#copy editors

Our pal Linda Holmes has a lovely remembrance of Washington Post copy editor Bill Walsh, who died yesterday of complications of bile duct cancer.

Copy editors are quality junkies; there is nothing else to drive them. Their names will not appear on the writing they make better, they are increasingly overburdened almost everywhere, and if they are imagined by the average reader at all, it's often as nitpicky technicality cops.

What a great copy editor is instead, and what Bill Walsh was to me, is both that exacting crafter of print at the atomic level and a final eye for good sense.

Read her full piece here.

Although writing a book is largely done in solitude, there are numerous occasions when we seek the input and wisdom of others. In the early rough draft stages, in the later stages when the work is being presented to a publisher or polished for self-publishing, we call on a range of people who help the book reach its full potential and satisfy its audience. Beta readers, subject experts, editors,…

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Some people have asked me to write about my editing experiences so here goes: I haven’t edited a book for another writer since Amit Bobrov’s The Journals of Raymond Brooks. Editing is a marketplace starved of money but I am determined to find more work to fund my writing. Consequently, a few days ago I joined an editing group on LinkedIn and posted a link to my editing page and asked for…

New Post has been published on https://kidsviral.info/whoops-newspapers-mock-tastic-headline-typo-suggests-trumps-going-soft-on-n-korea/

WHOOPS! Newspaper's mock-tastic headline typo suggests Trump's 'going soft' on N. Korea

Yesterday, President Trump threatened North Korea with “fire and fury” if the rogue nation continues to seek nuclear weapons and threatening the U.S. One newspaper in Maine changed the feel slightly:

A concise argument for copy editors. pic.twitter.com/n6yuGkIqb3

— Naomi Schalit (@Naomi_Schalit) August 9, 2017

It’s real, and it’s spectacular:

Today's Kennebec Journal front page, Wednesday, August 9, 2017 pic.twitter.com/PPV9TTTDmT

— Kennebec Journal (@KJ_Online) August 9, 2017

#SlowClap

The copy editors at the Kennebec Journal have an innovative solution to the North Korea problem. pic.twitter.com/0UN3AINSRw

— Steve Robinson (@BigSteve207) August 9, 2017

A full front page image: pic.twitter.com/we2Zx59cXJ

— pdxusr (@pdxusr) August 9, 2017

Oh, "Furries"! That's different. What a relief.

— chestmedicine (@chestmedicine) August 9, 2017

The Battle of Pawyang would be remembered for generations https://t.co/JhpQm4Mq9l

— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) August 9, 2017

tbh i do not think one furry will be able to stop north korea well unless it is chuck norris oh man now i have an idea for a movie https://t.co/twhSo83ppQ

— Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) August 9, 2017

Fire and Furry is going to be the name of a really shitty CGI kids' movie about intergalactic cats next summer, isn't it? https://t.co/Ylvo0T6oJO

— Eric Michael Garcia (@EricMGarcia) August 9, 2017

Could be cat-astrophic https://t.co/AaqlnpfoiQ

— Brett LoGiurato (@BrettLoGiurato) August 9, 2017

Unleash the bunnies of destruction… https://t.co/L1xNA2PGk9

— Stephen McGann (@StephenMcGann) August 9, 2017

This headline typo suggests that Trump is going soft on NK. https://t.co/KqjHT4eBbj

— James Pindell (@JamesPindell) August 9, 2017

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