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Copyediting and Proofreading For Dummies
Copyediting and Proofreading For Dummies | Suzanne Gilad
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Turn your knack for language into a lucrative career Must-know techniques and resources for maximizing your accuracy and speed Interested in becoming a copyeditor or proofreader? Want to know more about what each job entails? This friendly guide helps you position yourself for success. Polish your skills, build a winning rsum and land the job you've always wanted. Books, magazines, Web sites, corporate documents - find out how to improve any type of publication and make yourself indispensable to writers, editors, and your boss. Balance between style and rules Master the art of the query Use proofreader symbols Edit and proof electronic documents Build a solid freelancing career
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GingerAntics
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🤣😂🤣 My fellow editing nerds will appreciate this!!!
#SarahWoodbury posted this on her FB. 💙🤍💙 I think I‘m going to start using these. 🤣😂🤣
#edit #proofread #proofreadersmarks

rabbitprincess Ahaha horribly wrong font 😂😂😂 I am in the habit of adding comments to my edits, sometimes addressing them to my future self. “Future RP check the abbreviations again.” Less helpful are the ones where I wrote “Hmmmmm” several days before and can‘t figure out why 😂😂 5y
GingerAntics @rabbitprincess oh my god, I‘ve done that. If I edit on my iPad I can actually “write” on the draft. Then I circle stuff and I can‘t remember why later. 🤣😂🤣 So glad its not just me. 5y
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mom2bugnbee This. Is. Amazing. 5y
CarolynM 😂😂😂 5y
batsy I love this! 5y
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The.Intentional.Reader
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Proofreading is important

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BeansPage
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This is still funny 😂😂😂

BarbaraTheBibliophage 🍌 🍌🍌🍌🍌 5y
BeansPage @BarbaraTheBibliophage IKR? Now let's count together.... 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 5y
BarbaraTheBibliophage 🤪🤣🤣🤪 (edited) 5y
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MrBook 😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #LitsyHumor 5y
JulietReads 😦 5y
alisiakae 😂😂 5y
Crazeedi Wow, 🤣🙄 5y
BookwormAHN 😹😹😹 5y
Soubhiville 😂🤣😂 🤦‍♀️ 5y
la_rose_noire 😂🤣😂🤣🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌 5y
shellleigh33 🤣🤣 5y
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Martyn_J_Pass
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CALLING ALL LITTENS!!!!

My dear friend and fellow Indie author, Suzy, has just finished her debut novel and was looking for a couple of beta readers to help her out. Her novel, Somebody To You, is a sassy British romance tale and although I‘m biased I think it‘s great. Would anyone be willing to read it in its raw form and give her some honest feedback?

Smrloomis Hmm, I‘d volunteer but I don‘t read #romance so I‘d probably not be very helpful. But there are lots of people I follow who post about romance so hopefully you‘ll get some volunteers. Besides being British is there anything else to categorize it? Like M/M or historical or something? Just thinking off the top of my head 😂 5y
Martyn_J_Pass @Smrloomis I know what you mean - it‘s not my normal read either, hence the call for help lol. I‘m ashamed to say I don‘t know what category M/M is 😂 It‘s contemporary romance, woman falls for man etc... 5y
Smrloomis @Martyn_J_Pass I hear you. Everything I know I learned from Litsy! Apparently M/M is for a male couple, but that‘s all I know. Hopefully someone with more expertise will be willing to help 🤞🏽 5y
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Martyn_J_Pass @Smrloomis Thanks for clearing that up and yeah, I‘m currently in the school of Litsy too when it comes to this stuff! Thanks again! 5y
OwlReader I‘ll see what I can do! 5y
Martyn_J_Pass @OwlReader That would be brilliant! Don‘t hesitate to get in touch! 5y
Reggie I would love to, just tell me what I need to do. 5y
Martyn_J_Pass @OwlReader @Reggie Can I email you Suzy‘s PDF then? If you send me an address I‘ll pass it on and she‘ll send you the file. 5y
Reggie Sure, it‘s reglara79@yahoo.com 5y
Martyn_J_Pass @Reggie Should be on its way to you now. I‘ve sent my copy now that I‘ve finished going over the spelling etc. I‘ve probable missed a few lol 5y
Martyn_J_Pass @OwlReader It‘s on its way to you! Thanks again! 5y
OwlReader @Reggie Thank you! I hope you don‘t mind if I delete the comment, I just don‘t want other people to email me.. 😥 5y
Martyn_J_Pass @OwlReader Not at all!! I don‘t blame you, I‘d do the same lol 5y
OwlReader @Martyn_J_Pass Ok, thanks for understanding! I‘ll comment as soon as lm done with the book. 5y
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MrBook
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😂😂😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #LitsyHumor

HotMessJess There* they‘re* their* 6y
Oryx 😂yup 6y
MelissaSue81 Omg. So true!!! 6y
BookBabe 😂😂 Truth! 6y
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Posh_Salad..AKA..LazyLimaLife
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This position needs to be filled ASAP!

Reggie Lol 7y
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melissanorr
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Um, the character's name is John... oops.

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melissanorr
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So is flollowing like following but with some additional flailing? I know the newspaper business is having money problems but surely Bezos can afford some copyeditors. #copyeditingisnotoptional

Sace 😡 I see typos, misspellings and incorrect word usage more than I would like. I'm assuming it's the pressure of having to stay ahead in this crazy 24/7 news cycle. 7y
melissanorr That might be part of it @RestlessFickleBookSlut but the Post very publicly laid off more than half of the editing department several years ago so I think it's more about not wanting to spend money on it. Which I find completely unacceptable just like I do with book publishers. 7y
Sace @melissanorr Ohhhh. I didn't know that. I agree. That's unacceptable. Fact checkers and copy editors are extremely important. I understand that we are a capitalist nation, but sometimes it feels like we've sold our souls and minds just for the sake of getting the biggest profit. Not just *a* profit, but ALL THE PROFIT. (I'm being hyperbolic maybe, but boy I feel that way.) 7y
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