Elna Cain

JULY 16, 2023

They have a job board, an academy for new writers, and a publishing platform. Start by using keywords like “copywriter,” “brand copywriter,” or “copy editor” in your search bar. You have to take the time to read their blog and see how you can help them with their marketing strategy.

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Grammarly

JANUARY 31, 2024

Traditionally, in publishing, there are safeguards, Hamilton explains. You always have these lines of defense before something gets printed or goes out and gets published. We collaborate remotely most of the time, so having Grammarly has been extra helpful,” says Millie Lapidario, Senior Copy Editor.

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Shorthand Content Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

If you are looking to hire a writer for your business, either to create blogs, social media posts, white papers, or sales pages, you are in luck. Here are eight websites to hiring freelance writers, blog writers, copywriters, or any kind of professional writer you need.

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Men With Pens

JULY 1, 2012

It’s inevitable that when you’ve been blogging for a while, eventually your subscriber numbers are going to hit a slump. The underrated solution: publish your own digital flipbook. They can be embedded right into your site or blog. Have you explored digital flipbooks for your blog before? Make it exclusive.

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Smart Blogger

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Further Reading: How to Create a Writing Portfolio That’ll Wow Potential Clients walks you through everything you need to craft an online portfolio of your work, from portfolio sites like Contently to using your own blog. Want to find guest blogging opportunities (since many websites these days pay for guest posts)? Keep it simple.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Unfortunately for you and your readers, writing mistakes are like speed bumps on the blog post open highway. Darren looks happy in his bio photograph because he makes money blogging. The bespectacled reader decides to read Darren’s blog instead of another blog advice site. Your blog has inconsistencies.

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Smart Blogger

MARCH 16, 2023

So, in no particular order… Content Writer A freelance content writer creates engaging, relevant, and informative digital content in the form of blog posts, social media posts, website articles, or ebooks. If you love writing blogs, you could do content marketing. Did you know that there are many different types of editors?

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Smart Blogger

AUGUST 9, 2023

Look for existing conversations around your topics: in blog posts and comments, in a Facebook writing group, in news coverage, and more. Your outline is particularly essential if you want to submit a book proposal to agents or publishers. If you can write a blog post , you can write a book too! Writing a Book?

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Smart Blogger

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Write about fashion on your personal blog. Previous job postings include: Fashion blog writer Blog ghostwriter SEO blogger for fashion brand. Previous job postings include: Content Writer PR Coordinator Copywriter Senior Copy Editor. What’s more, the field offers a wide variety of work. My Green Closet.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 10, 2011

I was inspired to write this post after reading a piece by the Blog Tyrant a few weeks ago. A learning disability can hamper your blogging practice. I hire a copy editor to clean up my posts, and while the ideas, connections, turns of phrase, overall structure and layout are mine, it still feels inauthentic.

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Contently

JUNE 12, 2024

Here’s a quick breakdown of their differences: Content Management Systems (CMS) A CMS is a broader tool used to publish and distribute marketing content. It allows non-technical users to easily publish content across channels, edit webpages, and manage layouts (e.g., platforms like WordPress and Magento). align with overall strategy.

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ProBlogger

MAY 26, 2011

Blogging can feel like a long, hard road—especially when you’re starting out. And even when you’re a little way down that blogging road, it can still be tough. You might be spending two or three hours a day on blogging—writing content, answering comments, building up friendships on Twitter and Facebook.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

MARCH 14, 2023

After 12 years of blogging and social media, I’m retiring! I still have things to say about writing and publishing. If you don’t want to lose touch, please join my free “Writer, Editor, Helper” email newsletter list , beginning in early 2023. Writer, Editor, Helper” is aimed at general readers.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

A question that frequently comes up in writing and blogging groups I’m part of is: ‘anyone know a good editor?’. While it may seem that these four stages apply only to the editing of long-form content (like e-books and print books), it does also apply to short-form content like blog posts and articles: Stage 1: Developmental editing.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

JANUARY 16, 2023

Starting with the assumption that every book-length manuscript needs a copyeditor at some point before publication,* the question is whether a writer submitting to agents and editors can squeak by without hiring a copyeditor first. This blog will end in February! The Comprehensive Guide to Finding, Hiring, and Working with an Editor.” 

