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Holdup

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Bye, design

I’ve been firmly planted on the editorial side of publishing since my early days as a volunteer writer and proofreader at my student newspaper in undergrad, but my first paid gig in publishing was in production and design: after I moved cities for my MSc, I got a job laying out the student newspaper once a week at my new school.

I absolutely loved it. Continue reading “Bye, design”

Queue

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Empathy

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Dupes

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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

(Click through to enlarge!)

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Efficiency

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