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Style sheet

Teachable moment or red flag? You decide! (Click through to enlarge.)

Want to learn more about style sheets? Check out these old posts:

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I’m too texty

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Dedicated to Tanya Gold and Heather E. Saunders.

Want to know more about #StetWalk? Check out Grammar Girl Mignon Fogarty’s primer on it.

I, novice

Four-frame cartoon. Two editors sit with laptops at a table. Frame 1: The bearded editor says, “Huh.” Bespectacled editor says, “What?” Frame 2: Bearded editor says, “Just noticed that my invoice template says I-N-O-V-I-C-E.” Bespectacled editor says, “Uh-oh. How long have you used that template?” Frame 3: Bearded editor says, “Since I launched my business! Where finding and correcting typos is LITERALLY MY JOB.” Frame 4: Bearded editor says, “What do you call Muphry’s Law at the macro, existential level?” Bespectacled editor replies, “I think it might toggle back to Murphy at that point.”

Brave enough to share your* most embarrassing editing goofs? Head over to Twitter.

*or [cough] a colleague’s

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Summertime

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First impressions matter a lot, according to the psychological concept of anchoring, a cognitive bias that describes our tendency to rely too much on the first piece of information we’re given. Continue reading “The trade-book trap”

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Crunch

Four frames in a cycle: 1. Editor sits at desk, working. 2. Editor shakes uncontrollably from hypoglycemia. 3. Editor messily crams food into her mouth with both hands. 4. Editor frantically drinks a caffeinated beverage. Repeat.

My life for the past month.

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Category: Freelancing

Style sheet

I’m too texty

I, novice

Summertime

Efficiency

Vibes

Referral

The trade-book trap

App

Crunch