#copy-editing

Hi! I’m Brock, a trans man who’s saving up for a medical procedure that my insurance won’t cover. To do this, I’m opening commissions!

I do copy-editing, such as fixes to spelling, grammar, punctuation, and consistency, for 3$ per 250 words.

I also write fiction, non-fiction, short stories, essays and the like for 1$ every 100 words.

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Currently I’m a freelance editor looking for work. I have history copy-editing for a newspaper, proofreading books and short stories before publishing, SEO copy-writing/editing for a company website, and peer editing for University.

Please share this! It's not a very traditional way of finding work, but Tumblr widens my reach for prospective employers and hopefully someone looking for an editor or proofreader will see this. Booklr, I’m looking at you.

I’m working on my revision of “The Dragon Lord” for Venture Press.

Mostly it’s the usual tightening of dialogue from prepared speeches to realistic conversation, the removal of ellipses and en-dashes which younger Morwood used by the unnecessary bushel - and in this book, some heavy rewriting to remove Tuckerisations of character and quote that not merely break the Fourth Wall but shatter it.

I’d included Anne McCaffrey as a fairly identifiable character (she had just introduced me to @dduane, with all that followed after. There were quotes, all used with permission, I still have the letters, from “Dragonflight”, “Stormbringer”, “Bridge of Birds” and “Conan the Conqueror”. All of this seemed like a good idea at the time – they make sense in context, and certainly nobody objected either then or since – but older Morwood thinks they have no place in a much more rounded secondary world, so out they go.

(This is a bit like using German and Italian HEMA terminology in fantasy: the moves may be authentic, but if there isn’t a Germany or Italy in that fantasy world it’s best to think up other names for the moves.)

I’m also correcting continuity errors that have been in print for 30+ years (yes, really – unnoticed by me, my agent, and at last count two English-language editors and four foreign-language ones…)

Mostly it’s objects and people in two places at the same time, or at least within a few paragraphs of each other and no linking action to indicate how they got there, but today I’ve reached the bit in “Dragon Lord” where Gemmel the wizard Summons an icedrake near the end of a chapter, uses it to defeat his enemies and makes his escape.

End of chapter. Next chapter is at a later time in a completely different location.

There were a couple of paragraphs describing how Gemmel did the Summoning of the icedrake, but there isn’t a single line describing how he Dismissed it. I’ve just done a Search through the entire book and Gemmel never Dismissed it.

That icedrake, like a supernatural stove, tap or faucet, has been “left running” in six languages since 1986…

So if any test readers take you to task for significantly opening a door and forgetting to shut it, look on the bright side: that’s an error which has been caught. And rest assured that professionals have done something similar. They still do…

The first question I ask any client is the same: “Would you like me to use Track Changes, or just make the changes without tracking?” So far, one client has asked me not to use it. Most people want to see all the work I’ve done, and to be honest, I want to see it, too. It’s a lot easier for me to keep track.

Track Changes is a Word function. If used, backspacing, the letters you backspace will still appear, but turn red and have a line scored across them. if you add anything, it will also be red and underlined. You can also use an “Accept all changes” function, which will automatically make all the corrections, deleting the words and punctuation crossed out and leaving the corrections to look like the rest of the text. Track Changes allows me to see what I’ve corrected, and it proves the work I’ve put into the document for my client. All of it says to the client “Here’s all the changes I made”.

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