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The Subversive Copy Editor

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Most publishing contracts hold the author liable for misrepresentations and plagiarism, but even without that legal pressure, a writer, of all people, should naturally respect the intellectual property of others. Sometimes they quote from published or unpublished writings; sometimes they quote from speeches or interviews or online videos.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

APRIL 12, 2021

That’s why it’s smart to produce a generic document based on Chicago style (the style used by most US trade book publishers) that can be tweaked later if you receive more specific instructions. Compare these images of a manuscript page and a page from a published book. A manuscript page in standard format. Manuscript pages.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 6, 2011

This guest post is by Krizia of the Blog Income for Women Blueprint. At the end of August 2010, my business partner and I made the decision to document the steps I had taken to turn a blog that was earning $20 per month in AdSense money into a $500-$5000-per-month blog (all from natural traffic). Post from: ProBlogger Blog Tips.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Publishing standards (“Titles are for nonfiction,” “Children’s books usually have titles,” “They vary from one novel to another,” “Author’s call”). While this is hardly definitive, it confirms that there is a choice, even within traditional publishing. A professional editor or proofreader can help with that. Is There a Choice?

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The Subversive Copy Editor

AUGUST 18, 2022

MS Word is the publishing workhorse, more or less required for submitting to agents and editors and publishers, but it’s pricey and not always friendly. Many writers pay thousands of dollars for freelance editorial help before they publish. Getting to know your word processor better will help you love it more.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Long before a book is printed, while the text is still in manuscript form, editors at publishing houses speak in terms of word count, not page count. A picture book editor might think in terms of 0–750 words. An editor acquiring young-adult fantasy novels will consider anything from about 80,000 words and up.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

If that sounds unhelpful, read on to see what real-life published writers are doing these days. Creative License Something funny happened when I searched through published novels for examples of commas after words like “said” in front of dialogue: I couldn’t find any. She said that I should “jump in the lake.”

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 15, 2018

Yet most of the information we encounter is filtered and reinterpreted through a series of books, blogs, infographics, explainer videos , articles, and, of course, social media updates. Therefore, there’s a huge element of trust inherent in that relationship between publisher and audience. How could they?

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The Creative Penn

MAY 29, 2023

In the intro, writing and publishing across multiple genres [Ask ALLi ]; Pilgrimage and solo walking [Women Who Walk ]; My live webinars on using AI tools as an author ; Cowriting with ChatGPT: AI-Powered Storytelling by J. Show Notes Writing a book based on a blog — what needs to change? Your courses are great.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

APRIL 7, 2022

But before we declare the TOC irrelevant to printed novels, let’s take a closer look at why some current best-selling writers (or their editors or publishers) decide to include one. The copyright page acknowledges which chapters were previously published elsewhere. When a Table of Contents Is Helpful in a Novel.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

You can get examples of word counts of chapters in actual published novels here and here and here. Reedsy Blog, October 18, 2017. Chapter Length: A Veteran Editor Answers Your Writing Questions. ” Ask the Editor. Publishers Weekly , August 24, 2018. Publishers Weekly , August 24, 2018. Here’s Why.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

It’s a longstanding convention in publishing that all titles of the same kind of work (book, magazine, song, etc.) Modern publishers of the classics must decide whether to follow the writer’s original manuscript (if it exists), reproduce an early-edition styling, or impose modern styles. The publisher doesn’t use Chicago style.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

AUGUST 20, 2021

Hart is the author of  Storycraft , now in its second edition, and the newly published  Wordcraft , both available from the University of Chicago Press. This post originally appeared at  The Chicago Manual of Style Online Shop Talk blog on June 8, 2021, © University of Chicago. That indeed proved to be the case.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

JULY 15, 2022

First published 1740. This post originally appeared at  The Chicago Manual of Style Online Shop Talk blog on April 19, 2022, © University of Chicago. Indianapolis, 2021. Paretsky, Sara.    Dead Land. New York: William Morrow, 2021. Richardson, Samuel.    Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded. Tahir, Sabaa. 

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The Subversive Copy Editor

AUGUST 9, 2021

It’s standard practice for newspaper quotations from a published source to change spaces around dashes, put titles in quotes instead of italics, and in other ways accommodate old-timey typesetting limitations, but in Chicago style, quotations from written works are spelled exactly as written, not changed to fit a style guide.

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Jane Friedman

MAY 23, 2023

Cole ( @JoniBCole ) This story starts about eight years ago, with the arrival of a much anticipated email from the publishing house where the first edition of my book, Good Naked: How to Write More, Write Better, and Be Happier , was in production. This story comes to mind as I think about feedback during the publishing process.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 6, 2025

With its detailed reports on how to improve your writing and integration with writing software, ProWritingAid will help you improve your book before you send it to an editor, agent or publisher. She has a PhD in English from Columbia University, focusing on novels and publishing history. Kristen Tate shares her tips.

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Grammar Underground

JANUARY 6, 2025

But editors will. And if you put the sentence "Joe ran towards the explosion" under the nose of an editor or copy editor, chances are it'll get changed to "toward." The longer forms are so unpopular in professional publishing that they carry a subtle air of amateurishness in a lot of cases. The reason?

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