The Subversive Copy Editor

AUGUST 20, 2021

Jack Hart  has spent five decades helping writers succeed, working shoulder-to-shoulder with journalists in newsrooms both big and small and with students at five universities. Writers who’ve worked with him have written national best sellers and won prizes that include five Pulitzers and a slew of other national awards.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Traditional publishing is not a monolithic thing. There are different kinds of publishers, and authors want different things out of a publishing deal and relationship. Georgina Cross talks about her experience with two different traditional publishers and the pros and cons of each. Welcome to the show, Georgina.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 10, 2011

Not so much functionally—there are people who can help you write cleaner prose. I hire a copy editor to clean up my posts, and while the ideas, connections, turns of phrase, overall structure and layout are mine, it still feels inauthentic. Write with a copy editor. So here’s my response. Persistence pays.

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The Creative Penn

JULY 31, 2023

In the intro, Draft2Digital acquires SelfPubBookCovers ; Different types of creative energy [ Self Publishing Advice ]; Twitter becomes X [ The Verge ]; TikTok text posts [ The Verge ]; What AI can help you do in 30 mins [ Ethan Mollick ]; Discovery Writing with ChatGPT by J. Dan Willcocks talks about his creative and business approach.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

JULY 15, 2022

Writers can’t be blamed if they’re confused! But somewhere in the last century, the shouty little mark fell out of fashion in literary prose. Editors today frown on excessive exclaiming even in mainstream fiction, outside of books for young children and comic books. How is a writer to choose? First published 1740.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

AUGUST 9, 2021

It’s standard practice for newspaper quotations from a published source to change spaces around dashes, put titles in quotes instead of italics, and in other ways accommodate old-timey typesetting limitations, but in Chicago style, quotations from written works are spelled exactly as written, not changed to fit a style guide.

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