only the minds which are open to learning will survive.
A Copyeditor’s Guide Through Stephen King’s Tool Box
Author Stephen King’s uncle had insisted on carrying a large and heavy tool box yet the only tool that was needed to fix the problem was a screwdriver. Can you guess why? Read on!
The most underrated villain of copy editing
What is that one type of error that may go unnoticed even under otherwise careful eyes, but can be very embarrassing when noticed, both to the author and, obviously, to the one who edited the manuscript? Read on…
What’s your story?
Editor’s Essentials invites you to share it with the editing fraternity. After all, a story is to be told, an idea is worth spreading, and editors are the ones who never shy away from seeking advice.
Books I love: Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Punctuation can get tricky especially when it comes to deciphering what the author intends to say and what strokes or dots need to be used to enhance the structure and meaning of a sentence. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, by Lynne Truss, we discover how even the slightest of punctuation slipups can turn fatal!
The tale continues…
Localization may be defined as the efforts to reach out to end-users and most importantly engage them. And there are various degrees of localization, from standardizing spelling to translation. Want to know more? Read on.
Greetings on US National Grammar Day
Celebrations are a coming together of groups of people with the common goal of commemorating or valuing something. Why can’t grammar be that thing?
A Tale of Two Countries: British Vs American English
One of the first things a copyeditor would learn is about the differences between the British English and the American English. This post takes a quick look into the important differences between the two.
The Psychology of Editing
Not many would link editing and psychology. Of course, it is nearly impossible to evaluate the psychology of editors since the person sitting behind every keyboard or holding red pen can be very diverse. So, contrary to the general opinion, putting editors in a box labeled ‘nerd’ may be difficult.
Continuous Learning for Copyeditors
Without the external stimuli – which is nothing but continuous learning – the potential editor only remains that way – a potential editor, not realizing their great editing skills.
Welcoming our new team member
We are immensely happy to welcome Sanjana Keerthi to the Editor's Essentials family. Sanjana is a language enthusiast who joined the management team in a publishing company after having obtained her degrees in Psychology and Business Administration. How she got into...
Crossword 07 on sentences
This week’s Editor’s Essentials Sunday Crossword is all about sentences. Each clue is a “sentence” that stands as an example of a technique. Identify the technique and that’s the answer to the clue.
Crossword 06 Miscellaneous
This week’s Editor’s Essentials Sunday Crossword has moved from “beginner to intermediate to “intermediate to advanced”. Hope you will like the crossword.
Crossword 05 Miscellaneous
Happy Sunday to you all! Here is the fifth edition of Editor's Essentials Sunday Crossword. This week's edition is not specific and covers various arms of publishing. Level: Beginner to intermediate {{CODE_CW_005}} Answers to this week's crossword will be available...
Crossword 04 on Verbs
Happy Sunday to you all! It's exciting to bring out the fourth edition of Editor's Essentials Sunday Crossword. This week's edition is all about verbs. Level: Beginner to intermediate {{CODE_CW_004}} Answers to this week's crossword will be available next week....
Welcome to our new home
Welcome to Editor's Essentials. Today, on this Teachers Day in India, the diminutive Editor's Essentials blog is stepping into its own home. Welcome to www.editorsessentials.com. Subscribe, if you have not already, and show your love and support by sharing this...
Editors’ Conclave 2018 – Sessions that stayed: Part 2 of the keynote address by Dr. Selvin
Is editing really dead? No, not yet. Will editing be dead and forgotten? Maybe, maybe not. It's more of an answer based on your belief system. What Dr. Selvin delivered in his keynote address may not be the elixir for editing life, but is a prescription for how...
Editors’ Conclave 2018 – Sessions that stayed: Part 1 of the keynote address by Dr. Selvin
Nothing has caught the imagination of humankind than death. Different people approached death at different levels of understanding: denying it, defying it, delaying it, designing it…. While each of us believes that we are not going to die tomorrow, we know that there...
Editors’ Conclave 2018 – Sessions that stayed with me: An editor’s journey
The Editors’ Conclave at Chennai was the perfect place to connect with people we only knew through the Indian Copyeditors’ Forum (ICF) on Facebook. As a member of ICF and as the one who follows the posts of the veterans in this field, I was excited to sign up for this...
Editors’ Conclave 2018 – Sessions that stayed with me: Financial planning for editors
As many of you know, the first-ever editors' conclave was recently organized (in Feb 2018). My good friend Venkatesh and Chandra, whom I met and befriended during the conclave, wrote detailed notes on how it happened and how it felt. (I would love to link Chandra's...
Comma, the Commander
Commas are tiny, versatile, omnipotent commanders of the punctuation weaponry, helping us mortal editors who wage an everyday Kurukshetra against the evil of loss-of-meaning, the Incomprehensibility.
The find-and-replA/Ce menA/Ce continues…
I talked about it already (here). Without doubt, the find-and-replace option is a handy tool for a copy editor. Here is an example of another instance when the tool was used thoughtlessly. Long live copyediting!
Setting Up MS Word for Editing – Global
Microsoft Word is almost the undisputed king as writing and editing platform. There is more to this than meets the eye. Word offers fantastic features that can help editors make editing more fun. This post is about making some global settings for Word, irrespective of the project.