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...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.
Phantasmagorically experiencing editing
Not every editor is gifted with the most important learning in his first ever project. Here I am, the gifted.