Thinking Fiction: Lazy Writing, Part 1 — Something to Combat, but Sometimes...
By Carolyn Haley Many of us write lazily when composing our letters, reports, and books. It’s easier to turn ideas into words when we’re relaxed and nothing inhibits the flow. Creative writing,...
View ArticleSticking to Your “Rate Principles” … Essential, but Not Always Easy
By Elaine R. Firestone, ELS “Rate principles” is a term I coined for that point when you say, “This is my limit for how low I’ll go in my rates for a given type of work,” and mean it and follow it....
View ArticleLazy Writing, Part 2 — Something to Combat, but Sometimes Appreciate
By Carolyn Haley For Part 1 of this article, go to https://americaneditor.wordpress.com/2019/02/15/thinking-fiction-lazy-writing-part-1-something-to-combat-but-sometimes-appreciate/ Extra padding...
View ArticleBook Indexes: Multivolume Indexes
Ælfwine Mischler Last year, I had the pleasure of indexing the third and final volume of a history of Egyptology while creating a combined index of volumes 1–3. (I confess that I have a bit of a soft...
View ArticleStorycraft for Novelists and Their Editors: Resources to Help Authors Get It...
By Carolyn Haley Most of the clients in my editing business are indie authors. The majority of them are “newbies” who have completed their first novels and are not sure what to do next. Without...
View ArticleOn the Basics: Finding joy in what we do
By Ruth E. Thaler-Carter, Owner, An American Editor Decorating/cleaning maven Marie Kondo hit the headlines recently when she was (somewhat mis)quoted as saying that no home needs more than 30 books....
View ArticleHow Not to Network
By Ælfwine Mischler With spring weather comes conference season and plenty of conferences for indexers, editors, and communications professionals of all types. For those of us who are freelancers,...
View ArticleEditTools 9 with Time & Project Management Macros Is Now Available
By Richard Adin It has taken nearly two years to create the newest release of EditTools, but EditTools 9 is now available (http://www.wordsnsync.com/download.php). New features in EditTools 9 include:...
View ArticleWhy Do You Edit?
By Daniel Heuman When I present at editing conferences, I’ve started asking the audience one question: Why do you edit? The answers I get back are amazing and diverse; for example: I like helping...
View ArticleIt’s All About the Benjamins! EditTools’ Time Tracker (Part V)
By Richard Adin, Founder, An American Editor In It’s All About the Benjamins! EditTools’ Time Tracker (Part I), I discussed the importance of collecting data; in Part II, I discussed Time Trackers’...
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