Thank you! I've so far almost exclusively done contract work for big companies, so I've gotten everything from $.005/word for scientific proofreading to $60/hr for copyediting sales materials. Trying to figure out what's reasonable to charge individuals has been a pain. XD
Maintain the Author's Voice: Good copyediting doesn’t impose the editor’s style on the writer. Work to preserve the author's unique tone and voice while ensuring clarity and correctness.
Happy Friday! Here are a few #copyediting#writing:
3) In my years of copyediting—academic books, biographies, fiction, magazines—my secret weapon has been my ability to deal with text from other languages in an English context. This includes languages I couldn't speak a sentence in. How? A bit of basic knowledge and resourcefulness goes a long way…
Lots more copyediting today. I’m enjoying the book and expanding some stuff. I swear the typos hide until I go past them spring up again. #amwriting#books#authors
ALT: a cat is playing with a toy on top of a table .
The pass after this will be to add flesh/description (I've got a lot of [describe ___] everywhere. The pass after THAT will be to ensure it all works prior to copyediting. Generally I don't have to do five thousand drafts but this was an accidental book I didn't know I needed and now here we are.
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#copyediting Sixty times out of one hundred when you type breath you meant breathe. Ninety-seven times out of one hundred when you type parent's you meant parents'. Maybe ninety-eight.
